Opportunity ID: 55716
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | ED-GRANTS-070910-001 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program CFDA Number 84.031L |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Education |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 11 |
| Assistance Listings: | 84.031 — Higher Education_Institutional Aid |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 09, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 09, 2010 Applications Available: July 9, 2010. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 9, 2010. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 09, 2010 Applications Available: July 9, 2010. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 9, 2010. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 08, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $3,564,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) Private institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | 1. Eligible Applicants: An IHE is eligible to receive funds if it qualifies as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institution (AANAPISI). Asian American. The term “Asian American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam), as defined in the Office of Management and Budget’s Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity as published on October 30, 1997 (62 FR 58789). The term “American Pacific Islander” means any descendant of the aboriginal people of any island in the Pacific Ocean that is a territory or possession of the United States. Applicants, at the time of submission, will be required to certify their total undergraduate headcount enrollment. Applicants will also be required to certify that 10 percent of the IHE’s enrollment is Asian American or Native American Pacific Islander as defined for the AANAPISI program. An assurance form that is included in the application materials for this competition must be submitted and signed by an official for the applicant. AANAPISI applicants must also meet other requirements to be designated as eligible. To qualify as an eligible institution under the AANAPISI program, an institution must, among other requirements– (1) Be accredited or pre-accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association that the Secretary has determined to be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training offered; (2) Be legally authorized by the State in which it is located to be a junior college or to provide an educational program for which it awards a bachelor’s degree; (3) Be designated as an “eligible institution” by demonstrating that it: (A) Has an enrollment of needy students as described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (B) has low average educational and general expenditures per full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student as described in 34 CFR 607.4. Note: The notice for applying for designation as an eligible institution was published on December 7, 2009, 74 FR 64059, and applications were due on January 6, 2010. Only institutions that submitted applications by the deadline date of January 6, 2010 and that the Department determined are eligible may apply for a grant. Relationship between the Title III, Part A programs, and the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program. Note 1: A grantee under the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which is authorized by Title V of the HEA, may not receive a grant under any HEA, Title III, Part A programs, including the AANAPISI program. Further, a current HSI program grantee may not give up its HSI grant in order to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A program. Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall within the limitation described in Note 1 (i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI program) may apply for a FY 2010 grant under all Title III, Part A programs for which it is eligible, as well as receive consideration for a grant under the HSI program. However, a successful applicant may receive only one grant. Note 3: The Department will make five-year awards for individual development grants and five-year awards for cooperative arrangement grants in rank order from the funding slates according to the average score received from a panel of three readers. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Department of Education |
| Description: | Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.
Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. Purpose of Program: The AANAPISI program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to enable them to improve their academic quality, increase their self sufficiency, and strengthen their capacity to make a substantial contribution to the higher education resources of the Nation. At the time of application, IHEs applying for funds under the AANAPISI program must have an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10 percent Asian American or Native American Pacific Islander. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.031L. Applications for grants under the AANAPISI program CFDA Number 84.031L–must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department’s e-Grants Web site at: http://e-grants.ed.gov. While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database. You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program CFDA Number 84.031L; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Julius Cotton
ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. Phone 202-245-6140 julius.cotton@ed.gov Program Managers: Pearson Owens or Darlene Collins U.S. Department of Education 1990 K Street, NW., 6th floor, Washington, DC 20006-8513 You may contact these individuals at the following e-mail addresses or telephone numbers: Pearson.Owens@ed.gov; (202) 502-7804. Darlene.Collins@ed.gov; (202) 502-7576. Email:Pearson.Owens@ed.gov |
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