[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3405.4]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3405_HIGHER EDUCATION CHALLENGE GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B_Program Description
 
Sec. 3405.4  Purpose of the program.


    The Department of Agriculture is designated as the lead Federal 
agency for higher education in the food and agricultural sciences. In 
this context, CSREES has specific responsibility to initiate and support 
projects to strengthen college and university teaching programs in the 
food and agricultural sciences. One national initiative for carrying out 
this responsibility is the competitive Higher Education Challenge Grants 
Program. A primary goal of the program is to attract and ensure a 
continual flow of outstanding students into food and agricultural 
sciences higher education programs

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and to provide them with an education of the highest quality available 
anywhere in the world and which reflects the unique needs of the Nation. 
It is designed to stimulate and enable colleges and universities to 
provide the quality of education necessary to produce baccalaureate or 
higher degree level graduates capable of strengthening the Nation's food 
and agricultural scientific and professional work force. It is intended 
that projects supported by the program will:
    (a) Address a State, regional, national, or international 
educational need;
    (b) Involve a creative or nontraditional approach toward addressing 
that need which can serve as a model to others;
    (c) Encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the 
university science and education community, as well as between 
universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and 
supplement available resources; and
    (d) Result in benefits which will likely transcend the project 
duration and USDA support.