PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To support the activities of a consortia of Hispanic serving institutions to enhance educational equity for underrepresented students; 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 agricultural sciences; to attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented 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 to facilitate cooperative initiatives between 2 or more Hispanic serving institutions, or between Hispanic 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.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Higher Education - General;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Other public institution/organization;
- Minority group;
- Graduate Student;
- Spanish Origin;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Other public institution/organization;
- Minority Group;