CFR > Title 34 - Education > SUBTITLE B—Regulations of the Offices of the Department of Education > CHAPTER VI—OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (parts 600 to 694) > PART 636—URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM > SUBPART A—General (§636.1 to §636.7) > 636.3—What activities may the Secretary support?

636.3—What activities may the Secretary support?

(a) The Secretary awards grants under this program for the following activities:
(1) Planning.
(2) Applied research.
(3) Training.
(4) Resource exchanges or technology transfers.
(5) Delivery of services.
(6) Other activities to design and implement programs to assist urban communities to meet and address their pressing and severe problems.
(b) Examples of pressing and severe urban problems that applications may address include concerns such as the following:
(1) Work force preparation.
(2) Urban poverty and the alleviation of poverty.
(3) Health care, including delivery and access.
(4) Underperforming school systems and students.
(5) Problems faced by the elderly and individuals with disabilities in urban settings.
(6) Problems faced by families and children.
(7) Campus and community crime prevention, including enhanced security and safety awareness measures as well as coordinated programs addressing the root causes of crime.
(8) Urban housing.
(9) Urban infrastructure.
(10) Economic development.
(11) Urban environmental concerns.
(12) Other problem areas that participants of the planning consortium agree are of high priority in the urban area in which their institutions are located.
(13) Problems faced by individuals with disabilities regarding accessibility to institutions of higher education and other public and private community facilities.
(14) Lessening of existing attitudinal barriers that prevent full inclusion of individuals with disabilities within their community.

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(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1136c )