Community service

Section 447 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087–57) is amended to read as follows: 447. Additional funds to conduct community service work-study programs Each institution participating under this part may use up to 10 percent of the funds made available under section 489(a) and attributable to the amount of the institution’s expenditures under this part to conduct that institution’s program of community service-learning, including— (1) development of mechanisms to ensure the academic quality of the student experience; (2) ensuring student access to educational resources, expertise, and supervision necessary to achieve community service objectives; (3) ensuring, to the maximum extent practicable, that the community service-learning program will support the educational goals or career goals of students participating in the program; (4) collaboration with public and private nonprofit agencies, and programs assisted under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 in the planning, development, and administration of those programs; and (5) recruiting and compensating students for community service-learning (including compensation for time spent in training and for reasonable travel (not including the purchase or lease of a vehicle) directly related to the community service)..