7 USC 3152 - Grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 23, 2024

§ 3152.

Grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education

(a)

Higher education teaching programs

(b)

Grants

The Secretary may make competitive grants (or grants without regard to any requirement for competition) to land-grant colleges and universities (including the University of the District of Columbia), to colleges and universities having significant minority enrollments and a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences, and to other colleges and universities having a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences, for a period not to exceed 5 years—

(1)

to strengthen institutional capacities, including curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, to respond to identified State, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food and agricultural sciences, or in rural economic, community, and business development;

(2)

to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students in order to educate the students in national need areas of the food and agricultural sciences, or in rural economic, community, and business development;

(3)

to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more eligible institutions, or between eligible institutions and units of State government or organizations in the private sector, to maximize the development and use of resources such as faculty, facilities, and equipment to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs, or teaching programs emphasizing rural economic, community, and business development;

(4)

to design and implement food and agricultural programs, or programs emphasizing rural economic, community, and business development, to build teaching, research, and extension capacity at colleges and universities having significant minority enrollments;

(5)

to conduct undergraduate scholarship programs to meet national and international needs for training food and agricultural scientists and professionals, or professionals in rural economic, community, and business development; and

(6)

to conduct graduate and postdoctoral fellowship programs to attract highly promising individuals to research or teaching careers in the food and agricultural sciences.

(c)

Priorities

In awarding grants under subsection (b), the Secretary shall give priority to—

(1)

applications for teaching enhancement projects that demonstrate enhanced coordination among all types of institutions eligible for funding under this section; and

(2)

applications for teaching enhancement projects that focus on innovative, multidisciplinary education programs, material, and curricula.

(d)

Eligibility for grants

(1)

In general

(2)

Minority groups

(3)

Research foundations

(e)

Food and agricultural education information system

From amounts made available for grants under this section, the Secretary may maintain a national food and agricultural education information system that contains—

(1)

information on enrollment, degrees awarded, faculty, and employment placement in the food and agricultural sciences; and

(2)

such other similar information as the Secretary considers appropriate.

(f)

Evaluation of teaching programs

(g)

Continuing education

(h)

Transfers of funds and functions

(i)

National Food and Agricultural Sciences Teaching, Extension, and Research Awards

(1)

Establishment

(A)

In general

(B)

Minimum requirement

(2)

Funding

(j)

Secondary education, 2-year postsecondary education, and agriculture in the K–12 classroom

(1)

Definitions

In this subsection:

(A)

Institution of higher education

(B)

Secondary school

(2)

Agriscience and agribusiness education

The Secretary shall—

(A)

promote and strengthen secondary education and 2-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness in order to help ensure the existence in the United States of a qualified workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system; and

(B)

promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, 2-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences in order to promote excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agricultural sciences.

(3)

Grants

The Secretary may make competitive or noncompetitive grants, for grant periods not to exceed 5 years, to public secondary schools, institutions of higher education that award an associate’s degree, other institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations, that the Secretary determines have made a commitment to teaching agriscience and agribusiness—

(A)

to enhance curricula in agricultural education;

(B)

to increase faculty teaching competencies;

(C)

to interest young people in pursuing higher education in order to prepare for scientific and professional careers in the food and agricultural sciences;

(D)

to promote the incorporation of agriscience and agribusiness subject matter into other instructional programs, particularly classes in science, business, and consumer education;

(E)

to facilitate joint initiatives by the grant recipient with other secondary schools, institutions of higher education that award an associate’s degree, and institutions of higher education that award a bachelor’s degree to maximize the development and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and equipment, to improve agriscience and agribusiness education;

(F)

to support other initiatives designed to meet local, State, regional, or national needs related to promoting excellence in agriscience and agribusiness education; and

(G)

to support current agriculture in the classroom programs for grades K–12.

(k)

Administration

(l)

Report

(m)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated for carrying out this section—

(1)

$60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1990 through 2013; and

(2)

$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1417, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 996; Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1418, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1305; Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV, § 1412, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1548; Pub. L. 101–624, title XVI, § 1608, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3716; Pub. L. 102–237, title IV, § 402(6), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1863; Pub. L. 104–127, title VIII, § 805, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1160; Pub. L. 105–185, title II, § 223, title III, § 301(a)(1), June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 539, 562; Pub. L. 105–244, title I, § 102(a)(1)(B), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1617; Pub. L. 107–110, title X, § 1076(c), Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 2091; Pub. L. 107–171, title VII, § 7102, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 431; Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, §§ 7106–7109(c), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1217, 1218; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title VII, §§ 7106–7109(c), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1978, 1979; Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7105, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 869; Pub. L. 114–95, title IX, § 9215(ll), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2175; Pub. L. 115–334, title VII, § 7107, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4783; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(35), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4309.)

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