Education
To address the complex challenges of the 21st Century, resources are needed to improve scientific and agricultural literacy; and to recruit and train a skilled workforce to implement the scientific practices and advance technologies needed to remain competitive in the global markets. Therefore, NIFA’s education grant portfolio seeks to accomplish the following three goals: workforce development through grants for scholarships and fellowships; enhancing the research, teaching, and extension capacity at Minority Serving Institutions; and foster learning and engagement in the food and agricultural sciences through programs and opportunities at secondary and postsecondary institutions.
Capacity Building: NIFA broadens representation within the agricultural pipeline through its capacity building programs. These programs facilitate access to higher education and support research, teaching, and extension activities at minority-serving institutions and outside of the Land-Grant University System.
- Hispanic-Serving Institution Education Grants Program (HSI)
- 1890s Capacity Building Grants Programs
- 1994 Education, Extension, and Research
- Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program (ANNH)
- Distance Education Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (DEG)
- Resident Instruction Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (RIIA)
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Education and Workforce Development
- Professional Development Opportunities for Secondary School Teachers (PD-STEP)
- Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture (NLGCA)
- Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA)
- Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS)
- Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Education and Workforce Development
- Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (REEU) Program
- Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP)
- National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Program (NNF)