1967, shall be withheld by reason of any action taken pursuant to a State statute which prevents such State from complying with the requirements resulting from the amendment made by subsection (a). TITLE XII-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 1201. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act to carry out the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 shall be used to provide payments, assistance, or services, in any form, with respect to any individual who is convicted, in any Federal, State, or local court of competent jurisdiction, of inciting, promoting, or carrying on a riot, or any group activity resulting in material damage to property or injury to persons, found to be in violation of Federal, State, or local laws designed to protect persons or property in the community concerned. National Defense Education Act of 1958 (P.L. 85-864) AN ACT To strengthen the national defense and to encourage and assist in the expansion and improvement of educational programs to meet critical national needs; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles and sections according to the following table of contents, may be cited as the "National Defense Education Act of 1958". TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 101. Findings and declaration of policy. Sec. 102. Federal control of education prohibited. Sec. 103. Definitions. TITLE II-LOANS TO STUDENTS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION Sec. 201. Appropriated authorized. Sec. 202. Allotments to States. Sec. 203. Payment of Federal capital contributions. Sec. 204. Conditions of agreements. Sec. 205. Terms of loans. Sec. 206. Distributions of assets from student loan funds. Sec. 207. Loans to institutions. Sec. 208. Payments to cover reductions in amounts of loans. Sec. 209. Administrative provisions. TITLE III-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR STRENGTHING INSTRUCTION IN SCIENCE MATHEMATICS, MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES, AND OTHER CRITICAL SUBJECTS Sec. 301. Appropriations authorized. Sec. 302. Allotments to States. Sec. 303. State plans. Sec. 304. Payments to States. Sec. 305. Loans to nonprofit private schools. TITLE IV-NATIONAL DEFENSE FELLOWSHIPS Sec. 401. Appropriations authorized. Sec. 402. Number of fellowships. Sec. 403. Award of fellowships and approval of institutions. Sec. 404. Fellowship stipends. Sec. 405. Fellowship conditions. TITLE V-GUIDANCE, COUNSELLING, AND TESTING; IDENTIFICATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF ABLE STUDENTS PART A-STATE PROGRAMS Sec. 501. Appropriations authorized. Sec. 502. Allotments to States. Sec. 503. State plans. Sec. 504. Payments to States. Sec. 505. Definitions. PART B-COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE TRAINING INSTITUTES Sec. 511. Authorization. TITLE VI-LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Sec. 601. Language and area centers. Sec. 603. Appropriations authorized. TITLE VII-RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES, AND RELATED MEDIA FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES PART A-RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION Sec. 701. Functions of the Commissioner. Sec. 702. Grants-in-aid; contracts. PART B-DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON NEW EDUCATIONAL MEDIA Sec. 731. Functions of the Commissioner. PART C GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 761. Establishment of the advisory committee. Sec. 762. Special personnel. Sec. 763. Appropriations authorized. TITLE VIII-AREA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS TITLE IX-SCIENCE INFORMATION PROGRAMS Sec. 901. Functions of the service. Sec. 902. Science information council. Sec. 903. Authority for certain grants and contracts. Sec. 904. Appropriations authorized. TITLE X-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Sec. 1001. Administration. Sec. 1002. Advisory committees. Sec. 1003. Exemption from conflict-of-interest laws of members of advisory committees or information council. Sec. 1004. Administration of State plans. Sec. 1005. Judicial review. Sec. 1006. Method of payment. Sec. 1007. Administrative appropriations authorized. Sec. 1008. Allotments to Territories and possessions. Sec. 1009. Improvement of statistical services of Staff educational agencies. TITLE XI-INSTITUTES Sec. 1101. Authorization of institutes. Sec. 1102. Stipends. Title I-General Provisions FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 101. The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women. The present emergency demands that additional and more adequate education opportunities be made available. The defense of this Nation depends upon the mastery of modern techniques developed from complex scientific principles. It depends as well upon the discovery and development of new principles, new techniques, and new knowledge. We must increase our efforts to identify and educate more of the talent of our Nation. This requires programs that will give assurance that no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need; will correct as rapidly as possible the existing imbalances in our educational programs. The Congress reaffirms the principle and declares that the States and local communities have and must retain control over and primary responsibility for public education. The national interest requires, however, that the Federal Government give assistance to education for programs which are important to our defense. To meet the present educational emergency requires additional effort at all levels of government. It is therefore the purpose of this Act to provide substantial assistance in various forms to individuals, and to States and their subdivisions, in order to insure trained manpower of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the national defense needs of the United States. ize FEDERAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION PROHIBITED SEC. 102. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorany department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system. DEFINITIONS SEC. 103. As used in this Act— (a) The term "State" means a State, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands except that as used in sections 302 and 502, such term does not include Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands. (b) The term "institution of higher education" means an educational institution in any State which (1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such certificate, (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education, (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, (4) is a public or other nonprofit institution, and (5) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association approved by the Commissioner for this purpose or, if not so accredited, (A) is an institution with respect to which the Commissioner has determined that there is satisfactory assurance, considering the resources available to the institution, the period of time, if any, during which it has operated, the effort it is making to meet accreditation standards, and the purpose for which this determination is being made, that the institution will meet the accreditation standards of such an agency or association within a reasonable time, or (B) is an institution whose credits are accepted on transfer by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as it transferred from an institution so accredited. For purposes of title II, such term includes any school of nursing as defined in subsection (1) of this section, and also includes any school which provides not less than a one-year program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation and which meets the provisions of clauses (1), (2), (4), and (5). If the Commissioner determines that a particular category of such schools does not meet the requirements of clause (5) because there is no nationally recognized accrediting agency or association qualified to accredit schools in such category, he shall, pending the establishment of such an accrediting agency or association, appoint an advisory committee, composed of persons specially qualified to evaluate training provided by schools in such category, which shall (i) prescribe the standards of content, scope, and quality which must be met in order to qualify schools in such category to participate in the student loan program under title II, and (ii) determine whether particular schools not meeting the requirements of clause (5) meet those standards. For purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered." (c) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Education. (d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (e) The term "State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the governor or by State law. (f) The term "school-age population" means that part of the population which is between the ages of five and seventeen, both inclusive, and such school-age population for the several States shall be determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the population between 74-050 0-67-29 such ages for the most recent year for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. (g) The term "elementary school" means a school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law or, if such school is not in any State, as determined by the Commissioner. (h) The term "secondary school" means a school which provides secondary education, as determined under State law or, if such school is not in any State, as determined by the Commissioner, except that it does not include any education provided beyond grade 12. For the purposes of sections 301, through 304, the term "secondary school" may include a public junior college, as determined under State law or, if such school is not in any State, as determined by the Commissioner. (i) The term "public" as applied to any school or institution includes a school or institution of any agency of the United States, except that no such school or institution shall be eligible to receive any grant, loan, or other payment under this Act. (j) The term "nonprofit", as applied to a school or institution, means a school or institution owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and, for the purposes of part A of title V, includes a school of any agency of the United States. (k) The term "local educational agency" means a board of education or other legally constituted local school authority having_administrative control and direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or political subdivision in a State, or any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary or secondary school. (1) The term "school of nursing" means a public or other nonprofit collegiate or associate degree of school of nursing. (m) The term "collegiate school of nursing" means a department, division, or other administrative unit in a college or university which provides primarily or exclusively an accredited program of education in professional nursing and allied subjects leading to the degree of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of nursing, or to an equivalent degree, or to a graduate degree in nursing. (n) The term "associate degree school of nursing" means a department, division, or other administrative unit in a junior college, community college, college, or university which provides primarily or exclusively an accredited two-year program of education in professional nursing and allied subjects leading to an associate degree in nursing or to an equivalent degree. (0) The term "accredited" when applied to any program of nurse education means a program accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education. Title II-Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED SEC. 201. For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to stimulate and assist in the establishment at institutions of higher education |