Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), Assistance Listing Number 84.200A
Agency: Department of Education
Posted: 2024-04-24 | Closing date: 2024-06-24
Applications Available:  April 24, 2024].     Deadline for Transmittal of Applications:  June 24, 2024.       Deadline for Intergovernmental Review:  August 22, 2024]     FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Rebecca Ell, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, 5th floor, Washington, DC 20202-4260.  Telephone:  (202) 453-6348.  Email:  OPE_GAANN_Program@ed.gov; or ReShone Moore, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, 5th floor, Washington, DC 20202-4260.  Telephone (202) 453-7624.  Email:  reshone.moore@ed.gov..
Estimated total program funding: 20479535
Award ceiling: 750000
Award floor: 100000
Expected number of awards: 60
Cost sharing or matching requirement: Yes

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. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. 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 Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022. Purpose of Program: The GAANN Program provides grants to academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support graduate fellowships for students with excellent academic records in their previous programs of study who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course of study at the institution. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.200A.

Eligibility: 1.   Eligible Applicants:   (a)  Any academic department of an IHE that provides a course of study that--(i) Leads to a graduate degree in an area of national need; and (ii) Has been in existence for at least four years at the time of an application for a grant under this competition. (b)  Eligible applicants may apply alone or in partnership with one or more eligible nondegree granting institutions that have formal arrangements for the support of doctoral dissertation research.Note: A formal arrangement under paragraph (b) is a written agreement between a degree-granting institution and an eligible nondegree granting institution whereby the degree-granting institution accepts students from the eligible nondegree granting institution as doctoral degree candidates with the intention of awarding these students doctorates in an area of national need. Note:  A school or department of divinity is not eligible for a grant. Note:  Students are not eligible to apply for grants under this program.