[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3402.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3402_FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES NATIONAL NEEDS GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart A_General Introduction
 
Sec. 3402.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    Citizen or national of the United States means--
    (1) A citizen or native resident of a State; or,
    (2) A person defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(22), who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes 
permanent allegiance to the United States.
    College and university means an educational institution in any State 
which--
    (1) Admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of 
graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the 
recognized equivalent of such a certificate,
    (2) Is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of 
education beyond secondary education,
    (3) Provides an educational program for which a bachelor's degree or 
any other higher degree is awarded,
    (4) Is a public or other nonprofit institution, and

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    (5) Is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or 
association.
    Food and agricultural sciences means basic, applied, and 
developmental research, extension, and teaching activities in the food, 
agricultural, renewable natural resources, forestry, and physical and 
social sciences in the broadest sense of these terms including but not 
limited to research, extension and teaching activities concerned with 
the production, processing, marketing, distribution, conservation, 
consumption, research, and development of food and agriculturally 
related products and services, inclusive of programs in agriculture, 
natural resources, aquaculture, forestry, veterinary medicine, home 
economics, rural development, and closely allied fields.
    Graduate degree means a master's or doctoral degree.
    State means any one of the fifty States, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, 
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall 
Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Virgin Islands of the United States, 
and the District of Columbia.
    Teaching activities means formal classroom instruction, laboratory 
instruction, and practicum experience specific to the food and 
agricultural sciences and matters relating thereto conducted by colleges 
and universities offering baccalaureate or higher degrees.