Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program CFDA Number 84.031L | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 070910 001

• The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program CFDA Number 84.031L" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.031 Higher EducationInstitutional Aid.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 9, 2010 and posted on Jul 9, 2010.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 9, 2010 Applications Available July 9, 2010. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications August 9, 2010.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $3,564,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 11 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• 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 Budgets 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 IHEs 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 bachelors 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.

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