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About 30 staff from Hispanic-serving U.S. universities met at the U.S. Agriculture Department part of a resurrected program ...
USDA welcomes the 2025 class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows from HSIs and HSSDs for policy insight and research collaboration ...
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday it would no longer consider a farmer's ...
The agency published a rule in the federal register that will end the 30-year use of a 'socially disadvantaged' definition ...
The Agriculture Department will no longer recognize groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and women ...
The 30 EKDLG Fellows came to Washington, D.C., from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) and Hispanic-Serving School Districts ...
Funding for CREA is provided by the USDA Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants (HSI) Program, which was created in 2012 to strengthen innovative educational programming that prepares ...
Amid new whistleblower allegations, the USDA is accused of not ending Biden-era DEI programming that racially discriminates against white farmers.
Black farmers got $2 billion in USDA payments to address discrimination in farm loans. For decades, Black farmers and others have argued that they’ve been left behind by the USDA’s lending ...
(Oct. 18, 2018) -- Promoting and strengthening the ability of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to develop programs that attract, retain and graduate outstanding students capable of enhancing the ...