7 U.S.C. § 3156: Education grants to Alaska…

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can give competitive grants to Alaska Native serving institutions to help them run education, applied research, and community development programs. The money can pay for work by groups of schools to make education fairer for underrepresented students; improve things like libraries, curricula, teachers, lab equipment, teaching systems, and student recruitment and retention so the schools can meet food and agriculture science needs; attract and support underrepresented students starting with high school mentoring (including by village elders) and providing financial help up to a doctoral degree; and fund partnerships among Alaska Native schools or with state agencies or private businesses to share faculty, facilities, and equipment. The Secretary can also give similar competitive grants to Native Hawaiian serving institutions. Native Hawaiian consortia may name a fiscal agent to handle and divide grant money among members. The law authorizes $10,000,000 in fiscal years 2001 through 2023 for the Alaska Native grants and $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2023 for the Native Hawaiian grants.

Title 7, §3156

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(a)Education grants program for Alaska Native serving institutions

(1)Grant authority

The Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants to Alaska Native serving institutions for the purpose of promoting and strengthening the ability of Alaska Native serving institutions to carry out education, applied research, and related community development programs.

(2)Use of grant funds

Grants made under this section shall be used—

(A)to support the activities of consortia of Alaska Native serving institutions to enhance educational equity for under represented students;

(B)to strengthen institutional educational capacities, including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified State, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food and agriculture sciences;

(C)to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from under represented groups in order to prepare them for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of the United States, beginning with the mentoring of students at the high school level including by village elders and continuing with the provision of financial support for students through their attainment of a doctoral degree; and

(D)to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more Alaska Native serving institutions, or between Alaska Native serving institutions and units of State government or the private sector, to maximize the development and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs.

(3)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection $10,000,000 in fiscal years 2001 through 2023.

(b)Education grants program for Native Hawaiian serving institutions

(1)Grant authority

The Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants to Native Hawaiian serving institutions for the purpose of promoting and strengthening the ability of Native Hawaiian serving institutions to carry out education, applied research, and related community development programs.

(2)Use of grant funds

Grants made under this section shall be used—

(A)to support the activities of consortia of Native Hawaiian serving institutions to enhance educational equity for under represented students, including permitting consortia to designate fiscal agents for the members of the consortia and to allocate among the members funds made available under this section;

(C)to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from under represented groups in order to prepare them for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of the United States, beginning with the mentoring of students at the high school level and continuing with the provision of financial support for students through their attainment of a doctoral degree; and

(D)to facilitate cooperative initiatives between two or more Native Hawaiian serving institutions, or between Native Hawaiian serving institutions and units of State government or the private sector, to maximize the development and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs.

(3)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2023.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 both renumbered this section as section 1419B of Pub. L. 95–113 and made identical

Amendments

to this section. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. Section was formerly classified to section 3242 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 115–334, § 7109(1), substituted “2023” for “2018”. Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 115–334, § 7109(2), substituted “2023” for “2018”. 2014—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 7107(1)(A), struck out “(or grants without regard to any requirement for competition)” after “competitive grants”. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 113–79, § 7107(1)(B), substituted “2018” for “2012”. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 7107(2)(A), struck out “(or grants without regard to any requirement for competition)” after “competitive grants”. Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 113–79, § 7107(2)(B), substituted “2018” for “2012”. 2008—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7112(1)(A), substituted “2012” for “2006”. Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7112(1)(B)(i), inserted “, including permitting consortia to designate fiscal agents for the members of the consortia and to allocate among the members funds made available under this section” before semicolon at end. Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7112(1)(B)(ii), substituted “2012” for “2006”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

§3156 Education Grants to Alaska Native Serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions

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