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NIFA Announces $4.3 Million for Higher Education Support
Missouri Ag Connection - 06/28/2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Tuesday announced 20 grants totaling $4.3 million to help higher education institutions teach the next generation of food and agricultural science professionals. The grants are funded through NIFA's Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program.

"NIFA invests in the development of future agricultural professionals," said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. "NIFA helps advance education of our nation's agricultural workforce at our public and private colleges and universities."

The Higher Education Challenge Grants Program supports colleges and universities in their efforts to educate the next generation of the food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce. The program seeks to improve formal, baccalaureate or master's degree level food, agricultural, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH) education and first professional degree-level education in veterinary medicine (DVM). HEC projects may improve the economic health and viability of communities through the development of degree programs that emphasize new and emerging employment opportunities. Projects may also address the national challenge to increase the number and diversity of students entering the FANH sciences.

FY 16 grants being announced includes the University of Missouri, Columbia, which will receive $30,000.

Among the grants, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University project will create a Sustainability Scholars Program to build and increase the institutional capacity for recruiting and retaining underserved populations into food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences programs. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln project will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of a 24-month sustained professional development program for postsecondary FANH sciences faculty.


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