USDA Higher Education Challenge Grants

Projects supported by the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program will:

(1) address a State, regional, national, or international educational need;
(2) involve a creative or non-traditional approach toward addressing that need that can serve as a model to others;
(3) encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the university science and education community, as well as between universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and supplement available resources; and
(4) result in benefits that will likely transcend the project duration and USDA support.

Eligibility:

a) U.S. public or private, nonprofit colleges/universities offering baccalaureate or 1st professional degree in at least one discipline/area of food & agricultural sciences;
b) land-grant colleges/universities (including those in Insular Areas);
c) colleges/universities having significant minority enrollments & demonstrable capacity to teach food & agricultural sciences; &
d) colleges/universities having demonstrable capacity to teach food & agricultural sciences.

URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/educationchallengehigheredhep.cfm

Note: 1 for 1 matching required.