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Education Overview
Education programs support all CSREES National Emphasis Areas. These programs promote teaching excellence, enhance academic quality, and develop tomorrow’s scientific and professional workforce. In cooperation with public institutions,private sector partners, and the Land-Grant University System, CSREES provides national leadership to address critical educational issues.
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In Focus
- Interim final rule is published for the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program.
- CSREES directed the multi-agency effort to develop an Avian Influenza Lesson Plan for high school science students.
- The CSREES Multicultural Alliances section manages programs and activities that target historically black land-grant universities, land-grant tribal colleges, and Alaska native-serving, native Hawaiian-serving, and Hispanic-serving institutions.
- Annual, Regional Teaching Improvement Workshops for university food and agricultural sciences faculty are funded in part by CSREES Higher Education Programs.
- The 2006 Academic Summit for Colleges of Agricultural, Life, and Related Sciences worked to redesign approaches to postsecondary education in the agricultural sciences.
- Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) is a national partnership of state-level volunteers, coordinated through CSREES Higher Education Programs, to improve agricultural literacy in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.
- National Awards Program for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences: Guidelines and nomination procedures for this annual awards program recognizing outstanding, baccalaureate-level faculty throughout the country.
- The Food and Agricultural Education Information System gathers and compiles demographic information relative to degree programs.
Funding
Partnerships
Selected Results and Impacts
Resources
Contacts
P.S. Benepal, Director, Multicultural Alliances
Franklin E. Boteler, Acting Deputy Administrator
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