20 U.S.C. § 802 : US Code - Section 802: Fellowships for city planning, management, housing specialists, and persons with general capacity in urban affairs and problems

Search 20 U.S.C. § 802 : US Code - Section 802: Fellowships for city planning, management, housing specialists, and persons with general capacity in urban affairs and problems

(a) Criteria
The Secretary is authorized to provide fellowships for the
graduate training of professional city planning, management, and
housing specialists, and other persons who wish to develop a
general capacity in urban affairs and problems as herein provided.
Persons shall be selected for such fellowships solely on the basis
of ability and upon the recommendation of the Urban Studies
Fellowship Advisory Board established pursuant to subsection (b) of
this section. Fellowships shall be solely for training in public
and private nonprofit institutions of higher education having
programs of graduate study in the field of city planning or in
related fields (including architecture, civil engineering,
economics, municipal finance, public administration, urban affairs,
and sociology) which programs are oriented to training for careers
in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and
community development.
(b) Urban Studies Fellowship Board
There is hereby established the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory
Board (hereinafter referred to as the "Board"), which shall consist
of nine members to be appointed by the Secretary as follows: Three
from public institutions of higher learning and three from private
nonprofit institutions of higher education, who are the heads of
departments which provide academic courses appropriately related to
the fields referred to in subsection (a) of this section, and three
from national organizations which are directly concerned with
problems relating to urban, regional, and community development.
The Board shall meet upon the request of the Secretary and shall
make recommendations to him with respect to persons to be selected
for fellowships under this section. Members of the Board shall be
entitled to receive transportation expenses and a per diem in lieu
of subsistence as authorized for members of advisory committees
created pursuant to section 1701h of title 12.