[Federal Register: March 8, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 44)] [Notices] [Page 10998] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr08mr99-59] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Demonstration Projects To Ensure Students With Disabilities, Receive a Quality Higher Education AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education; Department of Education. ACTION: Notice inviting individuals to serve as field readers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Office of Higher Education Programs invites interested individuals to apply to serve as field readers to evaluate grant applications submitted for funding for fiscal year 1999 for the Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education program. The Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education program supports model demonstration projects to provide technical assistance or professional development for faculty and administrators in institutions of higher education (IHEs) in order to provide them with the skills and supports they need to provide students with disabilities a quality postsecondary education and to disseminate research and provide training to other IHEs. DATES: Any individual interested in serving as a field reader should mail or fax his or her resume to the address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice no later than April 5, 1999, indicating the program in which he or she is interested in serving as a field reader. Resumes should not exceed two pages. Duties and Compensation of Field Readers Field readers will review applications according to the applicable published selection criteria. Each field reader will serve for a period of approximately five days. Each field reader who is selected will receive compensation for certain travel expenses and an honorarium. For further information on this competition, please refer to Title VII, Part D, of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and to the application notice for this competition to be published in the Federal Register soon. Field Reader Qualifications The Department is seeking experienced and knowledgeable professionals who are experts in the educational needs of students with disabilities in postsecondary education. These professionals should be current with issues surrounding program evaluation and dissemination, synthesizing research, providing professional development to faculty and administrators within IHEs, and helping IHEs adopt innovations. Field readers may come from IHEs or other settings in which qualified individuals are employed. Field readers must have the expertise necessary to assess accurately the applicant's showing on each of the applicable selection criterion. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amie Amiot, Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education program, Post Office Box 23764, Washington, D.C. 20026-3764. Telephone: (202) 260-0415. Inquiries may be sent by e-mail to Amie--Amiot@ed.gov or by Fax to (202) 260-9271. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday. Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact person listed in the preceding paragraph. Electronic Access to This Document Anyone may view this document, as well as all other Department of Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or portable document format (pdf) on the World Wide Web at either of the following sites: http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm http://www.ed.gov/news.html To use the pdf you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you have questions about using the pdf, call the U.S. Government Printing Office toll free at 1-888-293-6498. Anyone may also view these documents in text copy only on an electronic bulletin board of the Department. Telephone: (202) 219-1511 or, toll free, 1-800-222-4922. The documents are located under Option G-Files/Announcements, Bulletins and Press Releases. Note: The official version of a document is the document published in the Federal Register. Program Authority: 20 U.S.C.1140 et seq. David A. Longanecker, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education. [FR Doc. 99-5624 Filed 3-5-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000-01-P </pre> </body> </html>