[Federal Register: March 8, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 44)]
[Notices]
[Page 10998]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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.
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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.
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