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Institutional Collaboration

1890 Land-Grant Universities and the University of Puerto Rico

Since the 1890 Land-Grant Universities (the "historically black land-grant schools") already have undergraduate programs in agriculture and related sciences, efforts to recruit minority graduate students have included articulation and exchange agreements with their students and faculty. The College of ACES undergraduate research program represents collaboration with six of the historically black land-grant universities and the University of Puerto Rico to encourage high achieving juniors, seniors, and masters-level students to consider advanced degrees in the food, agricultural and human sciences.

• Graduate recruitment efforts through undergraduate summer research programs
• Short term exchanges of faculties
• Student visitation programs
• Faculty and staff visitations
• Distance Learning agreement
• Participation in the 1890 SOFSEC

Participating universities include:

• Alabama A & M University, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• Fort Valley State University, College of Agriculture, Home Economics, and Allied Programs
• Southern University and A&M College, College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences
• Tuskegee University, College of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences
• North Carolina A&T State University, School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
• West Virginia State College, Division of Agricultural, Consumer, Environmental and Outreach Programs
• University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, College of Agricultural Science

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