---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2400.30"
title: "45"
number: "2400.30"
heading: "Selection criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2400.30"
---

# §2400.30. Selection criteria.


Applicants will be evaluated, on the basis of materials in their applications, as follows:

- (a) Demonstrated commitment to teaching American history, American government, social studies, or political science at the secondary school level;
- (b) Demonstrated intention to pursue a program of graduate study that emphasizes the Constitution and to offer classroom instruction in that subject;
- (c) Demonstrated record of willingness to devote themselves to civic responsibility;
- (d) Outstanding performance or potential of performance as classroom teachers;
- (e) Academic achievements and demonstrated capacity for graduate study; and
- (f) Proposed courses of graduate study, especially the nature and extent of their subject matter components, and their relationship to the enhancement of applicants' teaching and professional activities.
- (g) **Content of the 600-word essay.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 46734, Sept. 5, 1996, as amended at 69 FR 11814, Mar. 12, 2004]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 4501 et seq., unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 46734, Sept. 5, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 46734, Sept. 5, 1996, as amended at 69 FR 11814, Mar. 12, 2004]