The Agriculture Department announced $35 million in grants to the historically black 1890 land grant colleges and universities. The 76 grants will support research, teaching and Extension activities at the schools as well as improvements in equipment and facilities.
The 2014 farm bill included Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio, as a land grant university so there are 19 schools on the list of historically black land grant universities.
USDA’s 1890 National Scholars Program, which offers a full ride – tuition, room and board – to students of agriculture, food, natural resource sciences or other related disciplines at historically black colleges and universities. Deadline is March 14 for the 2014/15 academic year.