Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA RIGP 008921
The Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas opportunity is a discretionary grant program run by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (CFDA 10.308). Its overall goal is to build long-term education capacity in the food, agricultural, and natural resource sciences at colleges and universities located in the US Insular Areas. In practice, the program is designed to help these institutions strengthen what they can offer students, improve the quality and reach of instruction, and better connect classroom learning with research and extension activities that matter in tropical and subtropical contexts.
This funding opportunity supports two closely related tracks. The first, Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (RIIA), focuses on strengthening institutional educational capacity. That can include improvements to libraries and learning resources, updating or developing curriculum, faculty development, purchasing scientific instrumentation used for teaching, modernizing instruction delivery systems (including technology that expands access), and activities that improve student recruitment and retention in food and agricultural science programs. The second track, Agriculture and Food Sciences Facilities and Equipment (AGFEI), is aimed more at the physical and equipment needs that make agricultural research possible. AGFEI supports acquiring or renovating facilities and purchasing relevant equipment needed to conduct agricultural research that is especially important for tropical and subtropical regions, including work on pests and diseases.
A major theme across both tracks is expanding the undergraduate experience by deliberately integrating research, education, and extension. The program encourages projects that give undergraduates more hands-on exposure, strengthen applied learning, and create clearer pathways into agricultural careers and advanced study. It also emphasizes collaboration, including partnerships with community colleges and a range of minority-serving and mission-focused institutions such as Hispanic Serving Institutions, Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, 1890 and 1994 land-grant institutions, and both land-grant and non-land-grant colleges of agriculture.
Eligibility depends on which track an applicant is pursuing and where the institution is located. For RIIA, eligible applicants include public or nonprofit, accredited 2-year and 4-year institutions of higher education located in an Insular Area that offer certificate or degree programs in the food and agricultural sciences and can demonstrate capacity to carry out teaching and extension in those fields. For AGFEI, eligibility is narrower: only land-grant colleges and universities (or institutions that have obtained land-grant status through federal legislation) located in an Insular Area may apply as individual applicants. The eight Insular Areas identified in the opportunity are American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Federated States of Micronesia; Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; the Republic of Palau; and the United States Virgin Islands.
The opportunity also clarifies how branch campuses can participate. Branch institutions within a territory university system that are separately accredited as degree-granting institutions may be treated as separate eligible institutions for both RIIA and AGFEI, as long as they meet the program definition of an eligible institution. Independent branch campuses of an institution may also apply and receive awards if they meet the same eligibility definition.
Applicants must certify eligibility at the time of application, and institutions that are not land-grant must provide a letter signed by the Authorized Representative confirming they meet the program requirements. The certification aligns with the Higher Education Act definition of an institution of higher education and includes that the institution admits students with a secondary school credential (or equivalent), is legally authorized in its territory to provide postsecondary education, offers an educational program leading to a bachelors degree or at least a 2-year program acceptable for full credit toward a bachelors degree, and is public or nonprofit and appropriately accredited (or holds recognized pre-accreditation with a reasonable assurance of meeting accreditation standards).
Administrative details in the posting include the funding opportunity number USDA NIFA RIGP 008921, an award ceiling listed at $200,000, an original closing date of 2022-04-11, and the agency listed as USDA NIFA. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is agriculture.Apply for USDA NIFA RIGP 008921
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.308.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-02-08.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-04-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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