§3363 Resident Instruction Grants for Insular Areas

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must award competitive grants to eligible institutions in U.S. insular areas to improve food and agricultural science education. Grants can be used to improve school resources (like libraries, courses, teachers, lab equipment, teaching systems, and student recruiting and retention), to recruit and support undergraduate and graduate students in national-need areas, to fund cooperation between insular schools and state or private partners to share faculty and facilities, and to run undergraduate scholarship programs for training food and agricultural scientists. Before getting funds, each school must show a strong, clear commitment to higher education in the food and agricultural sciences and to the specific subjects the grant will support. The Secretary may require grants to meet needs listed in section 3101. Funding is authorized as needed for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2013 and at $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.