Title III, Part F, Section 371 of the Higher Education Act, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1067q (b) (2) (B))
This discretionary grant program is designed to increase the number of Hispanic and low-income students that acquire a degree in a STEM area. The program also supports the articulation to facilitate the transfer of students from 2yr to 4yr degree STEM programs. Additionally, given the number of allowable activities, grantees can use these funds to improve labs and equipment, as well as faculty development, and STEM course improvements.
84.031C
Discretionary
Applications are now closed
Other (i.e. one-time funding): The current cohort of grantees will receive non-competing continuations based on progress made to fund approved application activities.
Not Applicable
Total Amount:$94,300,000 funds from 2022 are available for use in FY2023
Amount Available Towards Broadband (if specified): Not Specified
Other (i.e. if match is beneficial to an application but not required): This program does not require cost sharing or matching unless the grantee uses a portion of its grant for establishing or improving an endowment fund. If a grantee uses a portion of its grant for endowment fund purposes, it must match or exceed those grant funds with non-Federal funds (section 503(c)(2) of the HEA; 20 U.S.C. 1101b(c)(2)).
Funds are to support various allowable activities, depending on the activities funds can be leveraged with other funding. For example, the funds may contribute toward existing infrastructure improvements.
Not Applicable
Institutions must be designated eligible for the Title III, Part F (HSI STEM and Articulation) program, and each must be defined as an HSI.
To qualify for HSI grants, IHEs must have 25% Hispanic Undergraduate Full Time Enrollment and show financial need in two ways: enrolling a high percentage of low-income students, and spending less per student than their peer institutions, on average
Hispanic Serving Institutions; Hispanic and other low-income students
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Dr. Stacey Slijepcevic
E-mail: Stacey.Slijepcevic@ed.gov
Telephone: (202) 453-6150
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This is one of a number of Department programs that provides funds that may be used to support broadband access. The allowability of costs is always situation and program specific. For that reason, if you decide to use funds under one of these programs for costs related to broadband access, you must be sure that the use of the funds is, under the specific circumstances of the expenditure and the program authority selected, reasonable and necessary for the purposes of that program, and does not violate other program requirements, such as supplement not supplant, if it applies to program. We also note that, while funds under one of these programs can be used on broadband access, the program’s purpose is not primarily focused on that issue.
April 2023