Section 1135c-2 · Supportable activities

(1) providing needed services to groups of minority institutions or providing training for scientists and engineers from eligible minority institutions;

(2) providing needed services to groups of institutions serving significant numbers of minority students or providing training for scientists and engineers from such institutions to improve their ability to train minority students in science or engineering;

(3) assisting minority institutions to improve the quality of preparation of their students for graduate work or careers in science, mathematics, and technology;

(4) improving access of undergraduate students at minority institutions to careers in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering;

(5) improving access of minority students, particularly minority women, to careers in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering;

(6) improving access for pre-college minority students to careers in science, mathematics, and engineering through community outreach programs conducted through colleges and universities eligible for support through the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Programs;

(7) disseminating activities, information, and educational materials designed to address specific barriers to the entry of minorities into science and technology, and conducting activities and studies concerning the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities into scientific careers;

(8) supporting curriculum models to encourage minority student participation in research careers in science, mathematics, and technology; and

(9) improving the capability of minority institutions for self-assessment, management, and evaluation of their science, mathematics, and engineering programs and dissemination of their results.