§ 3242. — Education grants to Alaska Native serving institutions and Native Hawaiian serving institutions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC3242]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
SUBCHAPTER VII--PROGRAMS FOR HISPANIC, ALASKA NATIVE, AND NATIVE
HAWAIIAN SERVING INSTITUTIONS
Sec. 3242. Education grants to Alaska Native serving
institutions and Native Hawaiian serving institutions
(a) Education grants program for Alaska Native serving institutions
(1) Grant authority
The Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants (or
grants without regard to any requirement for competition) 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 2006.
(b) Education grants program for Native Hawaiian serving institutions
(1) Grant authority
The Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants (or
grants without regard to any requirement for competition) 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;
(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 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
2006.
(Pub. L. 106-78, title VII, Sec. 759, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1172.)
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2000, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension,
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.
