---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 2008"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "2008"
heading: "Scholarship conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/2008"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarships"
---

# §2008. Scholarship conditions

- (a) **Satisfactory proficiency and devotion of full time to study or research; unapproved employment—** A student awarded a scholarship under the provisions of this chapter shall continue to receive the payments provided in this chapter only during such periods as the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) finds that he or she is maintaining satisfactory proficiency and devoting full time to study or research designed to prepare him or her for a career in public service and is not otherwise engaging in gainful employment other than employment approved by the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) pursuant to regulation.
- (b) **Reports; certification by official of institution—** The [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) is authorized to require reports containing such information in such form and to be filed at such times as the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) determines to be necessary from any student awarded a scholarship under the provisions of this chapter. Such reports shall be accompanied by a certificate from an appropriate official at the [institution of higher education](/usc/20/2002.md?p=4), approved by the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2), stating that such student is making satisfactory progress in, and is devoting essentially full time to, study or research, except as otherwise provided in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–642, § 9, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2278.)