July 20, 2022
HEERF Funding Breakdown
Last week, we shared that the Department of Education awarded the final round of American Rescue Plan Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grants which total $198 million.
The Office of Postsecondary Education has released the full list of awarded institutions and the funding breakdown by state.
Postsecondary Student Success Grant Coalition Letter
Yesterday, ACCT joined a coalition of higher education organizations to express our support for appropriating $200 million for Postsecondary Student Success Grants in Fiscal Year 2023.
Read the full coalition letter here.
FNS SNAP E&T National Partnership Grants
The Department of Agriculture recently issued a notice inviting applications for the FNS SNAP E&T National Partnership Grant.
FNS intends to make available in fiscal year (FY) 2022 approximately $3 million to non-profit organizations with large networks of community colleges or consortia of community colleges with experience providing workforce development services to low-income and low-skilled individuals, including SNAP participants. Grant funds will be used to support new organizational capacity to provide network or consortia members training and other technical assistance so that network or consortia members may become third-party SNAP E&T providers.
For more information on required, competitive, and invitation priorities for the proposals and on how to apply, please visit here. The deadline to apply is September 3, 2022.
Final Reminder: Open Textbooks Deadline
The Open Textbooks Pilot program supports projects at eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) that create new open textbooks and expand the use of open textbooks and course materials in courses that are part of a degree-granting program, particularly those with high enrollments.
The deadline to apply is July 25, 2022. The pre-application slide deck can be found here. For more information on required, competitive, and invitation priorities for the proposals and on how to apply, please visit here.
Dates & Deadline Reminders:
- July 25 - deadline to apply for the Open Textbooks Pilot program
- August 15 - deadline to apply for the Modeling and Simulation Program Grant
- September 3 - deadline to apply for the SNAP E&T National Partnership Grants
- October 25 - deadline to apply for third round of funding for SCCTG
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