Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program, Part A

Julius C. Cotton
202.245.6288
Julius.Cotton@ed.gov@ed.gov

The Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program will provide funding for eligible institutions of higher education to improve and expand capacity to serve Alaska Native students.

Program priorities include:

• Meeting student social, emotional, academic, and career development needs with a focus on underserved students
• Increasing postsecondary education access, affordability, completion, and post-enrollment success
• Projects that support activities to strengthen and institutionalize native language preservation and revitalization

Eligible applicants are Alaska native-serving institutions of higher education that have an enrollment of undergraduate students that are at least 20% Alaska Native students.

Additional requirements include:

• Be accredited or preaccredited by a reliable, nationally recognized accrediting agency or association
• Be legally authorized by the state in which it is located to be a junior or community college or to provide an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree
• Has an enrollment of needy students and has low average education and general expenditures per full-time equivalent undergraduate student

Estimated award range: $850,000 - $1,000,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 18
Estimated total program funding: $17,299,105

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.