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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§802 Fellowships for City Planning, Management, Housing Specialists, and Persons with General Capacity in Urban Affairs and Problems

Title 20 › CHAPTER 23 — TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 802

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may give graduate fellowships to train city planners, managers, housing specialists, and other people who want to work on city and urban problems. Fellows are picked only for their ability and on the recommendation of the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board. The training must be at public or private nonprofit colleges or universities that have graduate programs in city planning or related fields, such as architecture, civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration, urban affairs, and sociology. The programs must prepare students for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, or community development. A nine-member Advisory Board will be appointed by the Secretary. Three members must come from public colleges, three from private nonprofit colleges (department heads in related subjects), and three from national organizations focused on urban or community development. The Board meets when the Secretary asks and recommends people for the fellowships. Board members may receive travel pay and a daily allowance like other federal advisory committee members.

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Title 20, §802

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(a)Criteria
The Secretary is authorized to provide fellowships for the graduate training of professional city planning, management, and housing specialists, and other persons who wish to develop a general capacity in urban affairs and problems as herein provided. Persons shall be selected for such fellowships solely on the basis of ability and upon the recommendation of the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board established pursuant to subsection (b). Fellowships shall be solely for training in public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education having programs of graduate study in the field of city planning or in related fields (including architecture, civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration, urban affairs, and sociology) which programs are oriented to training for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and community development.
(b)Urban Studies Fellowship Board
There is hereby established the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”), which shall consist of nine members to be appointed by the Secretary as follows: Three from public institutions of higher learning and three from private nonprofit institutions of higher education, who are the heads of departments which provide academic courses appropriately related to the fields referred to in subsection (a), and three from national organizations which are directly concerned with problems relating to urban, regional, and community development. The Board shall meet upon the request of the Secretary and shall make recommendations to him with respect to persons to be selected for fellowships under this section. Members of the Board shall be entitled to receive transportation expenses and a per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized for members of advisory committees created pursuant to section 1701h of title 12.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 93–383, § 402, provided for

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to title VIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964. The

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of the enumerated sections of such title VIII have been executed to comparable sections of title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 as the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

1974—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–383 expanded authority of Secretary to include fellowships in graduate training in city management and for persons wishing to develop a general capacity in urban affairs and added urban affairs to authorized fields of study. 1969—Pub. L. 91–152 substituted provisions authorizing the Secretary to grant fellowships solely on the basis of ability for training in city planning at public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education and establishing the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board for provisions authorizing the Secretary to make matching grants to States to assist in programs providing special training in community development and to support local research and setting forth the provisions required in any plan submitted to the Secretary in order to obtain grants. The former provisions of this section are now set forth in section 803 of this title with minor

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. 1968—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 90–448 substituted “technical, professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ such skills” for “technical and professional people”, and inserted provisions to include employment by a private nonprofit organization which is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community development programs. 1967—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing. 1965—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 89–117 substituted “$30,000,000” for “$10,000,000”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Advisory BoardsAdvisory boards in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a board established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such board is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a board established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 1001(2) and 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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20 U.S.C. § 802

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110