INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERGRADUATE
EDUCATION SERVICE (IDUES)
Presented By:
Dr. James E. Laws, Jr.,
Director, IDUES
National Association of HBCU Title III Administrators, Inc.
Annual Conference
June 21-24, 2010
Orlando, FL
IDUES STAFF
DIRECTOR’S OFFICE
Dr. James E. Laws, Jr. – Director
Janie Funkhouser
Luretha Kelley
Donald Watson
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TITLE III, TITLE V, AND MANDATORY FUNDS
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Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP)
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Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCU)
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Alaska Native and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions
(AANAPISI)
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Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI)
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
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Historically Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI)
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Minority Science and Engineering and Improvement Program (MSEIP)
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Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI)
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Promoting Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA)
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All CCRAA grantees
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2010 SAFRA/Mandatory Funding
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IDUES STAFF TEAM B,
TITLE III-PART B & E
Karen W. Johnson - Team Leader
Yolande Badarou
Bradley Haas
Dr. Bernadette Hence
Nalini Lamba-Nieves
Bernadette Miles
Dianne Pitts
Dr. Lorna Polk
Sara Qadir
Matthew Willis
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IDUES 2010 PROGRAM BUDGET
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USES OF HBCU FUNDS
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USES OF HBGI FUNDS
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USES OF MSEIP FUNDS
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GAO
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In November 2009, the Government Accountability
Office (GAO) released a report entitled, “LOW-INCOME
AND MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS:
Management Attention to Long-standing Concerns
Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant
Programs” (GAO-09-309).
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GAO
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Study focused on institutions that serve large proportions of lowincome and minority students.
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GAO was asked to determine:
 (1) characteristics of institutions eligible to receive grants
under Titles III and V of the HEA, including characteristics of
students served;
 (2) any challenges grantees face, and how they spent Title III
and V funds to address these challenges; and
 (3) to what extent the Department of Education monitors the
grantees’ financial and programmatic performance and uses
this information to target its technical assistance.
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GAO
As a result of its study, GAO made five
recommendations to the Department:
Recommendation #1:
Develop a comprehensive, risk-based approach to
target grant monitoring and technical assistance based
on the needs of grantees. In doing so, Education
should take steps to ensure that all available tools,
including its electronic monitoring system, risk-based
criteria, site visits, and grantee annual performance
reports, are fully integrated to better target its limited
resources.
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GAO
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Recommendation #2:
Follow up on each of the improper uses of grant funds
that were identified in this report.
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Recommendation #3:
Provide program staff with the necessary training to
fully carry out monitoring and technical assistance
responsibilities.
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GAO
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Recommendation #4:
Disseminate information to grantees about common
implementation challenges and successful projects to
leverage the investment that has been made across the
programs.
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Recommendation #5:
Develop appropriate mechanisms to collect and use
feedback from grantees.
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THE DEPARTMENT’S RESPONSE TO GAO
The Department responded by developing a
Corrective Action Plan (CAP). All corrective
actions must be completed by November 2010.
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THE DEPARTMENT’S RESPONSE TO GAO
OPE developed the following corrective actions to
address GAO findings regarding site visits:
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OPE will conduct a site visit at each institution
demonstrating improper uses of grant funds as
identified by GAO. Three out of four of these site visits
have already been conducted, and the fourth will be
scheduled very soon. The site visits include both a
programmatic and fiscal review, as well as creating an
appropriate CAP.
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OPE also committed to scheduling additional
monitoring site visits to minority-serving institutions in
FY 2010. To this end, we have scheduled 8 site visits for
the summer/fall months.
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ENDOWMENTS
If you are the recipient of an old Endowment Challenge
Grant (Title III, Part C) and or Endowment is one of
your approved activities:
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A new Financial Reporting Form has been forwarded to
OMB for approval;
We anticipate a test site to be up by August 2010;
Expected launch date is October 2010;
Proposed deadline for receipt of data is January 2011.
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IDUES UPDATES
HBCU/SAFRA (mandatory funds) 2010 Awards
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Award letters mailed and sent electronically on June 17th
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Applications for new awards must include a 5-year
Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)
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Submit applications electronically using e-Application:
http://e-grants.ed.gov
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Applications Due: July 30, 2010
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Interim Performance Report due April 29, 2011
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