Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service - Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program (Part A), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031N
Note:
Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice.
For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice.
The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register.
Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information.For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024 (89 FR 104528) and available at www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/23/2024-30488/common-instructions-for-applicants-to-department-of-education-discretionary-grant-programs.Purpose of Program:
The ANNH Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students.
Institutions may use these grants to plan, develop, or implement activities that strengthen the institution.Assistance Listing Numbers:
8 4. 031N (Alaska Native)
Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice.
For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice.
The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register.
Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information.For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024 (89 FR 104528) and available at www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/23/2024-30488/common-instructions-for-applicants-to-department-of-education-discretionary-grant-programs.Purpose of Program:
The ANNH Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students.
Institutions may use these grants to plan, develop, or implement activities that strengthen the institution.Assistance Listing Numbers:
8 4. 031N (Alaska Native)
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Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service - Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program (Part A), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031N Department of Education FY25 NIA
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible Applicants: This program is authorized by title III, part A, of the HEA.
To qualify as an eligible institution under any title III, part A program, an institution must-- (i) Be accredited or preaccredited 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; (ii) 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; (iii) Demonstrate that it (1) has an enrollment of needy students as described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (2) has low average education and general expenditures per full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student as described in 34 CFR 607.4.
To qualify as an eligible institution under the ANNH Program at the time of submission of their applications, an institution also must— Certify that an Alaska Native-serving institution has an enrollment of undergraduate students that are at least 20 percent Alaska Native students or that a Native Hawaiian-serving institution has an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10 percent Native Hawaiian students.
An assurance form, which is included in the application materials for this competition, must be signed by an official for the applicant and submitted with this application.
Note: The notice announcing the FY 2025 process for designation of eligible institutions and inviting applications for waiver of eligibility requirements was published in the Federal Register on March 6, 2025 (90 FR 11408).
Only institutions that the Department determines as eligible, or which are granted a waiver under the process described in the notice, may apply for a grant in this program.
An eligible IHE may only submit one Individual Development Grant application.
However, an eligible IHE may submit one application for an Individual Development Grant and a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant.
Both may be awarded in the same fiscal year.
A grantee with an Individual Development Grant or a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant may be a partner in one or more Cooperative Arrangement Development Grants.
The lead institution in a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant must be an eligible institution.
Partners are not required to be eligible institutions.
Current program grantees who have an Individual Development Grant under ANNH, Part A may not apply for another Individual Development Grant in this competition unless their grant ends on September 30, 2025.
b.
Relationship between the Title III, Part A Programs and the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program: A grantee under the HSI Program, which is authorized under title V of the HEA, may not receive a grant under any HEA, title III, part A program.
20 U.S.C.
1101d.
The title III, part A programs are the Strengthening Institutions Program, the ANNH program, the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Program, the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program, the Predominantly Black Institutions Program, and the Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions Program.
Furthermore, a current title III, Part A or title V program grantee may not give up its grant to receive a grant under ANNH, as described in 34 CFR 607.2(g)(1).
An eligible HSI that is not a current grantee under the above-cited programs may apply for a FY 2025 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, as described in 34 CFR 607.2(g)(1).
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-14/pdf/2025-13153.pdf
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
Program Manager
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2025-07-14
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2025-09-12
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