Sec. 563. Access to Department of Defense installations of institutions of higher education providing certain advising and student support services
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Chapter 101 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2012 the following new section: The Secretary of Defense shall grant access to Department of Defense installations to any institution of higher education that— has entered into a Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for the purpose of providing at the installation concerned timely face-to-face student advising and related support services to members of the armed forces and other persons who are eligible for assistance under Department of Defense educational assistance programs and authorities; and has been approved to provide such advising and support services by the educational service office of the installation concerned.
Access shall be granted under paragraph
(1)in a nondiscriminatory manner to any institution covered by that paragraph regardless of the particular learning modality offered by that institution. The Secretary shall prescribe in regulations the time and place of access required pursuant to subsection (a). The regulations shall provide the following: The opportunity for institutions of higher education to receive regular and recurring access at times and places that ensure maximum opportunity for students to obtain advising and support services described in subsection (a). Access in a degree in proportion to the number of students enrolled by each institution of higher education. In this section: The term Department of Defense educational assistance programs and authorities has the meaning given the term Department of Defense educational assistance programs and authorities covered by this section in section 2006a(c)(1) of this title. The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 2006a(c)(2) of this title. The term Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum of Understanding has the meaning given that term in Department of Defense Instruction 1322.25, entitled Voluntary Education Programs , or any successor Department of Defense Instruction. . The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 101 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2012 the following new item: 2012a. Access to Department of Defense installations: institutions of higher education providing certain advising and student support services. .