OpportunityTitle: Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Applications may only be submitted by Tribal Colleges or Universities designated as 1994s under the Equity Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301, as amended). Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the time of application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration. The eligible 1994s are listed below:  (1) Aaniiih Nakoda College.  (2) Bay Mills Community College.  (3) Blackfeet Community College.  (4) Cankdeska Cikana Community College.  (5) Chief Dull Knife College.  (6) College of Menominee Nation.  (7) College of the Muscogee Nation.  (8) Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.  (9) Dine College.  10) Haskell Indian Nations University.  11) Fort Peck Community College.  (12) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.  (13) Ilisagvik College.  (14) Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.  (15) Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College.  (16) Little Big Horn College.  (17) Leech Lake Tribal College.  (18) Navajo Technical University.  19) Little Priest Tribal College.  (20) Northwest Indian College.  (21) Nebraska Indian Community College.  (22) Oglala Lakota College.  (23) Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College.  (24) Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College.  (25) Red Lake Nation College.  (26) Sinte Gleska University.  (27) Salish Kootenai College.  (28) Sitting Bull College.  (29) Sisseton Wahpeton College.  (30) Stone Child College.  (31) Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute.  (32) Turtle Mountain Community College.  (33) Tohono O&apos;odham Community College.  (34) White Earth Tribal and Community College.  (35) United Tribes Technical College.
Description: This program was designed to assist 1994 Land-Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) in building institutional research capacity through applied projects that address student educational needs and meet community, reservation or regional challenges. Awards are to be made on the basis of a competitive review process. Collaboration with 1862 or 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a Non-Land-Grant College of Agriculture (NLGCA), or at least one forestry school funded under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program is a requirement. Eligible institutions may propose projects in any discipline of the food, agricultural or natural resource sciences.
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