Description
The Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program aims to promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs that attract, retain, and graduate outstanding students capable of enhancing the nation’s food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences professional and scientific workforce. The program supports projects that develop human capital relevant to the HSI goals, including curricula design, faculty preparation, instruction delivery systems, scientific instrumentation, student experiential learning, and student recruitment and retention. Key features of the program include:
* Eligible institutions may propose projects in any discipline(s) or subject matter area(s) of the FANH sciences.
* Applications may propose, as part of a formal education and teaching program, that students gain experience with applied research and extension outreach activity.
* The program encourages projects that develop content suitable for delivery through eXtension and incorporate leadership development components.
* The program supports three grant types: Regular, Collaboration, and Conference grants.
* Award amounts range from $50,000 to $1,000,000, with project periods of up to 48 months.