The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the Food and Agricultural Education Information System (FAEIS) program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to maintain a national food and agricultural education information system that contains information on enrollment, degrees awarded, faculty, employment placement, and other similar information in the food and agricultural sciences.
Donor Name: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,100,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Food and Agricultural Education Information System (FAEIS), under assistance listing number 10.200, is a comprehensive database that gathers information, on a voluntary basis, from degree granting institutions of higher education on student enrollment in Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Human Sciences (FANH), degrees awarded, and graduate placement at all degree levels and by gender, race, and other relevant categories. In addition, data is collected on faculty salaries by rank and discipline.
Funding under this authority provides funds to administer the FAEIS database. The applicant will:
- Collect and maintain an accurate, verified and validated set of data, with a focus on FANH sciences from institutions of higher education in the United States. This includes but is not limited to:
- Determining the parameters of data to be collected, taking into account existing data fields, Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes, ability to capture trends over time, and other relevant factors;
- Adapting survey tools to improve ease in data entry and data accuracy;
- Developing survey methodologies and outreach activities that encourage participation from diverse institutions including 1994, 1890, Hispanic-Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities (HSACU), other Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH), and other non-land grant, insular area, and non-land grant certified institutions with FANH science degrees;
- Collaborating with USDA, higher education organizations such as APLU, and their partners to develop means of data collection and to ensure that FAEIS provides relevant information that meets the needs of all end users;
- Implementing quality assurance measures and procedures
- Integrating and/or comparing FAEIS data with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS);
- Implementing a mechanism to capture, report, and analyze data, both qualitative and quantitative, that does not fit into standard survey questions (for example: new majors, termination of a program, transferring from a 2-year to a 4-year program).
- Maintain and enhance an online platform offering user-friendly access to the data for students, institutions, industry, Federal agencies, and the public at large. This includes:
- Assessing existing data and potential for migrating it from the current, to a new host (if a new institution is awarded the grant);
- Designing and/ or providing access to report builders, data visualization tools and other mechanisms for users to interpret the data in a manner that allows members of the public with disabilities to have the same level of access as those without disabilities;
- Maintaining updated and working links to NIFA programs, relevant reports and opportunities.
- Facilitate outreach and dissemination of information on both FAEIS itself and outcomes from FAEIS data to NIFA, contributors of the data, and other users of data. This includes:
- Quarterly newsletters that highlight, based on FAEIS data, issues in the FANH sciences education realm that effect workforce development;
- Summary reports of data collected by year (institution type; college, etc.) in an Excel format similar to those published by IPEDS and SED (Survey of Earned Doctorates);
- Webinars for outreach to institutions on submitting data to FAEIS;
- Webinars for researchers and institutions on how to use the FAEIS website to access data;
- Participation in conferences and other workshops or meetings to promote institutional participation and end-user use of FAEIS; and
- A plan for institutional transfer of database and related materials
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,100,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,100,000
- Award Floor: $1,100,000
Grant Duration
5 years
Eligibility Requirements
Applications may be submitted by:
- U.S. public or private nonprofit colleges and universities offering a baccalaureate or first professional degree in at least one discipline or area of the food and agricultural sciences;
- land-grant colleges and universities;
- colleges and universities having a demonstrable capacity to develop and maintain a comprehensive database for the food and agricultural sciences.
An institution eligible to receive an award under this program includes a research foundation maintained by an eligible college or university. Institutional accreditation must be maintained by an agency or association recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
