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Students may be employed by the institution itself; by a Federal, State, or local public agency or private nonprofit organization; or by a private for-profit organization. Institutions may use their allocations to support a variety of Work-Study activities, as described below:

• Community service. An institution must use at least 7 percent of its Federal allocation for payments to students employed in community service activities. Other Work-Study jobs that qualify as community service activities include community-accessible childcare and assistance for disabled students. The HEOA expanded the definition of community service to include emergency preparedness and response. The eligible institution, at its discretion, may count any contribution made by the employer toward the non-Federal share of the student’s compensation.

• Tutoring and literacy activities. An institution must include at least one tutoring or family literacy project as part of its community service activities. Under this requirement, priority is to be given to the employment of Work-Study recipients as reading tutors in schools that are participating in a reading reform project designed to train teachers to teach reading on the basis of scientifically-based research on reading, and which is funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. In 2006-2007, the last year data was collected, over 36,000 Work-Study students were employed as reading tutors.

• Private sector. An institution may use up to 25 percent of its Work-Study allocation to match earnings of students working for private for-profit organizations. Students must, to the maximum extent practicable, be placed in jobs that are academically relevant to their course of study. Work-Study funds may not be used to pay any employee who would otherwise be employed by the private organization.

Section 487(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA) and Section 668.23 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) require all institutions participating in the Federal Student Financial Assistance Programs (SFA) to have an annual financial and compliance audit performed by an independent auditor. Institutions that participate in the SFA programs frequently engage service organizations (servicers) to perform certain functions relating to the administration of the SFA Programs. Section 487(c) of the HEA and 34 CFR 668.23 requires servicers to have an annual compliance audit performed of the servicer’s administration of the SFA Programs.

Each institution must coordinate the Title IV programs with the other Federal and non-Federal SFA programs it administers and must establish controls to preclude awarding assistance in excess of students' financial need. Program and fiscal records must show cost of attendance, student resources, student eligibility and payment, respectively. Institutions must resolve all conflicting information in a student’s files affecting the student’s eligibility for Title IV funds. The institution's administrative capability to manage the Title IV programs is determined, in part, by its management of these functions.

The Department provides performance information, in the form of an Annual Performance Report at the following Web address:
http://thestartingline.ed.gov/analysis/ped/ped/products/annualreport.html
In addition, the Department posts a Federal Campus-Based Programs Annual Data Book at the following Web address:
http://www.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/data/cb-data.html

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