42 U.S.C. § 7381c: Education partnerships

Summary

The Secretary can allow each Department research and development facility, when practical and allowed by the facility’s operating contract, to make partnership agreements with U.S. schools (like local school systems, colleges, and universities). The goal is to encourage and improve science study at every education level. These partnerships can provide seven kinds of help. Examples include loaning or giving equipment, letting staff teach or help make science courses, involving college faculty and students in lab research, letting students earn credit for lab work, giving academic and career advice, and giving money to hire people who connect schools, labs, companies, and government.

Title 42, §7381c

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(a)Education partnerships

The Secretary may authorize each Department research and development facility, to the extent practicable and consistent with the provisions of the laboratory’s management and operating contract, to enter into education partnership agreements with educational institutions in the United States (including local educational agencies, colleges, and universities) for the purpose of encouraging and enhancing study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education.

(b)Types of assistance

Under a partnership agreement entered into with an educational institution under subsection (a) and as authorized by the Secretary, a Department research and development facility may provide assistance to the educational institution by—

(1)loaning or transferring equipment to the institution;

(2)transferring to the institution equipment determined by the director of the Department research and development facility to be surplus;

(3)making personnel of Department research and development facilities available to teach science courses or to assist in the development of science courses and materials for the institution;

(4)involving faculty and students of the institution in research programs of Department research and development facilities;

(5)cooperating with the institution in developing a program under which students may be given academic credit for work on research projects of Department research and development facilities;

(6)providing academic and career advice and assistance to students of the institution; and

(7)providing funds to educational institutions to hire personnel to facilitate interactions between local school systems, Department research and development facilities, and corporate and governmental entities.

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Amendments

2005—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 109–58, § 1102(c)(1), added par. (1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: “loaning equipment to the institution;”. Subsec. (b)(7). Pub. L. 109–58, § 1102(c)(2)–(4), added par. (7).

§7381c Education Partnerships

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Title 42, §7381c

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