 
      CHAPTER 28--HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
 
                    SUBCHAPTER III--INSTITUTIONAL AID
 
   Part B--Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities
 
Sec. 1061. Definitions

    For the purpose of this part:
        (1) The term ``graduate'' means an individual who has attended 
    an institution for at least three semesters and fulfilled academic 
    requirements for undergraduate studies in not more than 5 
    consecutive school years.
        (2) The term ``part B institution'' means any historically Black 
    college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose 
    principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Americans, and 
    that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or 
    association determined by the Secretary to be a reliable authority 
    as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an 
    agency or association, making reasonable progress toward 
    accreditation,,\1\ except that any branch campus of a southern 
    institution of higher education that prior to September 30, 1986, 
    received a grant as an institution with special needs under section 
    1060 of this title and was formally recognized by the National 
    Center for Education Statistics as a Historically Black College or 
    University but was determined not to be a part B institution on or 
    after October 17, 1986, shall, from July 18, 1988, be considered a 
    part B institution.
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        (3) The term ``Pell Grant recipient'' means a recipient of 
    financial aid under subpart 1 of part A of subchapter IV of this 
    chapter.
        (4) The term ``professional and academic areas in which Blacks 
    are underrepresented'' shall be determined by the Secretary and the 
    Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on the basis of the 
    most recent available satisfactory data, as professional and 
    academic areas in which the percentage of Black Americans who have 
    been educated, trained, and employed is less than the percentage of 
    Blacks in the general population.
        (5) The term ``school year'' means the period of 12 months 
    beginning July 1 of any calendar year and ending June 30 of the 
    following calendar year.

(Pub. L. 89-329, title III, Sec. 322, as added Pub. L. 99-498, title 
III, Sec. 301(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1294; amended Pub. L. 100-
369, Sec. 10(c), July 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 838.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1061, Pub. L. 89-329, title III, Sec. 322, as added 
Pub. L. 96-374, title III, Sec. 301, Oct. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 1393, 
defined terms used in this part, prior to the general revision of this 
subchapter by Pub. L. 99-498.
    Another prior section 1061, Pub. L. 89-329, title IV, Sec. 401, Nov. 
8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1232; Pub. L. 90-575, title I, Sec. 101(a), (b)(1), 
Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1017; Pub. L. 91-95, Sec. 4, Oct. 22, 1969, 83 
Stat. 143; Pub. L. 92-318, title I, Sec. 131(a)(1)(A), June 23, 1972, 86 
Stat. 247, related to statement of purpose and authorization of 
appropriations for educational opportunity grants, prior to the general 
revision of part A of subchapter IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 92-318, 
title I, Sec. 131(b)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 247.


                               Amendments

    1988--Par. (2). Pub. L. 100-369 inserted ``,, except that any branch 
campus of a southern institution of higher education that prior to 
September 30, 1986, received a grant as an institution with special 
needs under section 1060 of this title and was formally recognized by 
the National Center for Education Statistics as a Historically Black 
College or University but was determined not to be a part B institution 
on or after October 17, 1986, shall, from July 18, 1988, be considered a 
part B institution'' after ``accreditation''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1085, 1131-1, 1131a, 1131c 
of this title; title 25 section 1809; title 29 section 718; title 42 
sections 1862d, 3035q.
