Budget and Proposals Handout
• Through the Spencer Foundation, who focuses on educational grants and research
• Project will last three years, starting 9/1/2010 and ending 8/31/2013
• The project is aimed at helping educate minority and underrepresented students about the importance of agriculture and a college degree
• It could significantly increase the quality of food and agricultural literacy within inner city schools and produce society-ready graduates through experiential education settings, and increase enrollments of non-traditional and underrepresented students into agricultural related careers.
• It is important to include not only students and teachers, but administrators, counselors and parents.
• Minorities are severely underrepresented in top agriculture careers and college undergraduate agriculture degrees. This grant hopes to increase awareness and representation of these groups based on state levels
• Undergraduate students and university professors will take part in this. These are the perfect people to take part in this study as this is part of their career goals.
• The grant hopes to educate high school students so that they may in turn educate their peers about the benefits available to them through a degree in agriculture science.
• Future recommendations for this study would be to include other universities.
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