Higher Education Amendments of 1986

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 99-861) Higher Education Amendments of 1986 - Revises and reauthorizes various programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) (the Act) through FY 1991. Title I: Amendment to Title I of the Act - Redesignates title I (Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning Postsecondary Programs for Nontraditional Students. Revises provisions for Part A Program and Planning Grants. Provides for grants for institutional development, off-campus programs, and adult and continuing education staff development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Sets forth a Part B National Programs for adult learning research. Declares that no funds are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of part B for FY 1987 through 1991. Provides for the National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Title II: Libraries - Redesignates title II of HEA as Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement. Authorizes appropriations for programs under such title for FY 1987 through 1991. Revises provisions for college library resources grants to set forth need-based eligibility criteria. Adds a definition of "full-time equivalent student." Repeals provisions concerning the making of special purpose grants. Permits institutions that do not otherwise qualify as research libraries to provide additional information to demonstrate the national or international significance for scholarly research of the particular collection described in their grant proposal under provisions for strengthening research library resources. Establishes a grant program for supporting college library technology and cooperation. Repeals provisions relating to the National Periodical System Corporation. Title III: Institutional Aid - Amends title III (Institutional Aid) of HEA to revise institutional aid programs, especially in relation to the development needs of historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with large concentrations of minority, low-income students. Includes as eligible institutions, for purposes of the title III part A (Strengthening Institutions) grants program, any institution of higher education which meets specified requirements and which has an enrollment of which at least: (1) 20 percent are Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic students, or combination thereof; (2) 60 percent are American Indian, or five percent Alaska Native or (3) five percent are Native Hawaiian, Asian American, American Samoan, Micronesian Guamian (Chamorro), or Northern Marianan, or any combination thereof. Establishes under title III part B, "Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (which replaces the current part B, Aid to Institutions with Special Needs). Defines a "part B institution" as any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964 and whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans. Sets forth authorized uses for grants allotted to institutions under the part B program. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make allotments to part B institutions according to formulas based on number of: (1) Pell grant recipients; (2) graduates; and (3) graduates in attendance at graduate or professional schools in degree programs in disciplines in which blacks are underrepresented. Sets forth a special rule regarding allotments to Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia. Sets forth a special merger rule. Sets forth provisions for applications for part B grant allotments. Sets forth provisions for part B program grants to professional and graduate institutions. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, to award such grants to each of listed postgraduate institutions that the Secretary determines to be making a substantial contribution to the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, or other graduate education opportunities for black Americans. Prohibits any such grant in excess of $500,000 unless the postgraduate institution assures that 50 percent of the cost of the purposes for which the grant is made will be paid from non-Federal sources. Limits the duration of any such grant to five years. Provides that any one undergraduate or postgraduate institution may receive no more than two such five-year grants. Allows use of such grants for: (1) any of the authorized uses of part B allotment grants; (2) contribution development offices; and (3) institutional endowments. Sets forth application requirements. Provides that independent professional or graduate institutions eligible for such grants include: (1) Morehouse School of Medicine; (2) Meharry Medical School; (3) Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; (4) Atlanta University; and (5) Tuskegee Institute School of Veterinary Medicine. Sets forth reporting and audit requirements and penalties for misuse of funds. Revises title III part C (Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B) to rename the "endowment grants" under such part "challenge grants." Makes technical and conforming amendments to eligibility requirements under such part. Reduces the maximum amount of any such part C challenge grant for FY 1987. (Retains the current maximum for FY 1988 and succeeding fiscal years.) Revises part D (General Provisions) under title III. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register all policies and procedures required to exercise the authority to approve applications for title III assistance. Prohibits any other criteria, policies, or procedures from being applicable for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA in making eligibility determinations under part A of title III; and (2) advance the base-year forward following each annual grant cycle. Requires the Secretary to waive specified part A institutional eligibility requirements (involving an institution's having a relatively high percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV of HEA) in the case of an institution which is: (1) extensively subsidized by the State in which it is located and charges low or no tuition; (2) serving a substantial number of low- and middle-income students as a percentage of its total student population; (3) contributing substantially to increasing higher education opportunities for educationally disadvantaged, underrepresented, or minority students, who are low-income individuals; or (4) substantially increasing higher educational opportunities for individuals in rural or other isolated areas unserved by postsecondary institutions. Includes institutions which enroll significant numbers of Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, or Native Hawaiian students under part A (although not satisfying a specified eligibility criterion involving an institution's having relatively low and general expenditures) among those institutions which must be included in a biennial report of the Secretary to the Congress. Includes among those reasons for which the Secretary may grant a waiver of specified eligibility requirements (involving an institution's being accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency and its being authorized to offer bachelor's or junior or community college degrees) a determination that such waiver will substantially increase higher education opportunities appropriate to the needs of Hispanic Americans or Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to assure that representatives of historically black colleges, Hispanic institutions, Native American institutions, and Asian Americans, Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians, are included as readers on title III application review panels. Revises provisions for grants to encourage cooperative arrangements to include such arrangements between title III aid recipients and institutions not receiving such assistance. Includes benefit to the applicant institutions as a priority criterion in making such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the following title III programs: (1) part A, Strengthening Institutions; (2) part B, Strengthening Historically Black College and Universities (with a separate authorization for part B provisions for Professional and Graduate Institutions); and (3) part C, Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B. Sets forth special payment rules to reflect changes in part A and part B of title III. Directs the Secretary to reserve specified amounts for junior and community colleges. Directs the Secretary to give priority, under circumstances where funds exceed a specified amount, to applications from eligible institutions with significant groups of students who are minority underrepresented in higher education, or educationally disadvantaged. Title IV: Student Assistance - Extends the basic educational opportunity grants (Pell Grant) program through FY 1992. Revises program eligibility requirements. Limits the duration of any Pell Grant to five years for four-year programs, and six years for five-year programs. Revises maximum grant limits and cost of attendance formulas and rules. Sets forth a separate family contribution schedule for Pell Grants. Sets forth a procedure with respect to award errors and overpayments. Requires the Secretary to develop a simplified needs test for low-income families. Allows a specified amount of child care costs in the calculation of eligibility for Pell Grants. Requires students to contribute a specified amount of self-help before being eligible for Pell Grant assistance. Makes less-than-half-time students eligible for Pell Grants under specified conditions. Authorizes appropriations for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program through FY 1991. Revises program provisions relating to: (1) the maximum amount of such grants; (2) priority for needy students; and (3) apportionment. Makes less-than-half-time students eligible for supplemental grants under specified conditions. Authorizes appropriations for the State Student Incentive Grants Program (SSIG) through FY 1991. Allows learning study grants to eligible students. Revises provisions relating to participation of certain institutions in the SSIG program. Sets forth a Federal share limitation under such program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (including talent search, upward bound, student support services, educational opportunity centers, and staff development activities). Authorizes appropriations for 1987 through 1991 for such programs. Requires the Secretary to carry out a talent search to recruit and help minority students to pursue graduate study. Authorizes appropriations for special programs for secondary and postsecondary students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork through FY 1991. Authorizes appropriations for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program through FY 1991. Authorizes cost-of-education payments to institutions of higher education. Provides a formula for determining the amounts of such payments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the establishment of a veterans education outreach program which would authorize payments to institutions for each veteran enrolled at such institution and receiving veterans' educational assistance. Outlines provisions concerning eligibility for such payments. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to provide special child care services to disadvantaged college students. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purposes. Redesignates part B of title IV as the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL program). Requires all students to undergo a needs test under GSL. Requires a return of specified amounts of guaranty agency advances in FY 1988 and 1989. Requires the Comptroller General to take into account State law requirements regarding advances. Increases loan limits under the GSL program. Repeals the limitation on first year student borrowing. Provides that students who are carrying at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload may receive a deferment if they have received a GSL for that enrollment period. Provides for a three-year deferment of GSL repayment for active duty members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps. Allows GSL repayment deferments for teachers in geographic or subject areas where there are teacher shortages. Provides for up to three years GSL repayment deferment for the care of disabled dependents. Provides for up to six months GSL repayment deferment for parental leave. Grants up to 12 months deferment of loan repayment for mothers of preschool children if such mothers are entering or reentering the workforce and earn less than one dollar above the minimum wage. Sets forth provisions for multiple disbursement of GSL loans. Increases the interest rate for new GSL borrowers to ten percent during the fifth year of repayment. Sets forth provisions for treatment of excess interest payments on new borrower accounts resulting from decline in treasury bill rates. Provides for a study of such provisions. Requires that institutions do not certify loans for amounts in excess of the student's demonstrated need. Allows supplemental and State-sponsored or private loans to be used to provide the expected family contribution. Requires the Secretary to make prompt payment of interest subsidies to holders of loans. Authorizes loan insurance only for students attending on at least a half-time basis. Changes the loan repayment period from 15 years to ten years. Provides for a single three percent insurance premium (administrative fee) when the loan is taken out. Provides that monthly payments by the borrower are to be rounded to multiples of five dollars. Allows guaranty agencies to transfer loans to other guaranty agencies with the consent of loan holders. Prohibits guaranty agencies from offering inducements to educational institutions or their employees to secure applicants for loans. Provides for approval, as grounds for deferment of loan repayment, of any course of study at a foreign university accepted for completion of a recognized international fellowship program. Allows any guaranty agency to request information from any other agency on borrowing by students in its State, with specified limitations. Prohibits any entity from performing both supplemental pre-claims assistance and collections activities on the same loan. Deems the guaranty agency to have a contractual right against the United States to receive reimbursement on defaulted loans. Directs the Secretary to make prompt payment to guaranty agencies on their claims. Establishes a reinsurance fee based on default rates to be paid to the Federal government by guaranty agencies. Sets forth additional guaranty agreement conditions. Set forth garnishment provisions. Provides for a pilot program and study of rehabilitation of defaulted loans. Allows guaranty agencies to provide information to eligible institutions on former students who are in default. Allows comminging of funds by guaranty agencies under specified conditions. Replaces the Auxiliary Loans for Students (ALAS) program with a program of Supplemental Loans for Students. Makes all students, except dependent undergraduates, eligible for Supplemental Loans for Students. Allows deferment of repayment of Loans for Parents (PLUS) in cases of temporary total disability or unemployment. Increases the annual and aggregate loan limits for Loans for Parents. Permits Health Professions Students Loans to be included in Consolidation Loans. Revises other provisions relating to Consolidation Loans. Requires guaranty agencies to submit proof that attempts were made to locate the borrower in case of a default. Requires reports to credit bureaus by holders of loans on current balances of loans in good standing and by guaranty agencies on loans in default status. Requires accounts to be maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Allows the Comptroller General and the Inspector General of the Department of Education to audit guaranty agencies, eligible lenders, secondary markets, and direct lenders. Requires the Secretary to limit, suspend, or terminate lenders who engage in fraudulent or misleading advertising. Authorizes the Secretary to sell defaulted loans to collection agencies under specified conditions. Adds to the information required to be given to student borrowers. Includes trust companies and stock savings banks, and the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation under the definition of eligible lender. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on the amount of student loan capital provided through tax-exempt financing, its impact on the availability of student credit, and an assessment of the need for additional tax-exempt financing. Revises the general authority of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Limits Sallie Mae to providing secondary market functions and prohibits it from purchasing or in any way controlling a bank or savings and loan association. Requires Sallie Mae to report to the Congress 30 days prior to implementing any new programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for college work study programs (CWS) through FY 1991. Revises provisions for apportionment of CWS program funds. Sets forth rules for a proprietary institution's employment of students under the CWS program. Provides for private sector employment agreements under the CWS program. Authorizes use of specified portions of CWS program funds for: (1) community services job location and development programs; and (2) community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for an income contingent direct loan demonstration project. Renames national direct student loans (NDSL) as Perkins Loans (direct loans). Extends the authorization of appropriations for such loan program through FY 1991. Sets forth a new allocation formula for such loan program. Penalizes institutions with specified excessive direct loan default rates by reducing or eliminating new Federal capital contributions to such institutions. Increases loan limits under the direct loan program. Requires lenders to give borrowers additional student loan information. Grants the following deferments from direct loan repayment: (1) six months for parental leave; (2) 12 months for working mothers of preschool children, if such mothers make no more than one dollar above the minimum wage; and (3) three years for active duty in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps. Allows for partial cancellation of a student's direct loan debt for volunteer service under the Peace Corps Act or the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Adds a new part F to title IV relating to need analysis (i.e., an analysis of the amount of financial assistance needed by students in order to attend institutions of higher education). Provides for the determination of the expected family contribution to a dependent student's educational costs, based on available income. Provides various tables to assist in the determination of available income. Provides a computation of the family contribution for independent students without dependents, and for such students with dependents. Directs the Secretary to use a simplified needs test for very low-income familes. Revises general provisions for student assistance under HEA. Sets forth test requirements (along with other conditions) which students who are admitted on the basis of ability to benefit from education or training must meet in order to remain eligible for student assistance. Requires the Secretary to forward copies of all forms and regulations to the appropriate congressional committees at least 45 days prior to their effective date. Requires the Secretary to establish a toll-free telephone number to provide student aid information to the general public, including instructions on completing applications. Requires the Secretary to develop a Federal student aid report to be completed by institutions of higher education and delivered to all student aid recipients, indicating the amount of Federal student aid received by the student. Requires a student, in order to be eligible for Federal assistance, to be enrolled in a degree, certificate, or other program leading to a recognized education credential. Makes less-than-half-time students eligible for need-based program assistance under title IV of HEA. (Sets forth special conditions for such assistance in the case of Pell Grants). Prohibits students who are in default under the GSL or direct loan program or who owe any refund under any Federal grant program from receiving any form of Federal student assistance. Revises student eligibility requirements. Revises the definition of "independent student." Requires each institution participating in title IV programs; to carry out financial assistance information dissemination activities for prospective students and enrolled students. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a National Student Loan Data System and report its results to the Congress. Sets forth provisions for training persons in financial aid and student support services. Sets forth provisions for institutions to be eligible for title IV program participation agreements. Establishes in the Department of Education an independent Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Title V: Teacher Training and Development - Renames title V of HEA as Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for: Mid-Career Teacher Training Programs; (2) School, College, and University Partnerships; (3) Professional Development and Leadership Programs; (4) Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships; and (5) Task Forces on Teacher Education. Establishes a program of Midcareer Teacher Training for Nontraditional Students. Establishes a program of School, College, and University Partnerships, including a community college pilot project. Establishes Professional Development and Leadership Programs, including Professional Development Resource Centers and a program of Leadership in Educational Administration Development. Sets forth provisions for Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships, including the Congressional Teacher Scholarship Program (previously named the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program) and the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program (previously named the National Talented Teacher Fellowship Program). Sets forth provisions for State task forces on teacher training. Amends the Education Amendments of 1980 to extend through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations for the Robert A. Taft Institute. Title VI: International Education Programs - Revises and reauthorizes programs under title VI (International Education Programs) of HEA through FY 1991. Revises part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) provisions of title VI. Eliminates contract provisions, but retains grant provisions, for language and area centers and programs under part A. Sets forth separate provisions for the graduate and undergraduate aspects of such centers and programs. Adds provisions focusing on: (1) the foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and (2) instruction and research on issues in world affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) make grants to institutions of higher education or combinations of such institutions to pay stipends for individuals undergoing advanced training in approved centers or programs for language, area studies, and international education under part A; and (2) award, on the basis of a national competition, stipends to students beginning their third year of graduate training in a specialty language with multidisciplinary area training. Replaces provisions relating to international studies centers with provisions for language resource centers. Requires such centers to serve as resources to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. Sets forth some authorized activities for such centers. Revises provisions for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs. Adds provisions for model program grants to improve and expand foreign language studies. Bases institutional eligibility for such grants on certain foreign language requirements. Adds provisions for intensive summer language institutes. Includes among the types of research and studies which may be assisted under part A the application of proficiency tests and standards across all areas of instruction and classroom use. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the making of grants by the Secretary to educational institutions or libraries for the purpose of acquiring periodicals published outside the United States. Revises provisions for equitable distribution of funds for language and area centers to require the Secretary to employ separate but equally rigorous criteria for undergraduate and graduate programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) and for part B (Business and International Education) through FY 1991. Restructures the membership and duties of the Advisory Board which advises the Secretary on the conduct of programs under title VI. Provides for a program of overseas internships to enable foreign language students to develop their foreign language skills and knowledge of foreign cultures and societies. Title VII: Construction and Renovation - Directs the Secretary to carry out programs of financial assistance to institutions of higher education and to higher education building agencies for the construction, reconstruction, or renovation of academic facilities in order to bring such facilities in conformity with specified housing and environmental laws and regulations. Requires States, in order to receive grants for the construction, reconstruction, or conversion of undergraduate academic facilities, to submit annually to the Secretary a State plan containing specified standards and procedures to be followed concerning the allocation of grant funds received by the States. Outlines criteria and allotment procedures. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to make grants to graduate institutions of higher education which meet application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to make and insure loans to institutions of higher education and to higher education building agencies for the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities. Provides the terms for such loans. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving loan fund for the purpose of making and insuring such loans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to institutions of higher education and higher education building agencies to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for construction, reconstruction, and renovation projects. Sets limits and requirements for such grants. Authorizes the participation of the U.S. Government and the Student Loan Market Association in a private, for profit College Construction Loan Insurance Association that will: (1) guarantee, insure, and reinsure various securities the proceeds of which are substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; (2) guarantee, insure, and reinsure leases of property substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; and (3) issue letters of credit and undertake obligations in order to increase the availability of funds for educational facilities and equipment. Provides for the establishment of the Corporation and for the issuing of annual reports by the Corporation to the President and the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to assist undergraduate postsecondary educational institutions in constructing, reconstructing, or renovating housing, academic facilities, or other educational facilities. Outlines eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of such loans. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for the purpose of the renovation and restoration of Welch Hall. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, to pay the Federal share of the cost of construction of a specified facility. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina, for the purpose of the renovation and restoration of Estey Hall. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial aid to a four-year postsecondary institution to renovate, construct and equip an existing electronic instructional network for providing college and advanced level courses to talented and gifted secondary school students. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Bethune-Cookman College in Florida to establish the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Fine Arts Center. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to pay the costs of the Behavioral Science Facility at the University of Connecticut. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to pay the costs of establishing a business administration program leading to a doctoral degree at the University of Rhode Island. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for recovery by the United States of payments made for the cost of construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities. Repeals title IV of the Housing Act of 1950. Title VIII: Cooperative Education - Amends title VIII (Cooperative Education) of HEA to extend the authorization of appropriations for the cooperative education program through FY 1991. Reserves portions of such funds for each fiscal year as follows: (1) a minimum of 75 percent for grants to institutions of higher education and combinations of such institutions for cooperative education; (2) a maximum of 12 1/2 percent for demonstration projects; (3) a maximum of ten percent for training and resource centers; and (4) a maximum of two and one-half percent for research. Revises provisions for grants by the Secretary of Education to cooperative education programs which provide alternating or parallel periods of academic study and of public or private employment. Raises the limit on the amount of such grant to $500,000 per institution of higher education or combination of such institutions. Revises application requirements for such grants. Lowers the percentage of the cost of carrying out an application which may be the maximum Federal share for each of the first three years of a grant (retains the maximum percentages for the fourth and fifth years of the grant which are provided under current law). Allows former grant recipients to reapply for further grants under specified conditions. Sets forth factors to be given special consideration in the approval of applications for such grants, including the extent to which: (1) programs in the academic discipline for which the application is made have had a favorable reception by public and private sector employers; (2) the institution is committed to cooperative education, as demonstrated by plans made to continue the program after the Federal assistance ends; and (3) the institution is committed to extending cooperative education on an institution-wide basis for all students who can benefit. Sets forth provisions for grants and contracts for cooperative education: (1) demonstration and innovation projects; (2) training and resource centers; and (3) research. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to and such contracts with: (1) institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions; and (2) other public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations, whenever such grants or contracts will make an especially significant contribution to attaining the objectives of such projects, centers, and research. Title IX: Graduate Education - Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit higher education institutions for the purpose of enabling underrepresented minorities to participate in graduate studies. Outlines application requirements. Directs the Secretary to award a one-year graduate fellowship to each student (known as a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow) who completes a specified undergraduate internship program. Extends and limits the authorization of appropriations for the National Graduate Fellows Program through 1991. Requires that awardees under such program be known as Jacob Javits Fellows. Reconstitutes the National Graduate Fellows Program Fellowship Board. Makes the Secretary of Education responsible for appointing Board members, and for assuring that they are broadly knowledgeable about and have experience in doctoral education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Directs the Secretary to make grants to academic departments and programs that provide courses of study leading to a graduate degree in areas of national need. Sets out eligibility and application requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts with public and private agencies and organizations in order to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake training for the legal profession. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into grants or contracts with accredited law schools for the purpose of paying up to 90 percent of the cost of legal clinical experience programs at such law schools. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the aforementioned programs under Title IX of the Act. Title X: Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with institutions of postsecondary education in order to improve postsecondary educational opportunities by taking specified actions. Continues a National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to act in an advisory capacity in the determination of postsecondary education grant recipients. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the purpose of making such grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education that are designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities in scientific and technological careers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the establishment of programs in: (1) minority support in science and engineering; and (2) special service projects. Outlines eligibility and application requirements. Establishes an Advisory Board for the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Programs to act as an advisory group to such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Adds a new program of innovative projects for community services and student financial assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title XI: Partnerships for Economic Development and Urban Community Service - Amends title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA to redesignate it as Partnerships for Economic Development and Urban Community Service. Authorizes Federal assistance in the areas of higher education and economic development through the use of planning and research, resource exchange, and certain authorized special projects. Outlines eligibility and application requirements. Directs the Secretary to make grants to urban universities to pay the Federal share of programs designed to address urban issues. Outlines grant application requirements and grant limitations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for carrying out the purposes of this title. Provides assistance to the City University of New York to establish an institute devoted to the study of urban public policy, to be known as the Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute of Urban Public Policy. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title XII: General Provisions - Extends the authorization for the Territorial Student Assistance Treatment Program through FY 1991. Extends the authorization for the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility through FY 1991. Establishes in the legislative branch a Joint Study Commission on Postsecondary Institutional Recognition. Directs the commission to study the institutional and programmatic recognition process used by the Department of Education in determining institutional or programmatic eligibility for student participation in Federal student assistance programs under HEA. Directs the commission to report on such study to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Provides for the appointment of student representatives to bodies involved in the administration of HEA. Sets forth provisions regarding the financial responsibility of foreign students. Sets forth provisions concerning the disclosure by educational institutions of any foreign gifts or grants received. Sets forth aggregate limits on authorizations of appropriations under HEA. Title XIII: Education Administration Part A: Secretarial Studies and Evaluations - Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the impact on student grades of this Act's satisfactory progress requirements for student aid; and (2) report on such study to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study on the establishment of a National Endowment for International Studies and report on such study to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and report to the Congress on: (1) the escalating cost of higher education; (2) student aid recipients; (3) teacher supply and demand; and (4) equitable student aid for farm families. Provides for evaluations of such studies. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the bankruptcy treatment of student borrowers. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the number of less-than-half-time students who would be eligible for Pell Grants if the expected family contribution was zero or zero to 200 dollars. Authorizes appropriations for part A studies. Part B: General Accounting Office Reports - Directs the Comptroller General to study: (1) the practices of State guaranty agencies and multistate guarantors under the guaranteed student loan program; (2) the use of multiple-year lines of credit; (3) multiple disbursement; and (4) student loan consolidation. Part C: Costs of Postsecondary Education - Establishes as an independent agency in the executive branch the National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education. Directs the Commission to study: (1) need analysis; (2) student independence; (3) parental responsibility; (4) student responsibility; (5) institutional responsibility; (6) governmental responsibility and (7) early information, planning, and information technology. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for termination of the Commission. Part D: Library Resources - Directs the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services to study and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the college library resource program. Part E: National Academy of Sciences Study - Directs the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Congress on how volunteers can best be used in the classroom. Makes certain funds available for such study. Part F: Faulkner University - Relieves Faulkner University in Alabama of specified liability under the student aid program. Part G: Alien Youth Education Opportunity Panel - Establishes in the Department of Education an Alien Youth Education Opportunity Panel. Directs the Panel to study and report to the Congress on the extent to which specified HEA requirements result in the denial of study assistance to long-term residents of the United States who have graduated from U.S. high schools and the extent to which that denial deprives those individuals of an equal educational opportunity. Part H: Boston College - Directs the Secretary to cancel all annual debt service obligations of the receiving institution for a specified loan agreement. Part I: Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center - Provides that specified funds appropriated for the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center shall be available as a direct appropriation. Title XIV: Education Research and Statistics - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise provisions relating to education and statistics. (Conforms GEPA provisions to an executive reorganization whereby functions of the National Institute of Education are transferred to the Office of Education Research and Improvement and functions of the National Center for Educational Statistics are transferred to the Center for Statistics.) Revises the declaration of policies relating to the Federal role in educational research and improvement. Declares that it is the purpose of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) to carry out such educational research and improvement policies. Provides that OERI shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Provides that OERI shall include: (1) the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement; (2) the Center for Statistics; and (3) such other units as the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of OERI. Sets forth research and development priorities for OERI, including improvement of: (1) student achievement; (2) equal educational opportunity; (3) collection, analysis, and dissemination of educational data; and (4) dissemination and application of knowledge obtained through such research and data collection. Directs the Secretary to biennially publish proposed research priorities and provide for a period of public comment. Sets forth provisions relating to the membership and functions of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on OERI activities and education, educational research, and data gathering in general. Sets forth various authorities of the Secretary in carrying out OERI activities, including limited hiring authority. Sets forth requirements which the Secretary must meet in making awards to carry out OERI activities. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out OERI functions, to support: (1) regional educational laboratories; (2) research and development centers; (3) meritorious unsolicited proposals for educational research and related authorized activities; and (4) proposals that the Secretary specifically invites or requests which meet priority research and development needs. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Requires the Secretary to make available adequate funds to support meritorious, unsolicited proposals and provide sufficient notice of the availability of such funds to individual researchers in all regions of the country. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain research fellowships in the OERI. Directs OERI to carry out (through a nonprofit organization) a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Retains provisions relating to NAEP and its Assessment Policy Committee. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for periodic review of NAEP; (2) report to the Congress and the President on the review's findings and recommendations; and (3) consider such findings and recommendations in designing the competition to select the nonprofit organization through which OERI carries out NAEP. Authorizes appropriations to carry out NAEP for FY 1987 (in an increased amount) and for FY 1988 and 1989 (in necessary amounts). Requires that at least 95 percent of such funds be expended through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts. Authorizes OERI to administer NAEP funds for any other Federal agencies which use funds to support a single NAEP project. Transfers National Institute of Education property and records to OERI. Waives a three-year employment period limitation in the case of three OERI employees who were employed by the National Institute of Education. Sets forth provisions transferring functions of the National Center for Education Statistics within the Office of the Assistant Secretary to the Center for Statistics (the Center) within OERI. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director. Adds to the Center's functions the analysis of educational data. Directs the Center to collect, collate, and report educational statistics on a State-by-State basis, if feasible. Revises the ex officio membership of the Advisory Council on Education Statistics. Gives the Secretary (rather than an Assistant Secretary) responsibility for making a report on Center activities. Deletes certain grant making authority relating to Center activities. Requires the Center to provide State and local educational agencies opportunities to suggest the development of particular compilations of statistics, surveys, and analyses that would assist those educational agencies. Eliminates a requirement that the Center compile profiles of State equalization of resources among school districts. Prohibits the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, the Advisory Council on Education Statistics, and the members from using any staff, facilities, equipment, supplies, or franking privileges of such councils for activities unrelated to council purposes. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to require the Secretary to fund the National Diffusion Network at a level not less than 34 percent of the funds reserved under discretionary program provisions. Sets forth the objectives of such Network and the Secretary's duties and authority with respect to it. Title XV: American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development - American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act - Part A: American Indians and Alaska Natives - Establishes a corporation to be known as the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. Sets forth provisions for a Board of Trustee, Executive Board, President, and staff of the Institute. Declares the primary functions of the Institute to be: (1) the provision of scholarly study of, and instruction in, Indian art and culture; and (2) the establishment of programs which culminate in the awarding of degrees in the various fields of Indian art and culture. Establishes within the Institute a Center for Culture and Art Studies and a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Sets forth provisions for Indian preference, nonprofit and nonpolitical nature, and tax-exempt status of the Institute. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts and its headquarters in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Requires annual reports of the Institute to the Congress. Sets forth an endowment program for the Institute. Part B: Native Hawaiians - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants for a program for Native Hawaiian culture and arts development. Sets forth provisions for management of such grants. Sets forth administrative provisions. Part C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to carry out parts A and B of this title. Title XVI: United States Institute of Peace - Amends the United States Institute of Peace Act to authorize appropriations for the United States Institute of Peace for FY 1987 and 1988.

(Measure passed House, amended (Inserted Texts of H.R. 2246 and H.R. 3700)) Higher Education Amendments of 1985 - Revises and reauthorizes various programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) (the Act) through FY 1991. Title I: Amendment to Title I of the Act - Redesignates title I of HEA as Postsecondary Programs for Non-traditional Students. Revises provisions for the establishment and awarding of educational program and planning grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Amends provisions concerning the responsibilities of the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) in the evaluation of national education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Title II: Amendments to Title II of the Act - Redesignates title II of HEA as Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement. Authorizes appropriations for programs under such title for FY 1987 through 1991. Authorizes the making of grants for the enhancement of college library resources. Repeals provisions concerning the making of special purpose grants. Establishes a grant program for supporting college library technology and developmental cooperation. Title III: Amendment to Title III of the Act - Amends title III of HEA in the area of institutional aid through grants and in increasing financial assistance to historically black colleges and universities. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to certain qualifying institutions. Reserves a specified sum of previously appropriated funds for the use of eligible institutions serving a high percentage of Hispanic, Black, Asian American, Pacific Basin, or Native American students. Outlines application requirements for institutions requesting financial assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to carry out programs under title III. Title IV: Revisions to Title IV of the Act - Part A: Revision of Part A of Title IV - Amends Part A (Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education) of title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA to reauthorize the making of basic educational opportunity grants (Pell grants) to students in attendance at institutions of higher education. Sets out the amount of such grants for each qualifying individual. Reauthorizes a program of supplemental educational opportunity grants to qualified students demonstrating financial need. Authorizes appropriations for the making of such grants for FY 1987 through 1991. Outlines selection procedures for the awarding of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the purpose of awarding grants to States to enable States to provide grants or State work-study jobs to eligible students attending institutions of higher education. Outlines application procedures for States applying for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to provide special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (including talent search, upward bound, student support services, educational opportunity centers, and staff development activities). Authorizes appropriations for 1987 through 1991 for such programs. Authorizes the establishment of a National Center for Postsecondary Opportunity to ensure the adequate availability of financial aid information. Maintains and expands secondary and postsecondary high school equivalency program and college assistance migrant program projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Continues a Federal Merit Scholarship program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for such program. Authorizes cost-of-education payments to institutions of higher education. Provides a formula for determining the amounts of such payments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the establishment of a veterans' education outreach program which would authorize payments to institutions for each veteran enrolled at such institution and receiving veterans' educational assistance. Outlines provisions concerning eligibility for such payments. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to provide special child care services to disadvantaged college students. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Part B: Revision of Part B of Title IV: - Redesignates part B of title IV as the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. Prohibits discrimination by creditors lending credit under the guaranteed student loan program. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the student loan insurance fund; (2) Federal payments to reduce student interest costs; (3) certain State and nonprofit private loan insurance programs; and (4) repayment of loans of bankrupt, deceased, or disabled borrowers. Sets forth provisions concerning payments by the Secretary to the States of advanced funds for the establishment of State and nonprofit private loan insurance programs. Sets forth provisions concerning Federal loan insurance. Authorizes the payment of Federal interest subsidies to reduce student loan interest costs. Outlines qualifications for students receiving such subsidies. Authorizes payments by the Secretary for the provision of lender referral services for students. Authorizes appropriations for the making of such payments for such referral services. Authorizes the provision of supplemental loans to students and loans to parents of students. Authorizes the provision of consolidation loans to students for consolidation of all student loans made. Outlines qualifications for students receiving such consolidation loans. Provides procedures in the event of default by a student on any loan covered under the Federal loan insurance program. Directs the Secretary to exchange information with credit bureaus and institutions of higher learning for the purpose of promoting responsible repayment of loans under the Federal loan insurance program. Continues a student loan insurance fund for use by the Secretary in making payments on defaulted loans under the Federal loan insurance program. Requires lenders who provide loans under the loan insurance program to provide thorough and accurate loan information concerning such loans to the borrowers. Authorizes Federal credit unions to participate in Federal, State, and private student loan insurance programs. Authorizes the government of the District of Columbia to establish a student loan insurance program. Authorizes repayment by the Secretary of loans of bankrupt, deceased, or disabled borrowers. Continues the Student Loan Marketing Association (the Association) to serve as a secondary market and warehousing facility for student loans. Outlines organizational rules, powers, and authorities of the Association, as well as actions to be taken by the Association in securing student loans. Requires certain studies of: (1) multiple-year lines of credit; and (2) multiple disbursement. Part C: College Work-Study Amendment - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the provision of work-study programs for students at eligible institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions for the operation of such work-study programs. Provides for the establishment of work-study programs whereby students perform community services specifically designed to aid low-income individuals and families. Part D: (Not present) Part E: Perkins Loans - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 and directs the Secretary to carry out a program for the making of low-interest, direct loans (Perkins loans) to students in order to pursue their courses. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996 to enable students to continue or complete their studies. Allocates appropriated funds among fiscal years. Provides procedures for determining an institution's need for the services of Perkins loans. Outlines provisions to be included in agreements with institutions of higher learning for the payment of Federal capital contributions to student loan programs. Requires institutions to provide adequate loan information on any loans made to borrowers under such program. Outlines the terms of such loans. Authorizes the cancellation of loans for certain public service performed (e.g., teaching, or as a member of the armed forces). Provides for the collection of defaulted loans by the Secretary. Part F: Need Analysis - Adds a new part F to title IV relating to need analysis (i.e. an analysis of the amount of financial assistance needed by students in order to attend institutions of higher education). Provides for the determination of the expected family contribution to a dependent student's educational costs, based on available income. Provides various tables to assist in the determination of available income. Provides a computation of the family contribution for independent students without dependents, and for such students with dependents. Provides adjustments to such need analysis for purposes of the Pell grant program. Part G: Revision of General Provisions - Defines "institution of higher education" for purposes of eligibility under certain aforementioned grant programs. Provides a master calendar containing deadline dates for applications, forms, and fund distributions required under the various grant programs. Outlines student eligibility requirements for receiving grants, loans, or work-study assistance. Requires participating institutions of higher education to disseminate information concerning the institution and all financial assistance available. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide training in the administration of financial aid and student support services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1991 for such purposes. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance to provide advice and counsel to the Congress on student financial aid matters. Directs the Secretary to survey student aid recipients for the purpose of collecting and disseminating certain student aid information. Establishes the National Commission on Family Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education to study and report to the Congress on Federal policy regarding the appropriate family role in financing postsecondary education for family members. Repeals the Student Financial Assistance Technical Amendments Act of 1982. Title V: Amendment to Title V of the Act - Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of HEA to redesignate it as Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for programs in: (1) excellence in teacher education programs; (2) school, college, and university partnerships; (3) professional development and leadership programs; (4) teacher scholarships and fellowships; and (5) research, data collection, and planning. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to provide institutional support for teacher education programs. Outlines the requirements for such program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for midcareer teacher training. Outlines the requirements for such program. Authorizes the making of partnership agreements between eligible institutions of higher education and local education agencies in order to receive grants from the Secretary for the purpose of enhancing local academia. Outlines application requirements for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to award four grants for pilot community college partnership projects. Outlines requirements. Establishes teaching academy demonstration projects in order to provide more effective instruction and guidance in the development of teaching skills through the creation of internships for beginning teachers. Outlines requirements for grant recipients. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to establish professional development resource centers for teachers. Outlines grant requirements. Requires each such center to be planned and operated by a professional development policy board. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts for the establishment and operation of technical assistance training centers in each State. Outlines general criteria for such contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies to enable such agencies to support a fellowship program for teachers to be trained to provide special education for handicapped children. Sets out application requirements and other conditions of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate grants to each State for the purpose of awarding Congressional Teacher Scholarships to high school students in such State. Outlines application requirements and selection criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to award one national talented teacher fellowship to a public or private school teacher in each congressional district of each State, and one in each of the territories and possessions of the United States. Outlines application requirements and selection criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize specified legislative authority to assess annually the current and future supply and demand for teachers. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to institutions of higher education for the conduct of research consistent with the collection of such information. Requires institutions of higher education or other entities in any State, in order to be eligible for teacher training assistance under HEA for any fiscal year after FY 1986, to establish a State task force on teacher training. Outlines organizational rules, powers, and functions of such task forces. Extends through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations for the making of grants to the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government in New York. Directs the Secretary to develop standards for the establishment of teacher warranty programs, defined as programs at education colleges that provide free training or support for any of their graduates that receive unsatisfactory evaluations after the first or second year as a teacher. Title VI: Amendments to Title VI of the Act - Amends title VI (International Education Programs) of HEA to authorize the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for the purpose of paying stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training in foreign language training programs or foreign studies programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the establishment, operation, and strengthening of foreign language resource centers. Outlines activities to be carried out by such centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for model programs designed to improve and expand foreign language studies at those institutions. Outlines eligibility requirements for institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to establish intensive summer language institutes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the making of grants by the Secretary to educational institutions or libraries for the purpose of acquiring periodicals published outside the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to enable advanced foreign language students to develop their language skills and their knowledge of foreign cultures through study abroad. Permits such study to be combined with an internship in an international business. Sets forth eligibility requirements and the geographic areas in which such study may take place. Directs the Secretary, at least two times each year, to convene an advisory board on the conduct of programs under Title VI of the Act. Title VII: Amendment to Title VII of the Act - Directs the Secretary to carry out programs of financial assistance to institutions of higher education and to higher education building agencies for the construction, reconstruction, or renovation of academic facilities in order to bring such facilities in conformity with specified housing and environmental laws and regulations. Requires States, in order to receive grants for the construction, reconstruction, or conversion of undergraduate academic facilities, to submit annually to the Secretary a State plan containing specified standards and procedures to be followed concerning the allocation of grant funds received by the States. Outlines criteria and allotment procedures. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to make grants to graduate institutions of higher education which meet application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to make and insure loans to institutions of higher education and to higher education building agencies for the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities. Provides the terms for such loans. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving loan fund for the purpose of making and insuring such loans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to institutions of higher education and higher education building agencies to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for construction, reconstruction, and renovation projects. Sets limits and requirements for such grants. Authorizes the participation of the U.S. Government and the Student Loan Market Association in a private, for profit College Construction Loan Insurance Association that will: (1) guarantee, insure, and reinsure various securities the proceeds of which are substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; (2) guarantee, insure, and reinsure leases of property substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; and (3) issue letters of credit and undertake obligations in order to increase the availability of funds for educational facilities and equipment. Provides for the establishment of the Corporation and for the issuing of annual reports by the Corporation to the President and the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to assist undergraduate postsecondary educational institutions in constructing, reconstructing, or renovating housing, academic facilities, or other educational facilities. Outlines eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of such loans. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for the purpose of the renovation and restoration of Welch Hall. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, to pay the Federal share of the cost of construction of a specified facility. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina, for the purpose of the renovation and restoration of Estey Hall. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial aid to a four-year postsecondary institution to renovate, construct and equip an existing electronic instructional network for providing college and advanced level courses to talented and gifted secondary school students. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for recovery by the United States of payments made for the cost of construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities. Repeals title IV of the Housing Act of 1950. Title VIII: Amendment to Title VIII of the Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to enable the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for the planning, establishment, and expansion of cooperative education programs. Outlines application procedures for such grants, and sets forth grant limitations. Title IX: Amendment to Title IX of the Act - Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit higher education institutions for the purpose of enabling underrepresented minorities to participate in graduate studies. Outlines application requirements. Directs the Secretary to award a one-year graduate fellowship to each student (known as a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow) who completes a specified undergraduate internship program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to enable such institutions to offer grant programs of post-baccalaureate study leading to a graduate or professional degree. Outlines grant requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to award not more than 450 national graduate fellowships per year in accordance with specified guidelines. Continues the National Graduate Fellows Program Fellowship Board to establish the policies of such program and select the fellowship recipients. Outlines organizational rules for such Board. Directs the Secretary to make grants to academic departments and programs that provide courses of study leading to a graduate degree in areas of national need. Sets out eligibility and application requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts with public and private agencies and organizations in order to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake training for the legal profession. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into grants or contracts with accredited law schools for the purpose of paying up to 90 percent of the cost of legal clinical experience programs at such law schools. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the aforementioned programs under Title IX of the Act. Title X: Amendment to Title X of the Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with institutions of postsecondary education in order to improve postsecondary educational opportunities by taking specified actions. Continues a National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to act in an advisory capacity in the determination of postsecondary education grant recipients. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the purpose of making such grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education that are designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities in scientific and technological careers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the establishment of programs in: (1) minority support in science and engineering; and (2) special service projects. Outlines eligibility and application requirements. Establishes an Advisory Board for the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Programs to act as an advisory group to such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title XI: Amendment to Title XI of the Act - Amends title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA to redesignate it as Community Partnerships and Economic Development. Directs the Secretary to make grants to urban universities to pay the Federal share of the cost of programs designed to address urban issues. Outlines grant application requirements and grant limitations. Authorizes Federal assistance in the areas of higher education and economic development through the use of planning and research, resource exchange, and certain authorized special projects. Outlines eligibility and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for carrying out the purposes of this title. Provides assistance to the City University of New York to establish an institute devoted to the study of urban public policy, to be known as the Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute of Urban Public Policy. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title XII: Amendments to Title XII of the Act - Revises provisions concerning the treatment of U.S. territories and student assistance to such territories. Extends from 1985 to 1992 the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility. Revises provisions concerning the disclosure by educational institutions of any foreign gifts or grants received. Requires educational institutions to take steps to guarantee the future payment of tuition and fees to such institutions by students who are foreign nationals (and not admitted to permanent residence in the United States). Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the rising cost of higher education, its causes, its impact, and how the increase can be minimized. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress on sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, among college students. Title XIII: Native American Culture and Art Development - Institute for Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development which shall: (1) provide scholarly study of, and instruction in, the arts and culture of Native Americans; and (2) establish degree programs in the various fields of Native American art and culture. Sets forth administrative provisions governing the Institute. Establishes within the Institute a Center for Culture and Art Studies and a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Requires the Institute to: (1) develop research programs; (2) develop programs for the advancement of Native American art and culture; and (3) coordinate efforts to preserve and support evolving forms of Native American art and culture. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Requires the President of the Institute to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes an endowment for the Institute from such authorization. Title XIV: Education Research and Statutes - Education Research and Statistics Amendments of 1986 - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise provisions relating to education and statistics. (Conforms GEPA provisions to an executive reorganization whereby functions of the National Institute of Education are transferred to the Office of Education Research and Improvement and functions of the National Center for Educational Statistics are transferred to the Center for Statistics.) Revises the declaration of policies relating to the Federal role in educational research and improvement. Declares that it is the purpose of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) to carry out such educational research and improvement policies. Provides that OERI shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Provides that OERI shall include: (1) the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement; (2) the Center for Statistics; and (3) such other units as the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of OERI. Sets forth research and development priorities for OERI, including improvement of: (1) student achievement; (2) equal educational opportunity; (3) collection, analysis, and dissemination of educational data; and (4) dissemination and application of knowledge obtained through such research and data collection. Directs the Secretary to biennially publish proposed research priorities and provide for a period of public comment. Sets forth provisions relating to the membership and functions of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on OERI activities and education, educational research, and data gathering in general. Sets forth various authorities of the Secretary in carrying out OERI activities, including limited hiring authority. Sets forth requirements which the Secretary must meet in making awards to carry out OERI activities. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out OERI functions, to support: (1) regional educational laboratories; (2) research and development centers; (3) meritorious unsolicited proposals for educational research and related authorized activities; and (4) proposals that the Secretary specifically invites or requests which meet priority research and development needs. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Requires the Secretary to make available adequate funds to support meritorious, unsolicited proposals and provide sufficient notice of the availability of such funds to individual researchers in all regions of the country. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain research fellowships in the OERI. Directs OERI to carry out (through a nonprofit organization) a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Retains provisions relating to NAEP and its Assessment Policy Committee. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for periodic review of NAEP; (2) report to the Congress and the President on the review's findings and recommendations; and (3) consider such findings and recommendations in designing the competition to select the nonprofit organization through which OERI carries out NAEP. Authorizes appropriations to carry out NAEP for FY 1987 (in an increased amount) and for FY 1988 and 1989 (in necessary amounts). Requires that at least 95 percent of such funds be expended through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts. Authorizes OERI to administer NAEP funds for any other Federal agencies which use funds to support a single NAEP project. Transfers National Institute of Education property and records to OERI. Waives a three-year employment period limitation in the case of three OERI employees who were employed by the National Institute of Education. Sets forth provisions transferring functions of the National Center for Education Statistics within the Office of the Assistant Secretary to the Center for Statistics (the Center) within OERI. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director. Adds to the Center's functions the analysis of educational data. Directs the Center to collect, collate, and report educational statistics on a State-by-State basis, if feasible. Revises the ex officio membership of the Advisory Council on Education Statistics. Gives the Secretary (rather than an Assistant Secretary) responsibility for making a report on Center activities. Deletes certain grant making authority relating to Center activities. Requires the Center to provide State and local educational agencies opportunities to suggest the development of particular compilations of statistics, surveys, and analyses that would assist those educational agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the Center for FY 1987 (in an increased amount) and for FY 1988 and 1989 (in necessary amounts). Eliminates a requirement that the Center compile profiles of State equalization of resources among school districts. Prohibits the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, the Advisory Council on Education Statistics, and the members from using any staff, facilities, equipment, supplies, or franking privileges of such councils for activities unrelated to council purposes. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to require the Secretary to fund the National Diffusion Network at a level not less than 34 percent of the funds reserved under discretionary program provisions. Sets forth the objectives of such Network and the Secretary's duties and authority with respect to it.

(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #110 (93-1)) Higher Education Amendments of 1986 - Revises and reauthorizes through FY 1991 specified programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Title I: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students - Subpart I: Pell Grants - Extends the Pell Grant program through FY 1991. Revises program eligibility requirements. Prohibits Pell grants to students from families with a $30,000 or more (after tax) income. Limits the duration of any Pell grant to no more than five years. Revises maximum grant limits and cost of attendance formulas and rules. Allows Pell grants to apply to room and board in the case of institutionally owned housing. Sets forth a separate new family contribution schedule for Pell Grants. Sets forth a procedure with respect to award errors and overpayments. Subpart 2: Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program through FY 1991. Revises program provisions relating to: (1) the maximum amount of such grants; (2) priority for needy students; and (3) apportionment. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the State Student Incentive Grants Program (SSIG) through FY 1991. Allows States to use SSIG funds to establish programs of community service work learning study grants to eligible students. Revises provisions relating to participation of certain institutions in the SSIG program. Sets forth a Federal share limitation under such program. Subpart 4: Student Support Service Programs - Authorizes appropriations for Student Support Service Programs through FY 1991. Revises program provisions, including provisions for veterans and for outreach and staff development. Provides that, for fiscal years after 1985, the level of consideration given to prior experience shall not vary from that given for fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to outreach programs which include programs encouraging application to graduate school by low-income and first-generation college and university students in their junior and senior year. Subpart 5: Special Programs for Students Whose Families are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork - Authorizes appropriations for special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork through FY 1991. Subpart 6: Honors Scholarship Program - Authorizes appropriations for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program through FY 1991. Part B: Guaranteed Loans - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) (including the Federally-Insured Student Loan Program) through FY 1991. Requires all students to undergo a needs test under GSL. Permits certain loans taken by parents or students to offset the expected family contribution. Increases the maximum GSL loan limits. Increases the maximum GSL interest rate for new borrowers to ten percent during the repayment period. Prohibits an institution from refusing to provide any eligible lender with a statement which permits a student to receive a GSL loan. (Thus prohibits the institutional practice of forcing students to use certain lenders.) Limits administrative fees (insurance premiums) to not more than three percent per loan for the first year of the loan. Directs the lender, upon the borrower's request, to provide a revised repayment schedule based on graduated and income-sensitive repayments. Permits rounding off monthly repayments to the next highest multiple of five dollars. Prohibits States and nonprofit private institutions or organizations from: (1) offering premiums, payments, or other inducements to any educational institution or its employees in order to secure student loan applicants; (2) conduct unsolicited mailings of student loan applications to secondary school students; or (3) conduct fraudulent or misleading advertising concerning loan availability. Sets forth revised deferment rules for loan repayment. Grants deferments of six months for maternal leave and 12 months for working mothers of preschool aged children. Directs the Secretary, for loan repayment deferment purposes, to approve any course of study at a foreign university that is accepted for the completion of a recognized international fellowship program. Authorizes the transfer of loans from one State or nonprofit organization to another under specified conditions. Authorizes guarantee agencies to furnish information on student loan default to eligible institutions whose former students are in default. Sets forth reporting requirements for multistate guarantors. Revises the rates of reinsurance to the guaranty agencies for default rates. Sets forth provisions for multiple disbursements of loans. Requires, in each State, that the guaranty agency or an eligible lender makes loans directly, or through an agreement with an eligible lender, to students who are eligible but otherwise unable to obtain loans under GSL provisions. Increases the annual and aggregate loan limits under the auxiliary loan program. Adds a new program for loan consolidation. Directs the Secretary to limit, suspend, or terminate a lender's participation in the GSL program upon finding that the lender has not exercised diligence in collecting loans or has engaged in misleading or fraudulent advertising or committed other specified violations. Requires lenders to give borrowers additional student loan information, including a statement of the consequences of default. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to sell defaulted student loans to collection agencies. Includes stock savings banks and trust companies under the definition of eligible lender. Prohibits lenders from offering certain inducements to educational institutions or eligible borrowers and from engaging in fraudulent or misleading advertising. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for foreign medical schools to qualify as eligible institutions. Sets forth guidelines for such criteria. Decreases the special allowance paid to lenders, with specified exceptions. Sets forth provisions relating to the authority of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Requires Sallie Mae to notify certain congressional committees before implementing certain programs. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study of the practices of State guaranty agencies and national guarantors under th GSL program; and (2) report on such study to specified congressional committees by June 30, 1987. Provides for the treatment of certain education loans in bankruptcy proceedings. Part C: Work Study Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for college work study programs (CWS) through FY 1991. Revises provisions for apportionment of CWS program funds. Sets forth rules for a proprietary institution's employment of students under the CWS program. Provides for private sector employment agreements under the CWS program. Authorizes use of specified portions of CWS program funds for: (1) community services job location and development programs; and (2) community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families. Part D: Direct Loans - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Direct Student Loan Program (NDSL) through FY 1991. Revises provisions for apportionment of NDSL funds. Penalizes institutions with specified excessive NDSL default rates by reducing or eliminating new Federal capital contributions to such institutions. Requires institutions to give priority to students with exceptional need in the making of NDSL loans. Increases loan limits under the NDSL program. Permits rounding off monthly repayments to the next highest multiple of five dollars. Requires lenders to give borrowers additional student loan information. Grants the following deferments from loan repayment: (1) six months for maternal leave; and (2) 12 months for working mothers with preschool aged children. Allows for partial cancellation of a student's NDSL debt for volunteer service under the Peace Corps Act or under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Part E: General Student Aid Provisions - Revises need analysis provisions for student aid under HEA. Sets forth policies and basic criteria which the Secretary is to follow in preparing schedules of expected family contributions. Sets forth a special rule for dislocated workers. Grants discretion to financial aid administrators under specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary to submit the schedule for expected family contributions to specified congressional officers by March 1 of the year preceding the year for which the schedule is applicable. Requires that such schedule be approved by the Congress. Establishes a simplified needs analysis for families who have adjusted gross incomes of less than $15,000 and are eligible to file a 1040A Federal tax form. Sets forth the elements of such simplified needs analysis. Sets forth a master calendar with which the Secretary must comply in: (1) developing and distributing Federal and multiple data entry forms; (2) allocating campus-based and Pell Grant funds; and (3) reallocation of any such funds. Requires the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees of the completion of such calendar, and to report on any unmet deadlines, with detailed plans for meeting subsequent deadlines. Allows institutions to use up to ten percent of their allotments under SEOG, CWS, and NDSL programs to serve less-than-half-time students. Requires that a student be making satisfactory progress (including at least a cumulative C average) in order to be eligible for financial aid programs under HEA. Provides for waivers of such requirement under special circumstances. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a five-year study of the impact, if any, of such requirement on student grades; and (2) report to the Congress after each year of such study. Sets forth provisions for certification of student eligibility for loans. Sets forth additional student eligibility requirements. Sets forth provisions for counseling for borrowers. Provides for a combined repayment plan, upon request of the borrower, with respect to all loans eligible for consolidation under specified provisions of HEA and of the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish and carry out a nationwide computerized student loan data bank. Sets forth provisions relating to access to the information in such data bank. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on the data bank. Provides for installment deductions from pay for indebtedness due to student loan default by Federal employees. Provides for installment deductions from any Federal benefits for indebtedness due to student loan default. Requires any institution that advertises job placement rates as a means of attracting students enrollment to publish substantiating evidence in its catalog. Requires institutions participating in the GSL program to inform eligible borrowers about the availability of State grant assistance. Extends (through FY 1986) the authorization of appropriations for training in financial aid and student support services. Makes ineligible for Federal loans and discretionary grants any student loan borrower who is in default. Establishes an independent Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in the Department of Education to advise the Congress and the Secretary on student financial matters. Terminates the Committee one year after its first meeting. Provides that Federal collection of student loan debt by means of administrative offset may take place at any time under specified conditions. Part F: Income Contingent Direct Loan Demonstration Project - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out income contingent direct loan demonstration projects. Sets forth provisions for agreement with higher education institutions and for terms of loans under such pilot program. Directs the Secretary, on the basis of such projects, to conduct a study of the feasibility of extending the pilot project to a direct student loan program of general applicability beginning after September 30, 1990. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on such feasibility study by October 1, 1991, and October 1, 1995. Part G: Additional Student Assistance Savings Provisions - Sets the maximum amount for a Pell Grant for specified academic years. Requires for eligibility as an independent student that a student demonstrate how such student was self-supporting for the relevant years. Title II: Institutional and Program Assistance - Part A: Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning - Repeals title I (Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning) under HEA. Provides for a National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Part B: Libraries - Reauthorizes HEA provisions relating to libraries through FY 1991. Revises provisions relating to college library resources to set forth need-based eligibility criteria. Authorizes a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the College Library Resource Program. Permits institutions that do not otherwise qualify as research libraries to provide additional information to demonstrate the national or international significance for scholarly research of the particular collection described in their grant proposal under provisions for strengthening research library resources. Repeals provisions relating to the National Periodical System. Part C: Institutional Aid - Amends title III (Institutional Aid) of HEA to revise institutional aid programs, especially in relation to the development needs of historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with large concentrations of minority, low-income students. Includes as eligible institutions, for purposes of the title III part A (Strengthening Institutions) grants program, any institution of higher education which meets specified requirements and which has an enrollment of which at least: (1) 20 percent are Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic students, or combination thereof; (2) 60 percent are American Indian, Alaska Native, or Aleut, or combination thereof; or (3) five percent are Native Hawaiian, American Samoan, Micronesian, Guamian (Chamorro), or Northern Marianan, or any combination thereof. Establishes under title III part B, "Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (which replaces the current part B, Aid to Institutions with Special Needs). Defines a "part B institution" as any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964 and whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans. Sets forth authorized uses for grants allotted to institutions under the part B program. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make allotments to part B institutions according to formulas based on number of: (1) Pell grant recipients; (2) graduates; and (3) graduates in attendance at graduate or professional schools in degree programs in disciplines in which blacks are underrepresented. Sets forth a special rule regarding allotments to Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia. Sets forth a special merger rule. Sets forth provisions for applications for part B grant allotments. Sets forth provisions for part B program grants to professional and graduate institutions. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, to award such grants to each of listed postgraduate institutions that the Secretary determines to be making a substantial contribution to the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, or other graduate education opportunities for black Americans. Prohibits any such grant in excess of $500,000 unless the postgraduate institution assures that 50 percent of the cost of the purposes for which the grant is made will be paid from non-Federal sources. Limits the duration of any such grant to five years. Provides that any one undergraduate or postgraduate institution may receive no more than two such five-year grants. Allows use of such grants for: (1) any of the authorized uses of part B allotment grants; (2) contribution development offices; and (3) institutional endowments. Sets forth application requirements. Provides that independent professional or graduate institutions eligible for such grants include: (1) Morehouse School of Medicine; (2) Meharry Medical School; (3) Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; (4) Atlanta University; and (5) Tuskegee Institute School of Veterinary Medicine. Sets forth reporting and audit requirements and penalties for misuse of funds. Revises title III part C (Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B) to rename the "endowment grants" under such part "challenge grants." Makes technical and conforming amendments to eligibility requirements under such part. Reduces the maximum amount of any such part C challenge grant for FY 1987. (Retains the current maximum for FY 1988 and succeeding fiscal years.) Revises part D (General Provisions) under title III. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register all policies and procedures required to exercise the authority to approve applications for title III assistance. Prohibits any other criteria, policies, or procedures from being applicable for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA in making eligibility determinations under part A of title III; and (2) advance the base-year forward following each annual grant cycle. Requires the Secretary to waive specified part A institutional eligibility requirements (involving an institution's having a relatively high percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV of HEA) in the case of an institution which is: (1) extensively subsidized by the State in which it is located and charges low or no tuition; (2) serving a substantial number of low- and middle-income students as a percentage of its total student population; (3) contributing substantially to increasing higher education opportunities for educationally disadvantaged, underrepresented, or minority students, who are low-income individuals; or (4) substantially increasing higher educational opportunities for individuals in rural or other isolated areas unserved by postsecondary institutions. Includes institutions which enroll significant numbers of Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, or Native Hawaiian students under part A (although not satisfying a specified eligibility criterion involving an institution's having relatively low and general expenditures) among those institutions which must be included in a biennial report of the Secretary to the Congress. Includes among those reasons for which the Secretary may grant a waiver of specified eligibility requirements (involving an institution's being accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency and its being authorized to offer bachelor's or junior or community college degrees) a determination that such waiver will substantially increase higher education opportunities appropriate to the needs of Hispanic Americans or Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to assure that representatives of historically black colleges, Hispanic institutions, Native American institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians, are included as readers on title III application review panels. Revises provisions for grants to encourage cooperative arrangements to include such arrangements between title III aid recipients and institutions not receiving such assistance. Includes benefit to the applicant institutions as a priority criterion in making such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the following title III programs: (1) part A, Strengthening Institutions; (2) part B, Strengthening Historically Black College and Universities (with a separate authorization for part B provisions for Professional and Graduate Institutions); and (3) part C, Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B. Sets forth special payment rules to reflect changes in part A and part B of title III. Directs the Secretary to reserve specified amounts for junior and community colleges. Directs the Secretary to give priority, under circumstances where funds exceed a specified amount, to applications from eligible institutions with significant groups of students who are minority underrepresented in higher education, or educationally disadvantaged. Part D: Teacher Training and Development - Subpart 1: Teacher Training Programs for Higher Educational Personnel - Repeals part B (Teacher Training Programs) of Title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Training for School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children - Repeals Part C (Training for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children in Areas with a shortage) of title V of HEA. Subpart 3: Coordination - Repeals part D (Coordination of Education Professional Development) of title V of HEA. Subpart 4: Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program through FY 1991. Subpart 5: The Christa McAuliffe Talented Teacher Fellowship Program - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the (renamed) Christa McAuliffe Talented Teacher Program through FY 1991. Part E: International Education - Revises and reauthorizes programs under title VI (International Education Programs) of HEA through FY 1991. Revises part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) provisions of title VI. Eliminates contract provisions, but retains grant provisions, for language and area centers and programs under part A. Sets forth separate provisions for the graduate and undergraduate aspects of such centers and programs. Adds provisions focusing on: (1) the foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and (2) instruction and research on issues in world affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) make grants to institutions of higher education or combinations of such institutions to pay stipends for individuals undergoing advanced training in approved centers or programs for language, area studies, and international education under part A; and (2) award, on the basis of a national competition, stipends to students beginning their third year of graduate training in a specialty language with multidisciplinary area training. Replaces provisions relating to international studies centers with provisions for language resource centers. Requires such centers to serve as resources to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. Sets forth some authorized activities for such centers. Revises provisions for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs. Adds provisions for model program grants to improve and expand foreign language studies. Bases institutional eligibility for such grants on certain foreign language requirements. Adds provisions for intensive summer language institutes. Includes among the types of research and studies which may be assisted under part A the application of proficiency tests and standards across all areas of instruction and classroom use. Revises provisions for equitable distribution of funds for language and area centers to require the Secretary to employ separate but equally rigorous criteria for undergraduate and graduate programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) and for part B (Business and International Education) through FY 1991. Restructures the membership and duties of the Advisory Board which advises the Secretary on the conduct of programs under title VI. Directs the Advisory Board to advise the Secretary and the Congress on adequate budget levels for parts A and B of title VI. Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) conduct a study on the establishment of a National Endowment for International Studies; and (2) report, within six months after enactment of this Act, on such study, with recommendations, to the Congress. Part F: Construction and Renovation - Amends title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) of HEA to extend through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) part A grants for undergraduate facilities; (2) part B grants for graduate facilities; and (3) part C loans for academic facilities. Amends part C loan provisions to extend the authorization period for granting a borrower the option of early repayment at computed discount. Redesignates part D as part E. Adds a new part D, Housing and Other Educational Facilities Loans to title VII of HEA. (Makes funds available for this new part from title IV of the Housing Act of 1950.) Establishes the College Construction Loan Insurance Association. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the participation of the U.S. Government and the Student Loan Market Association in a private, for-profit College Construction Loan Insurance Association that will: (1) guarantee, insure, and reinsure various securities the proceeds of which are substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; (2) guarantee,insure, and reinsure leases of property substantially to be used for an education facilities purpose; and (3) issue letters of credit and undertake obligations in order to increase the availability of funds for educational facilities and equipment. Provides for the establishment of the Corporation and for the issuing of annual reports by the Corporation to the President and the Congress. Part G: Cooperative Education - Amends title VIII (Cooperative Education) of HEA to extend the authorization of appropriations for the cooperative education program through FY 1991. Reserves portions of such funds for each fiscal year as follows: (1) a minimum of 75 percent for grants to institutions of higher education and combinations of such institutions for cooperative education; (2) a maximum of 12 1/2 percent for demonstration projects; (3) a maximum of ten percent for training and resource centers; and (4) a maximum of two and one-half percent for research. Revises provisions for grants by the Secretary of Education to cooperative education programs which provide alternating or parallel periods of academic study and of public or private employment. Raises the limit on the amount of such grant to $500,000 per institution of higher education, or $345,000 per such an institution when in combination with other such institutions receiving a single grant. Revises application requirements for such grants. Lowers the percentage of the cost of carrying out an application which may be the maximum Federal share for each of the first three years of a grant (retains the maximum percentages for the fourth and fifth years of the grant which are provided under current law). Allows former grant recipients to reapply for further grants under specified conditions. Sets forth factors to be given special consideration in the approval of applications for such grants, including the extent to which: (1) programs in the academic discipline for which the application is made have had a favorable reception by public and private sector employers; (2) the institution is committed to cooperative education, as demonstrated by plans made to continue the program after the Federal assistance ends; and (3) the institution is committed to extending cooperative education on an institution-wide basis for all students who can benefit. Sets forth provisions for grants and contracts for cooperative education: (1) demonstration and innovation projects; (2) training and resource centers; and (3) research. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to and such contracts with: (1) institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions; and (2) other public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations, whenever such grants or contracts will make an especially significant contribution to attaining the objectives of such projects, centers, and research. Part H: Graduate and Professional Programs - Subpart 1: Grants to Institutions of Higher Education - Repeals part A (Grants to Institutions of Higher Education) of title IX (Graduate Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study - Increases the maximum institutional and individual grant amounts for graduate and professional study under HEA for institutions and individuals. Establishes a minimum institutional payment. Allows graduate school departments to apply for such grants. Extends the authorization of appropriations for fellowships for graduate and professional study through FY 1991. Subpart 3: National Graduate Fellows Program - Extends and limits the authorization of appropriations for the National Graduate Fellows Program through FY 1991. Requires that awardees under such program be known as Jacob J. Javits Fellows. Reconstitutes the National Graduate Fellows Program Fellowship Board. Makes the Secretary of Education responsible for appointing Board members, and for assuring that they are broadly knowledgeable about and have experience in doctoral education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Subpart 4: Training in the Legal Profession - Extends the authorization of specified appropriations for HEA legal training programs through FY 1991. Subpart 5: Law School Clinical Experience Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for Law School Clinical Experience Programs under HEA through FY 1991. Part I: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education through FY 1991. Establishes a program of grants to and contracts with higher education institutions and other agencies and organizations for innovative projects for community services and student financial independence. Authorizes appropriations for such program through FY 1991. Establishes a Community College Unit in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program through FY 1991. Part J: Urban University Program - Repeals title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA. Part K: Miscellaneous Higher Education Programs - Extends the authorization for the Territorial Student Assistance Treatment Program through FY 1991. Extends the authorization for the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility through FY 1991. Establishes in the legislative branch a Joint Study Commission on Postsecondary Institutional Recognition. Directs the Commission to study the institutional and programmatic recognition process used by the Department of Education in determining institutional or programmatic eligibility for student participation in Federal student assistance programs under HEA. Directs the Commission to report on such study to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Adds provisions requiring disclosures of certain foreign gifts received by educational institutions. Requires the institution to report to the Secretary the foreign source and the amount of such gifts worth more than $100,000. Part L: Robert A. Taft Institute - Amends the Education Amendments of 1980 to extend through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations for the Robert A. Taft Institute. Title III: Education Administration - Part A: Research and Improvement - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise provisions relating to education and statistics. (Conforms GEPA provisions to an executive reorganization whereby functions of the National Institute of Education are transferred to the Office of Education Research and Improvement and functions of the National Center for Educational Statistics are transferred to the Center for Statistics.) Revises the declaration of policies relating to the Federal role in educational research and improvement. Declares that it is the purpose of the Office of Education Research and Improvement (OERI) to carry out such educational research and improvement policies. Provides that OERI shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Provides that OERI shall include: (1) the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement; (2) the Center for Education Statistics; and (3) such other units as the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of OERI. Sets forth research and development priorities for OERI. Sets forth provisions relating to the membership and functions of the National Advisory Council on the Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on OERI activities, and on education, educational research, and data gathering in general. Sets forth various authorities of the Secretary in carrying out OERI activities, including limited hiring authority. Sets forth requirements which the Secretary must meet in making awards to carry out OERI activities. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out OERI functions, to support: (1) regional educational laboratories; (2) research and development centers; (3) meritorious unsolicited proposals for educational research and related authorized activities; and (4) proposals that the Secretary specifically invites or requests which meet priority research and development needs. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain research fellowships in the OERI. Directs OERI to carry out through a nonprofit organization the National Assessment for Education (NEAP). Retains provisions relating to NEAP and its Assessment Policy Committee. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for periodic review of NEAP; (2) report to the Congress and the President on the review's findings and recommendations; and (3) consider such findings and recommendations in designing the competition to select the nonprofit organization through which OERI carries out NEAP. Extends through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations to carry out NEAP. Requires that at least 90 percent of such funds be expended through grants, cooperative agreements, or contract. Authorizes OERI to administer NEAP funds for any other Federal agencies which use funds to support a single NEAP project. Sets forth provisions transferring functions of the National Center for Education Statistics within the Office of the Assistant Secretary to the Center for Education Statistics (the Center) within OERI. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director. Adds to the Center's functions: (1) the analysis of educational data; and (2) the collection of uniform data from the States on the financing of elementary and secondary education. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the condition of education in the United States; and (2) areas of critical need for additional qualified education personnel. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to revise a salary cap as it relates to certain OERI personnel. Prohibits the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, the Advisory Council on Education Statistics, and their members from using any staff, facilities, equipment, supplies, or franking privileges of such councils for activities unrelated to council purposes. Repeals GEPA provisions relating to control of paperwork. Part B: Study on the Escalating Cost of Higher Education - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study on the escalating cost of higher education. Sets forth requirements, including consultation requirements, for such study. Directs the Comptroller General, within one year of the enactment of this Act, to report on such study with recommendations, to the Congress. Part C: Study on Equitable Funding on Financial Aid for Farm Families - Directs the Secretary of Education to study financial aid formulas for students in higher education institutions, with special attention to devising a more equitable formula for farm families. Part D: Use of Volunteers in the Classroom Study - Directs the Secretary of Education to study how volunteers can best be used in the classroom. Sets forth requirements for such study. Directs the Secretary to also contract with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a concurrent independent study on the use of volunteers in the classroom. Directs the Secretary and the Academy, within one year after enactment of this Act, to submit their reports on such studies, with recommendations, to the Congress. Requires that Department of Education administration funds be used for such study. Title IV: Pinpoint Disaster Assistance under Federal Impact Aid - Directs the Secretary of Education to accept an application for pinpoint disaster assistance under the Federal impact aid program from the Preston County Board of Education, West Virginia. Title V: Native American Culture and Art Development - Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes a corporation to be known as the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development, with a board of trustees including Native Americans from the private sector appointed by the President and Members of Congress. Identifies the Institute's primary functions as: (1) scholarly study and instruction in Native American arts and culture; and (2) the establishment of degree-awarding programs in Native American art and culture. Establishes within the Institute: (1) a Center for Culture and Art Studies; and (2) a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Establishes the Institute as a nonprofit and tax-exempt organization. Prohibits the Institute from engaging in any political activity regarding elective public office. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Directs the President of the Institute to submit an annual report to the Congress and the Board. Establishes the Institute of American Indian Arts, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the site of the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: United States Institute of Peace Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the United States Institute of Peace Act to extend through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act. Makes such funds available until expended. Title VII: Appropriation Provision - Makes funds appropriated under specified Federal law available for direct appropriation. Title VIII: Shelter for the Homeless in the District of Columbia - Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Administration should: (1) immediately release a portion of the funds which it has agreed to provide for the renovation of a specified homeless shelter in the District of Columbia; and (2) release the remaining funds upon the official conveyance of title to the shelter from the Federal Government to the District of Columbia.

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with amendment, S. Rept. 99-296) Higher Education Amendments of 1986 - Revises and reauthorizes through FY 1991 specified programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Title I: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students - Subpart 1: Pell Grants - Extends the Pell Grant program. Revises program eligibility requirements. Prohibits Pell Grants to students from families with a $30,000 or more (after tax) income. Revises maximum grant limits and cost of attendance formulas and rules. Sets forth a separate new family contribution schedule for Pell Grants. Sets forth a procedure with respect to award errors and overpayments. Subpart 2: Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Revises program provisions relating to: (1) the maximum amount of such grants; (2) priority for needy students; and (3) apportionment. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the State Student Incentive Grants Program (SSIG). Allows States to use SSIG funds to establish programs of campus-based community service work learning study grants to eligible students. Revises provisions relating to participation of certain institutions in the SSIG program. Sets forth a Federal share limitation under such program. Subpart 4: Student Support Service Programs - Authorizes appropriations for Student Support Service Programs. Revises program provisions, including provisions for veterans and for outreach and staff development. Gives priority to outreach programs which include programs encouraging application to graduate school by low-income and first-generation college and university students in their junior and senior year. Subpart 5: Special Programs for Students Whose Families are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork - Authorizes appropriations for special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork. Subpart 6: Honors Scholarship Program - Authorizes appropriations for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program. Part B: Guaranteed Loans - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) (including the Federally-Insured Student Loan Program). Requires all students to undergo a needs test under GSL. Permits certain loans taken by parents or students to offset the expected family contribution. Increases the maximum GSL loan limits. Increases the GSL interest rate for new borrowers to ten percent during the repayment period. Requires that GSL funds be disbursed to the institution by check or other means that is payable to, and requires the endorsement or other certification by, the student borrower. Prohibits an institution from refusing to provide any eligible lender with a statement which permits a student to receive a GSL loan. (Thus prohibits the institutional practice of forcing students to use certain lenders.) Limits administrative fees ("insurance premiums") to not more than three percent per loan for the first year of the loan. Directs the lender, upon the borrower's request, to provide a revised repayment schedule based on graduated and income-sensitive repayments. Permits rounding off monthly repayments to the next highest multiple of five dollars. Prohibits States and nonprofit private institutions or organizations from: (1) offering premiums, payments, or other inducements to any educational institution or its employees in order to secure student loan applicants; (2) conducting unsolicited mailings of student loan applications to secondary school students; or (3) conducting fraudulent or misleading advertising concerning loan availability. Directs the Secretary, for loan repayment deferment purposes, to approve any course of study at a foreign university that is accepted for the completion of a recognized international fellowship program. Requires financial and compliance audits of the guarantee agency at least once every two years. Allows guarantee agencies to be reimbursed for the administrative costs of supplemental preclaims assistance of up to the lesser of $100 or two percent of the outstanding principal of each loan. Revises the rates of reinsurance to the guaranty agencies for default rates. Requires, in each State, that the guaranty agency or an eligible lender make loans directly, or through an agreement with an eligible lender, to students who are eligible but otherwise unable to obtain loans under GSL provisions. Increases the annual and aggregate loan limits under the auxiliary loan program. Adds a new program for loan consolidation. Includes costs of collection under allowable recovery costs. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), each guaranty agency, eligible lender, and subsequent holder of the student loan to enter into agreements with credit bureau organizations to exchange information concerning student borrowers. Sets forth requirements relating to such credit bureau reports. Directs the Secretary to limit, suspend, or terminate a lender's participation in the GSL program upon finding that the lender has not exercised diligence in collecting loans or has engaged in misleading or fraudulent advertising or committed other specified violations. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil penalties for certain violations by lenders, including misrepresentation of charges. Includes stock savings banks and trust companies under the definition of eligible lender. Prohibits lenders from offering certain inducements to educational institutions or eligible borrowers and from engaging in fraudulent or misleading advertising. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for foreign medical schools to qualify as eligible institutions. Sets forth guidelines for such criteria. Decreases the special allowance paid to lenders, with specified exceptions. Sets forth provisions relating to the authority of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Requires Sallie Mae to notify certain congressional committees before implementing certain programs. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study of the practices of State guaranty agencies and national guarantors under the GSL program; and (2) report on such study to specified congressional committees by June 30, 1987. Part C: Work Study Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for college work study programs (CWS). Revises provisions for apportionment of CWS program funds. Sets forth rules for a proprietary institution's employment of students under the CWS program. Authorizes use of specified portions of CWS program funds for: (1) community services job location and development programs; and (2) community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families. Part D: Direct Loans - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Direct Student Loan Program (NDSL). Revises provisions for apportionment of NDSL funds. Penalizes institutions with specified excessive NDSL default rates by reducing or eliminating new Federal capital contributions to such institutions. Provides for assignment and referral of NDSL loans for collection under specified conditions. Requires institutions to give priority to students with exceptional need in the making of NDSL loans. Allows consumer reporting agencies to make reports containing information received from the Secretary regarding the status of an NDSL borrower's account for up to seven years from a specified date. Requires institutions to give descriptions of default penalties to student borrowers. Increases loan limits under the NDSL program. Permits rounding off monthly repayments to the next highest multiple of five dollars. Permits assessment of charges for failure to pay all or part of an installment. Allows for partial cancellation of a student's NDSL debt for volunteer service under the Peace Corps Act or under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Authorizes the Secretary to attempt to collect an NDSL loan in default by any means authorized for collecting claims of the United States. Directs the Secretary to continue such attempt until all appropriate collection efforts have been expended. Part E: General Student Aid Provisions - Revises need analysis provisions for student aid under HEA. Sets forth policies and basic criteria which the Secretary is to follow in preparing schedules of expected family contributions. Sets forth a special rule for dislocated workers. Grants discretion to financial aid administrators under specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary to submit the schedule for expected family contributions to specified congressional officers by March 1 of the year preceding the year for which the schedule is applicable. Requires that such schedule be approved by the Congress. Establishes a simplified needs analysis for families who have adjusted gross incomes of less than $15,000 and are eligible to file a 1040A Federal tax form. Sets forth the elements of such simplified needs analysis. Sets forth a master calendar with which the Secretary must comply in: (1) developing and distributing Federal and multiple data entry forms; (2) allocating campus-based and Pell Grant funds; and (3) reallocation of any such funds. Requires the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees of the completion of such calendar, and to report on any unmet deadlines, with detailed plans for meeting subsequent deadlines. Allows institutions to use up to ten percent of their allotments under SEOG, CWS, and NDSL programs to serve less-than-half-time students. Requires that a student be making satisfactory progress (including at least a cumulative C average) in order to be eligible for financial aid programs under HEA. Provides for waivers of such requirement under special circumstances. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a five-year study of the impact, if any, of such requirement on student grades; and (2) report to the Congress after each year of such study. Bars eligibility for financial aid to a student who owes a refund on any grant or is in default on any loan from any institution under HEA. Requires students to file their social security numbers, or equivalent identification, in applying for such aid. Sets forth a six-year statute of limitations for collection of accounts by specified parties under HEA. Provides for a combined repayment plan, upon request of the borrower, with respect to all loans eligible for consolidation under specified provisions of HEA and of the Public Health Service Act. Requires any institution that advertises job placement rates as a means of attracting student enrollment to publish substantiating evidence in its catalog. Requires institutions participating in the GSL program to inform eligible borrowers about the availability of State grant assistance. Extends (through FY 1986) the authorization of appropriations for training in financial aid and student support services. Revises student aid program participation agreements to require institutions to use program funds and any interest or earnings thereon solely for program purposes. Requires audits at least once every two years. Establishes an independent Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in the Department of Education to advise the Congress and the Secretary on student financial matters. Terminates the Committee one year after its first meeting. Title II: Institutional and Program Assistance - Part A: Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning - Repeals title I (Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning) under HEA. Provides for a National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Part B: Libraries - Reauthorizes HEA provisions relating to libraries. Revises provisions relating to college library resources to set forth need-based eligibility criteria. Authorizes a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the College Library Resource Program. Permits institutions that do not otherwise qualify as research libraries to provide additional information to demonstrate the national or international significance for scholarly research of the particular collection described in their grant proposal under provisions for strengthening research library resources. Repeals provisions relating to the National Periodical System. Part C: Institutional Aid - Amends title III (Institutional Aid) of HEA to revise institutional aid programs, especially in relation to the development needs of historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with large concentrations of minority, low-income students. Includes as eligible institutions, for purposes of the title III part A (Strengthening Institutions) grants program, any institution of higher education which meets specified requirements and which has an enrollment of which at least: (1) 20 percent are Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic students, or combination thereof; (2) 60 percent are American Indian, Alaska Native, or Aleut, or combination thereof; or (3) five percent are Native Hawaiian, American Samoan, Micronesian, Guamian (Chamorro), or Northern Marianan, or any combination thereof. Establishes under title III part B, "Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (which replaces the current part B, Aid to Institutions with Special Needs). Defines a "part B institution" as any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964 and whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans. Sets forth authorized uses for grants allotted to institutions under the part B program. Directs the Secretary to make allotments to part B institutions according to formulas based on number of: (1) Pell grant recipients; (2) graduates; and (3) graduates in attendance at graduate or professional schools in degree programs in disciplines in which blacks are underrepresented. Sets forth a special rule regarding allotments to Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia. Sets forth a special merger rule. Sets forth provisions for applications for part B grant allotments. Sets forth provisions for part B program grants to professional and graduate institutions. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, to award such grants to each of listed postgraduate institutions that the Secretary determines to be making a substantial contribution to the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, or other graduate education opportunities for black Americans. Prohibits any such grant in excess of $500,000 unless the postgraduate institution assures that 50 percent of the cost of the purposes for which the grant is made will be paid from non-Federal sources. Limits the duration of any such grant to five years. Provides that any one undergraduate or postgraduate institution may receive no more than two such five-year grants. Allows use of such grants for: (1) any of the authorized uses of part B allotment grants; (2) contribution development offices; and (3) institutional endowments. Sets forth application requirements. Provides that independent professional or graduate institutions eligible for such grants include: (1) Morehouse School of Medicine; (2) Meharry Medical School; (3) Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; (4) Atlanta University; and (5) Tuskegee Institute School of Veterinary Medicine. Sets forth reporting and audit requirements and penalties for misuse of funds. Revises title III part C (Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B) to rename the "endowment grants" under such part "challenge grants." Makes technical and conforming amendments to eligibility requirements under such part. Reduces the maximum amount of any such part C challenge grant for FY 1987. (Retains the current maximum for FY 1988 and succeeding fiscal years.) Revises part D (General Provisions) under title III. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register all policies and procedures required to exercise the authority to approve applications for title III assistance. Prohibits any other criteria, policies, or procedures from being applicable for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA in making eligibility determinations under part A of title III; and (2) advance the base-year forward following each annual grant cycle. Requires the Secretary to waive specified part A institutional eligibility requirements (involving an institution's having a relatively high percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV of HEA) in the case of an institution which is: (1) extensively subsidized by the State in which it is located and charges low or no tuition; (2) serving a substantial number of low- and middle-income students as a percentage of its total student population; (3) contributing substantially to increasing higher education opportunities for educationally disadvantaged, underrepresented, or minority students, who are low-income individuals; or (4) substantially increasing higher educational opportunities for individuals in rural or other isolated areas unserved by postsecondary institutions. Includes Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Basin institutions which have been determined eligible under part D (although not satisfying a specified eligibility criterion involving an institution's having relatively low and general expenditures) among those institutions which must be included in an annual report of the Secretary to the Congress. Includes among those reasons for which the Secretary may grant a waiver of specified eligibility requirements (involving an institution's being accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency and its being authorized to offer bachelor's or junior or community college degrees) a determination that such waiver will substantially increase higher education opportunities appropriate to the needs of Hispanic Americans or Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to assure that representatives of historically black colleges, Hispanic institutions, Native American institutions, and Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Hawaiians, are included as readers on title III application review panels. Revises provisions for grants to encourage cooperative arrangements to include such arrangements between title III aid recipients and institutions not receiving such assistance. Includes benefit to the applicant institutions as a priority criterion in making such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for the following title III programs: (1) part A, Strengthening Institutions; (2) part B, Strengthening Historically Black College and Universities (with a separate authorization for part B provisions for Professional and Graduate Institutions); and (3) part C, Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B. Sets forth special payment rules to reflect changes in part A and part B of title III. Directs the Secretary to reserve specified amounts for junior and community colleges. Directs the Secretary to give priority, under circumstances where funds exceed a specified amount, to applications from eligible institutions with significant groups of students who are minority underrepresented in higher education, or educationally disadvantaged. Part D: Teacher Training and Development - Subpart 1: Teacher Training Programs for Higher Educational Personnel - Repeals part B (Teacher Training Programs) of Title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Training for School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children - Repeals Part C (Training for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children in Areas with a shortage) of title V of HEA. Subpart 3: Coordination - Repeals part D (Coordination of Education Professional Development) of title V of HEA. Subpart 4: Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program. Subpart 5: The Christa McAuliffe Talented Teacher Fellowship Program - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the (renamed) Christa McAuliffe Talented Teacher Program. Part E: International Education - Revises and reauthorizes programs under title VI (International Education Programs) of HEA. Revises part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) provisions of title VI. Eliminates contract provisions, but retains grant provisions, for language and area centers and programs under part A. Sets forth separate provisions for the graduate and undergraduate aspects of such centers and programs. Adds provisions focusing on: (1) the foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and (2) instruction and research on issues in world affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) make grants to institutions of higher education or combinations of such institutions to pay stipends for individuals undergoing advanced training in approved centers or programs for language, area studies, and international education under part A; and (2) award, on the basis of a national competition, stipends to students beginning their third year of graduate training in a specialty language with multidisciplinary area training. Replaces provisions relating to international studies centers with provisions for language resource centers. Requires such centers to serve as resources to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. Sets forth some authorized activities for such centers. Revises provisions for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs. Adds provisions for model program grants to improve and expand foreign language studies. Bases institutional eligibility for such grants on certain foreign language requirements. Adds provisions for intensive summer language institutes. Includes among the types of research and studies which may be assisted under part A the application of proficiency tests and standards across all areas of instruction and classroom use. Revises provisions for equitable distribution of funds for language and area centers to require the Secretary to employ separate but equally rigorous criteria for undergraduate and graduate programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for part A (International and Foreign Language Studies) and for part B (Business and International Education). Restructures the membership and duties of the Advisory Board which advises the Secretary on the conduct of programs under title VI. Directs the Advisory Board to advise the Secretary and the Congress on adequate budget levels for parts A and B of title VI. Part F: Construction and Renovation - Amends title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) of HEA to extend the authorization of appropriations for: (1) part A grants for undergraduate facilities; (2) part B grants for graduate facilities; and (3) part C loans for academic facilities. Amends part C loan provisions to extend the authorization period for granting a borrower the option of early repayment at a computed discount. Redesignates the current part D as part E, and adds a new part D, Housing and Other Educational Facilities Loans, to title VII of HEA. (Makes funds available for this new part from title IV of the Housing Act of 1950.) Part G: Cooperative Education - Amends title VIII (Cooperative Education) of HEA to extend the authorization of appropriations for the cooperative education program. Reserves portions of such funds for each fiscal year as follows: (1) a minimum of 75 percent for grants to institutions of higher education and combinations of such institutions for cooperative education; (2) a maximum of 12 1/2 percent for demonstration projects; (3) a maximum of ten percent for training and resource centers; and (4) a maximum of two and one-half percent for research. Revises provisions for grants by the Secretary of Education to cooperative education programs which provide alternating or parallel periods of academic study and of public or private employment. Raises the limit on the amount of such grant to $500,000 per institution of higher education, or $345,000 per such an institution when in combination with other such institutions receiving a single grant. Revises application requirements for such grants. Lowers the percentage of the cost of carrying out an application which may be the maximum Federal share for each of the first three years of a grant (retains the maximum percentages for the fourth and fifth years of the grant which are provided under current law). Allows former grant recipients to reapply for further grants under specified conditions. Sets forth factors to be given special consideration in the approval of applications for such grants, including the extent to which: (1) programs in the academic discipline for which the application is made have had a favorable reception by public and private sector employers; (2) the institution is committed to cooperative education, as demonstrated by plans made to continue the program after the Federal assistance ends; and (3) the institution is committed to extending cooperative education on an institution-wide basis for all students who can benefit. Sets forth provisions for grants and contracts for cooperative education: (1) demonstration and innovation projects; (2) training and resource centers; and (3) research. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to and such contracts with: (1) institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions; and (2) other public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations, whenever such grants or contracts will make an especially significant contribution to attaining the objectives of such projects, centers, and research. Part H: Graduate and Professional Programs - Subpart 1: Grants to Institutions of Higher Education - Repeals part A (Grants to Institutions of Higher Education) of title IX (Graduate Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study - Increases the maximum institutional and individual grant amounts for graduate and professional study under HEA for institutions and individuals. Establishes a minimum institutional payment. Allows graduate school departments to apply for such grants. Extends the authorization of appropriations for fellowships for graduate and professional study. Subpart 3: National Graduate Fellows Program - Extends and limits the authorization of appropriations for the National Graduate Fellows Program through FY 1991. Requires that awardees under such program be known as Jacob J. Javits Fellows. Subpart 4: Training in the Legal Profession - Extends the authorization of specified appropriations for HEA legal training programs. Subpart 5: Law School Clinical Experience Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for Law School Clinical Experience Programs under HEA. Part I: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Establishes a program of grants to and contracts with higher education institutions and other agencies and organizations for innovative projects for community services and student financial independence. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Establishes a Community College Unit in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program. Part J: Urban University Program - Repeals title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA. Part K: Miscellaneous Higher Education Programs - Extends the authorization for the Territorial Student Assistance Treatment Program. Extends the authorization for the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility. Establishes in the legislative branch a Joint Study Commission on Postsecondary Institutional Recognition. Directs the Commission to study the institutional and programmatic recognition process used by the Department of Education in determining institutional or programmatic eligibility for student participation in Federal student assistance programs under HEA. Directs the Commission to report on such study to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Adds provisions requiring disclosures of certain foreign gifts received by educational institutions. Requires the institution to report to the Secretary the foreign source and the amount of such gifts worth more than $100,000. Title III: Educational Research and Improvement - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise provisions relating to education and statistics. (Conforms GEPA provisions to an executive reorganization whereby functions of the National Institute of Education are transferred to the Office of Education Research and Improvement and functions of the National Center for Educational Statistics are transferred to the Center for Statistics.) Revises the declaration of policies relating to the Federal role in educational research and improvement. Declares that it is the purpose of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) to carry out such educational research and improvement policies. Provides that OERI shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Provides that OERI shall include: (1) the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement; (2) the Center for Education Statistics; and (3) such other units as the Secretary considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of OERI. Sets forth research and development priorities for OERI. Sets forth provisions relating to the membership and functions of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on OERI activities, and on education, educational research, and data gathering in general. Sets forth various authorities of the Secretary in carrying out OERI activities, including limited hiring authority. Sets forth requirements which the Secretary must meet in making awards to carry out OERI activities. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out OERI functions, to support: (1) regional educational laboratories; (2) research and development centers; (3) meritorious unsolicited proposals for educational research and related authorized activities; and (4) proposals that the Secretary specifically invites or requests which meet priority research and development needs. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain research fellowships in the OERI. Directs OERI to carry out (through a nonprofit organization) the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Retains provisions relating to NAEP and its Assessment Policy Committee. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for periodic review of NAEP; (2) report to the Congress and the President on the review's findings and recommendations; and (3) consider such findings and recommendations in designing the competition to select the nonprofit organization through which OERI carries out NAEP. Extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out NAEP. Requires that at least 90 percent of such funds be expended through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts. Authorizes OERI to administer NAEP funds for any other Federal agencies which use funds to support a single NAEP project. Sets forth provisions transferring functions of the National Center for Education Statistics within the Office of the Assistant Secretary to the Center for Education Statistics (the Center) within OERI. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director. Adds to the Center's functions: (1) the analysis of educational data; and (2) the collection of uniform data from the States on the financing of elementary and secondary education. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the condition of education in the United States; and (2) areas of critical need for additional qualified education personnel. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to revise a salary cap as it relates to certain OERI personnel. Prohibits the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, the Advisory Council on Education Statistics, and their members from using any staff, facilities, equipment, supplies, or franking privileges of such councils for activities unrelated to council purposes. Repeals GEPA provisions relating to control of paperwork.

Higher Education Amendments of 1985 - Revises and reauthorizes through FY 1991 specified programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Title I: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students - Subpart I: Pell Grants - Extends the Pell Grant program. Revises program eligibility requirements. Revises maximum grant limits and cost of attendance formulas and rules. Sets forth a separate new family contribution schedule for Pell Grants. Sets forth a procedure with respect to award errors and overpayments. Subpart 2: Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Revises program provisions relating to: (1) the maximum amount of such grants; (2) priority for needy students; and (3) apportionment. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the State Student Incentive Grants Program. Sets forth a Federal share limitation under such program. Subpart 4: Student Support Service Programs - Authorizes appropriations for Student Support Service Programs. Revises program provisions, including provisions for veterans and for outreach and staff development. Subpart 5: Special Programs for Students Whose Families are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork - Authorizes appropriations for the program referred to under this subpart. Part B: Guaranteed Loans - Extends and revises the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (including the Federally-Insured Student Loan Program). Part C: Work Study Programs - Extends and revises work study programs (including work study for community service learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families). Part D: Direct Loans - Extends and revises the Direct Student Loan Program (including loan priority for needy students and interest rates on loans made after July 1, 1986). Part E: General Student Aid Provisions - Revises various provisions relating to HEA title IV (Student Assistance) programs generally. Title II: Institutional and Program Assistance - Part A: Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning - Repeals title I (Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning) under HEA. Provides for a National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Part B: Libraries - Reauthorizes HEA provisions relating to libraries. Revises provisions relating to college library resources. Authorizes a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the College Library Resource Program. Strengthens research library resources. Repeals specified provisions relating to libraries. Part C: Institutional Aid - Reauthorizes provisions relating to institutional aid. Part D: Teacher Training and Development - Subpart I: Teacher Training Programs for Higher Educational Personnel - Repeals part B (Teacher Training Programs) of Title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Training for School Teachers To Teach Handicapped Children - Repeals part C (Training for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children in Areas with a shortage) of title V of HEA. Subpart 3: Coordination - Repeals part D (Coordination of Education Professional Development) of title V of HEA. Subpart 4: Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program - Authorizes specified appropriations for the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 5: National Talented Teacher Fellowship Program - Authorizes specified appropriations for the National Talented Teacher Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Part E: International Education - Reauthorizes provisions related to international and foreign language study (including provisions on language and area centers, foreign language resource centers, summer institutes, and research). Authorizes specified appropriations for the provision of international education for FY 1987 through 1991. Part F: Construction and Renovation - (Reserved.) Part G: Cooperative Education - Authorizes specified appropriations for cooperative education for FY 1987 through 1991. Authorizes grants (and contracts for demonstration projects) for cooperative education programs. Part H: Graduate and Professional Programs - Subpart I: Grants to Institutions of Higher Education - Repeals part A (Grants to Institutions of Higher Education) of title IX (Graduate Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study - Increases the maximum institutional and individual grant amounts for graduate and professional study under HEA for institutions and individuals. Establishes a minimum institutional payment. Authorizes specified appropriations for fellowships for graduate and professional study for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 3: National Graduate Fellows Program - Extends and limits the authorization of appropriations for the National Graduate Fellows Program through FY 1991. Requires that awardees under such program be known as Jacob J. Javits Fellows. Subpart 4: Training in the Legal Profession - Authorizes specified appropriations for HEA legal training programs for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 5: Law School Clinical Experience Programs - Authorizes specified appropriations for Law School Clinical Experience Programs under HEA for FY 1987 through 1991. Part I: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Authorizes specified appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education for FY 1987 through 1991. Establishes a program of grants to and contract with higher education institutions and other agencies and organizations for innovative projects for community services and student financial independence. Authorizes specified appropriations for such program for FY 1987 through 1991. Establishes a Community College Unit in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Authorizes specified appropriations for the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Part J: Urban University Program - Repeals title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA. Title III: Regional Education Laboratories and Research and Development Centers - Amends a specified provision of the General Education Provisions Act to reauthorize appropriations for regional educational laboratories and research and development centers through 1991.