Tuesday 13 March 2012

Challenge Grants Program

National Institute for Food and Agriculture Organization, more commonly known as NIFA's United States federal government agency that operates under the Department of Agriculture, which is primarily responsible for consolidating all state-funded agricultural studies.

The establishment of NIFA's mandate under the Food, conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 in an attempt to initiate and facilitate technological innovations that have the potential to improve American agriculture, which would be more productive, ecologically sustainable and economically viable.

In line with this mission, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has recently made up of Higher Education Challenge Grants Program in an effort to encourage and improve the standard of formal, staff at the level of agricultural science education.

Projects will be funded under this program are those that means working to ensure a competent, admissible and diverse system that will be good for food and agricultural science industries.

In this context, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture also wants other projects to achieve the following objectives:

) Significantly increase the amount of students who are ready to continue and complete postsecondary studies of food and agricultural sciences.

b) encourage and inspire studies in areas that will contribute to any of the priority areas of NIFA.

c) Improve the quality of secondary and postsecondary education in an effort to assist in achieving current and future needs of the national food and agricultural sciences office.

In addition, NIFA is required that all projects will be funded under this program should focus on improving standards of education classes at postsecondary education system, which hopefully can lead to hiring more qualified and diverse graduates.

To financially support these projects, NIFA is set up to administer the total amount of funding from $ 4,770,000 to more support for the grant.

Institutions and settings that will be judged eligible to apply under the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program are as follows:

) U.S. public or private nonprofit colleges and universities to give the baccalaureate or first professional degree in any discipline or area of ​​food and agricultural sciences;

b) Land-grant colleges and universities

c) Universities and schools with significant minority enrollments and sufficient capacity to conduct classes on food and agricultural sciences;

d) Any other colleges and universities, which manifest a credible capacity to make the lessons on food and agricultural sciences.

Iola Bonggay editor TopGovernmentGrants.com. She maintains websites provide resources to support small business and home improvement grants.

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