Higher Education Challenge Grants Program

HEC is a competitive grant to institutions of higher education* to enhance the quality of instruction for baccalaureate degrees, master’s degrees, and first professional degrees in veterinary sciences in order to help meet current and future workforce needs in the food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences, and to increase the number and diversity of students who will pursue and complete a postsecondary degree in the FANH sciences.

Administering Agency:

USDA

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Key Details:

Funding Overview:

HEC is a competitive grant to institutions of higher education* to enhance the quality of instruction for baccalaureate degrees, master’s degrees, and first professional degrees in veterinary sciences in order to help meet current and future workforce needs in the food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences, and to increase the number and diversity of students who will pursue and complete a postsecondary degree in the FANH sciences.

Common Uses:

Curriculum development, connection of students to participatory learning experiences, faculty development, and work to encourage people to reenter institutions of higher education, including after periods of involvement with the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

Issue Area(s): Criminal Justice, Other

Eligibility: State

Key Usage Options: Staff Training, Workforce Development

Funding Amount/Range: $30,000 - $750,000

Allocation Frequency: Annual

Funding/Expending Period: Varies

Funding Type: Competitive Grant

How to Obtain: Application Process

Match Requirement: No

Notes:

*1862 Land-Grant Institutions, 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, 1994 Land-Grant Institutions, for-profit organizations other than small businesses, Hispanic-serving institutions, other or state controlled institutions of higher education (per the U.S. Department of Agriculture)