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$800,000 to Support Distance Ed in Agricultural Sciences
USAgNet - 04/27/2017

The USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced $800,000 in available funding to support distance education for students in remote geographic regions. Funding is made through a NIFA program that brings food and agricultural science education to United States insular areas.

"The next great food safety scientist could be a student in Micronesia," said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. "With NIFA investments in distance education, we are ensuring that students in the U.S. education system have access to high quality instruction in the food and agricultural sciences."

This request for applications covers the Distance Education Grants (DEG) for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas. Funded projects will strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions in insular areas to carry out resident instruction, curriculum, and teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences through distance education technology. The eight insular areas specified in this request for applications are: American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Virgin Islands of the United States.

The deadline for applications is June 16. Applications may only be submitted by eligible institutions.


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