§3363 Resident instruction grants for insular areas

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must give competitive grants to eligible institutions to improve food and agricultural science teaching and training. Grants can help build school capacity (like libraries, curriculum, faculty, equipment, delivery systems, and student recruiting and retention), recruit and support undergraduate and graduate students in important national areas, encourage cooperation between insular institutions and state or private partners to share faculty and facilities, and run undergraduate scholarship programs to train food and agricultural scientists. Before getting money, each eligible institution must show a strong, clear commitment to higher education in the food and agricultural sciences and to the specific subject areas funded. The Secretary can require grants to target the needs listed in section 3101. Funding is allowed at whatever level is needed for each fiscal year 2002 through 2013, and $2,000,000 for each fiscal year 2014 through 2023.