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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Chapter VI
[Docket ID ED–2014–OPE–0034; CFDA
Number: 84.220A.]

Proposed priorities—Centers for
International Business Education
(CIBE) Program
Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Proposed priorities.
AGENCY:

The Acting Assistant
Secretary for Postsecondary Education
proposes priorities for the CIBE Program
administered by the International and
Foreign Language Education office
(IFLE). The Acting Assistant Secretary
may use these priorities for
competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2014
and later years.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before April 17, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments submitted by fax or by email
or those submitted after the comment
period. To ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under ‘‘Are you new to the site?’’
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about these proposed
regulations, address them to Patricia
Barrett, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5142,
Potomac Center Plaza (PCP),
Washington, DC 20202–2700.
Privacy Note: The Department’s
policy is to make all comments received
from members of the public available for
public viewing in their entirety on the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only
information that they wish to make
publicly available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Timothy Duvall
Telephone: (202) 502–7622 or by
email: timothy.duvall@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text

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telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Invitation
to Comment: We invite you to submit
comments regarding these priorities. To
ensure that your comments have
maximum effect in developing the final
priorities, we urge you to identify
clearly the specific proposed priority
that each comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in
complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Orders 12866
and 13563 and their overall requirement
of reducing regulatory burden that
might result from these proposed
priorities. Please let us know of any
further ways we could reduce potential
costs or increase potential benefits
while preserving the effective and
efficient administration of the program.
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all comments about
this notice in Room 6069, 1990 K St.
NW., Washington, DC, between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, Monday through
Friday of each week except Federal
holidays.
Assistance to Individuals with
Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record: On request we will
provide an appropriate accommodation
or auxiliary aid to an individual with a
disability who needs assistance to
review the comments or other
documents in the public rulemaking
record for this notice. If you want to
schedule an appointment for this type of
accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
the CIBE Program is to provide funding
to schools of business for curriculum
development, research, and training on
issues of importance to U.S. trade and
competitiveness.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1130–1.

Proposed Priorities: This notice
contains two proposed priorities.
Background:
We are proposing two priorities. The
first addresses a need to prepare
international business students to enter
the workforce more readily and the
second addresses a gap in the types of
institutions, faculty, and students that
have historically benefitted from the
instruction, training, and outreach
available at centers for international
business education.
We first propose a priority for
applicants that propose to collaborate
with one or more professional
associations and/or businesses on
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employment opportunities for
international business students, such as
internships and work-study
opportunities. In order to meet this
proposed priority, an applicant must
propose to collaborate with one or more
professional associations, businesses, or
firms on activities designed to expand
employment opportunities for
international business students, such as
internships and work/study
opportunities.
The proposed priority encourages
collaborative activities between CIBEs
and international businesses or
professional associations to create
meaningful internship opportunities for
students that will enhance their
employment prospects. Internship
opportunities that integrate classroom
learning with real work experience are
often the result of intentional and
collaborative efforts between
universities and industries. Meaningful
internship experiences enhance
graduates’ prospects for meaningful
employment, and they lead to graduates
who are better able to apply their
learning in the workplace, earn a salary
that enables them to be self-supporting,
and repay their loans rather than
incurring further debt. Moreover,
students with international business
experience are better prepared to
contribute to the work of their
employers, which will enhance the
ability of United States’ businesses to
prosper in an international economy.
We propose a second priority for
applications that propose collaborative
activities with a Minority-Serving
Institution (MSI) or a community
college. Currently the Centers for
International Business Education
collaborate with MSIs and community
colleges only ad hoc. This, however,
limits the extent to which the
instruction, training, and professional
development resources are regularly
available to and accessed by students
and faculty at MSIs and community
colleges. We believe that by requiring
CIBE institutions and MSIs and
community colleges to jointly plan,
conduct, and implement activities, the
international programming, student
instruction, career advising, and faculty
development opportunities on all
campuses will be strengthened and
expanded. These collaborations also
enhance institutional capacity to recruit
students into international business
training.
We believe that by specifying the
types of institutional collaborations that
the CIBEs must engage in, and the types
of collaborative activities they must
conduct, the activities are more likely
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measurable effect on students and
faculty at MSIs and community colleges
and be institutionalized and sustained.
We also believe that successful
institutional collaborations of this
nature will increase the access of
traditionally underserved populations to
opportunities for international business
learning and the visibility of
international business programs and
activities on the campuses of MSIs and
community colleges.
For this priority, we propose a
definition of ‘‘Minority-Serving
Institution’’ that would include
institutions eligible to receive assistance
under §§ 316 through 320 of part A of
Title III, under part B of Title III, or
under Title V of the HEA.
The Department would use this
definition because both Title III and
Title V programs target college student
populations that are underrepresented
in international education. The
Department would like to increase the
representation of these groups through
collaborations between Title III/Title V
institutions and Title VI institutions.
Title III reflects our national interest
to provide support to those institutions
of higher education that serve lowincome and minority students so that
equality of access and quality of
postsecondary education opportunities
may be enhanced for all students. Under
the Title III, institutions may receive
designation of eligibility depending on
their submitted institutional evidence
documenting their student demographic
data.
Title V targets Hispanic-Serving
Institutions because of the high
percentage of Hispanic Americans who
are at risk of not enrolling in or
graduating from institutions of higher
education. The law was designed to
reduce disparities between the
enrollment of non-Hispanic white
students and Hispanic students in
postsecondary education, which
continue to rise.
We propose a definition of
‘‘community college’’ for use with this
priority that is broader than the
definition in the HEA. The definition of
‘‘junior or community college’’ in
section 312(f) of the HEA (20 U.S.C.
1058(f)) excludes institutions that award
bachelor’s and graduate degrees. For the
purpose of this priority, we propose to
include in the definition of ‘‘community
college’’ institutions that offer
bachelor’s or graduate degrees if more
than 50 percent of the degrees and
certificates they award are degrees and
certificates that are not bachelor’s or
graduate degrees. We propose this
definition to include institutions that
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enrolled in programs traditionally
offered by community colleges, such as
associate degree and certificate
programs.
The priorities are:
Proposed Priority 1: Applications that
propose to collaborate with one or more
professional associations and/or
businesses on activities designed to
expand employment opportunities for
international business students, such as
internships and work-study
opportunities.
Proposed Priority 2: Applications that
propose significant and sustained
collaborative activities with a MinorityServing Institution (as defined in this
notice) or a community college (as
defined in this notice). These activities
must be designed to incorporate
international, intercultural, or global
dimensions into the business
curriculum of the MSI or community
college. For the purpose of this priority:
Community college means an
institution that meets the definition in
section 312(f) of the HEA (20 U.S.C.
1058(f)); or an institution of higher
education (as defined in section 101 of
the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1001)) that awards
degrees and certificates, more than 50
percent of which are not bachelor’s
degrees (or an equivalent) or master’s,
professional, or other advanced degrees.
Minority-Serving Institution means an
institution that is eligible to receive
assistance under sections 316 through
320 of part A of Title III, under part B
of Title III, or under Title V of the HEA.
Types of Priorities:
When inviting applications for a
competition using one or more
priorities, we designate the type of each
priority as absolute, competitive
preference, or invitational through a
notice in the Federal Register. The
effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute
priority, we consider only applications
that meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive preference priority:
Under a competitive preference priority,
we give competitive preference to an
application by (1) awarding additional
points, depending on the extent to
which the application meets the priority
(34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2) selecting
an application that meets the priority
over an application of comparable merit
that does not meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
Invitational priority: Under an
invitational priority, we are particularly
interested in applications that meet the
priority. However, we do not give an
application that meets the priority a
preference over other applications (34
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Final Priorities:
We will announce the final priorities
in a notice in the Federal Register. We
will determine the final priorities after
considering responses to this notice and
other information available to the
Department. This notice does not
preclude us from proposing additional
priorities, requirements, definitions, or
selection criteria, subject to meeting
applicable rulemaking requirements.
Note: This notice does not solicit
applications. In any year in which we choose
to use one or more of these priorities, we
invite applications through a notice in the
Federal Register.

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Regulatory Impact Analysis
Under Executive Order 12866, the
Secretary must determine whether this
regulatory action is ‘‘significant’’ and,
therefore, subject to the requirements of
the Executive order and subject to
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Section 3(f) of Executive
Order 12866 defines a ‘‘significant
regulatory action’’ as an action likely to
result in a rule that may—
(1) Have an annual effect on the
economy of $100 million or more, or
adversely affect a sector of the economy,
productivity, competition, jobs, the
environment, public health or safety, or
State, local, or tribal governments or
communities in a material way (also
referred to as an ‘‘economically
significant’’ rule);
(2) Create serious inconsistency or
otherwise interfere with an action taken
or planned by another agency;
(3) Materially alter the budgetary
impacts of entitlement grants, user fees,
or loan programs or the rights and
obligations of recipients thereof; or
(4) Raise novel legal or policy issues
arising out of legal mandates, the
President’s priorities, or the principles
stated in the Executive order.
This proposed regulatory action is not
a significant regulatory action subject to
review by OMB under section 3(f) of
Executive Order 12866.
We have also reviewed this regulatory
action under Executive Order 13563,
which supplements and explicitly
reaffirms the principles, structures, and
definitions governing regulatory review
established in Executive Order 12866.
To the extent permitted by law,
Executive Order 13563 requires that an
agency—
(1) Propose or adopt regulations only
upon a reasoned determination that
their benefits justify their costs
(recognizing that some benefits and
costs are difficult to quantify);

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(2) Tailor its regulations to impose the
least burden on society, consistent with
obtaining regulatory objectives and
taking into account—among other things
and to the extent practicable—the costs
of cumulative regulations;
(3) In choosing among alternative
regulatory approaches, select those
approaches that maximize net benefits
(including potential economic,
environmental, public health and safety,
and other advantages; distributive
impacts; and equity);
(4) To the extent feasible, specify
performance objectives, rather than the
behavior or manner of compliance a
regulated entity must adopt; and
(5) Identify and assess available
alternatives to direct regulation,
including economic incentives—such as
user fees or marketable permits—to
encourage the desired behavior, or
provide information that enables the
public to make choices.
Executive Order 13563 also requires
an agency ‘‘to use the best available
techniques to quantify anticipated
present and future benefits and costs as
accurately as possible.’’ The Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs of
OMB has emphasized that these
techniques may include ‘‘identifying
changing future compliance costs that
might result from technological
innovation or anticipated behavioral
changes.’’
We are issuing these proposed
priorities only upon a reasoned
determination that its benefits would
justify its costs. In choosing among
alternative regulatory approaches, we
selected those approaches that would
maximize net benefits. Based on the
analysis that follows, the Department
believes that this regulatory action is
consistent with the principles in
Executive Order 13563.
We also have determined that this
regulatory action would not unduly
interfere with State, local, and tribal
governments in the exercise of their
governmental functions.
In accordance with both Executive
orders, the Department has assessed the
potential costs and benefits, both
quantitative and qualitative, of this
regulatory action. The potential costs
are those resulting from statutory
requirements and those we have
determined as necessary for
administering the Department’s
programs and activities.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
The proposed priority will require
minor changes to an information
collection already approved by the
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1840–0616. In addition, the Department
has developed new Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
measures for this program, which will
result in significant changes and
increased burden hours for this
collection. As required by the PRA, the
Department is submitting 1840–0616 to
OMB for a revised information
collection clearance concurrently with
the publication of this notice of
proposed priority and definition.
This new information collection for
the CIBE Program will include an
evaluation guide that provides
applicants with more substantive
guidance on how to respond in a more
compelling manner to the Impact and
Evaluation selection criterion. The
guide also will include instructions for
completing the new performance
measure forms (PMFs) that applicants
are required to include in their
submitted proposals. For each project
element that applicants propose to
evaluate during the project period, they
must include a performance measure
form indicating the project-specific
measure for that element.
The IFLE Office developed the PMF
so that applicants can include
measurable outcomes for their CIBE
projects, based on the goals and
objectives they intend to accomplish.
The PMF is designed to help applicants
to develop a more cohesive evaluation
plan focusing the applicant’s attention
on specific benchmarks and indicators
that will better demonstrate their
progress toward achieving their goals
and objectives. The PMF should assist
applicants in proposing high-quality
implementation plans at the outset for
reporting progress and performance
results. Additionally, the information
and data collected via the forms will
enable the Department to provide
Congress and other stakeholders with
more concrete evidence to demonstrate
the impact of CIBE projects. And finally,
the PMF is designed to provide a
universal format that applicants can use
to present the performance information
in their applications. The PMF requests
the following: (a) Project goal statement;
(b) Performance measure; (c) Project
activity; (d) Data/Indices; (e) Frequency
of collection; (f) Data source; and, (g)
Baseline and targets.
In order to mitigate against increasing
respondent burden, applicants will be
required to complete only items (a), (b),
and (c) on the PMF when they submit
their FY14 grant applications. If the
application is recommended for
funding, we will require the submission
of fully-completed forms.
The estimated increase in burden
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to the new information collection is 100
hours for a new total of 500 hours.
If you want to comment on the
proposed information collection
requirements, please send your
comments to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention:
Desk Officer for U.S. Department of
Education. Send these comments by
email to OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov
or by fax to (202) 395–6974. You may
also send a copy of these comments to
the Department contact named in the
ADDRESSES section of this preamble or
submit electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
www.regulations.gov by selecting
Docket ID ED–2014–OPE–0034.
Please be advised that the public
comment period for submitting
comments on the notice of proposed
priorities (NPP) is the same for
submitting comments on the
information collection (IC); therefore,
use the NPP Docket number as the
identifier for both sets of comments.
You may, however, submit the NPP
comments and the IC comments
separately in the regulations.gov site.
We have prepared an ICR for this
collection. In preparing your comments
you may want to review the ICR, which
is available at www.reginfo.gov. Click on
Information Collection Review. This
proposed collection is identified as
proposed collection 1840–0616 ED–
2014–OPE–0034.
We consider your comments on this
proposed collection of information in—
• Deciding whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of our functions, including
whether the information will have
practical use;
• Evaluating the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection, including the validity of our
methodology and assumptions;
• Enhancing the quality, usefulness,
and clarity of the Information we
collect; and
• Minimizing the burden on those
who must respond. This includes
exploring the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques.
OMB is required to make a decision
concerning the collection of information
contained in these proposed regulations
between 30 and 60 days after
publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, to ensure
that OMB gives your comments full
consideration, it is important that OMB
receives your comments by April 17,
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for your comments to us on the
proposed regulations.
Intergovernmental Review: This
program is subject to Executive Order
12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR
part 79. One of the objectives of the
Executive order is to foster an
intergovernmental partnership and a
strengthened federalism. The Executive
order relies on processes developed by
State and local governments for
coordination and review of proposed
Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early
notification of our specific plans and
actions for this program.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the program contact person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Electronic Access to This Document:
The official version of this document is
the document published in the Federal
Register. Free Internet access to the
official edition of the Federal Register
and the Code of Federal Regulations is
available via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you
can view this document, as well as all
other documents of this Department
published in the Federal Register, in
text or Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF). To use PDF you must
have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free at the site.
You may also access documents of the
Department published in the Federal
Register by using the article search
feature at: www.federalregister.gov.
Specifically, through the advanced
search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.

ACTION:

Dated: March 13, 2014.
Lynn B. Mahaffie,
Senior Director, Policy Coordination,
Development, and Accreditation Service,
delegated the authority to perform the
functions and duties of the Assistant
Secretary for Postsecondary Education.

Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is
to make all comments received from
members of the public available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov.
Therefore, commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only information
that they wish to make publicly available.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Chapter VI
[Docket ID ED–2014–OPE–0036; CFDA
Number: 84.016A.]

Proposed Priority—Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign
Language (UISFL) Program
Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education.

AGENCY:

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The Acting Assistant
Secretary for Postsecondary Education
proposes a priority for the UISFL
Program administered by the
International and Foreign Language
Education (IFLE) Office. The Acting
Assistant Secretary may use this priority
for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2014
and later years. We take this action to
focus Federal financial assistance on an
identified national need. We intend the
priority to address a gap in the types of
institutions, faculty and students that
have historically benefited from
international education opportunities.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before April 17, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments submitted by fax or by email
or those submitted after the comment
period. To ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under ‘‘Are you new to the site?’’
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about these proposed
regulations, address them to Patricia
Barrett, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5142,
Potomac Center Plaza (PCP),
Washington, DC 20202–2700.
SUMMARY:

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502–7626 or by email:
Tanyelle.Richardson@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation to Comment: We invite you
to submit comments regarding this
priority. To ensure that your comments
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final priority, we urge you to identify
clearly the specific proposed priority or
definition that each comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in
complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Orders 12866
and 13563 and their overall requirement
of reducing regulatory burden that
might result from this proposed priority.
Please let us know of any further ways
we could reduce potential costs or
increase potential benefits while
preserving the effective and efficient
administration of the program.
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all comments about the
proposed priority in Room 6099, 1990 K
St. NW., Washington, DC between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, Monday through
Friday of each week except Federal
holidays.
Assistance to Individuals with
Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record: On request we will
provide an appropriate accommodation
or auxiliary aid to an individual with a
disability who needs assistance to
review the comments or other
documents in the public rulemaking
record for this notice. If you want to
schedule an appointment for this type of
accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
the Undergraduate International Studies
and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program
is to provide grants for planning,
developing, and carrying out programs
to strengthen and improve
undergraduate instruction in
international studies and foreign
languages.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1124.

Applicable Program Regulations: 34
CFR parts 655 and 658.
Proposed Priority: This notice
contains one proposed priority.
Background:
Through the UISFL Program, the
Department makes awards to
institutions of higher education,
consortia of institutions of higher
education, partnerships between
nonprofit educational organizations and
institutions of higher education, or
public and private nonprofit agencies
and organizations, including
professional and scholarly associations,
to plan, develop, and carry out programs
to strengthen and improve
undergraduate instruction in
international studies and foreign
languages.
The objective of the UISFL Program is
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