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NEXTGEN Program Overview Webinar, September 7th, 2022

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Hosted by USDA-NIFA

Learn about program goals, eligibility, other requirements, and resources available for USDA’s From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals Program (NEXTGEN).

The goal of the NEXTGEN program is to enable institutions eligible under Section 1006 of the American Rescue Plan, as amended by Section. 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act (Pub.L 117-169) to engage, recruit, retain, train, and support students in order to help build and sustain the next generation of the food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences workforce including the future USDA and federal government workforce.

For more information about this program, please see the From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NEXTGEN) Funding Opportunity 

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Program Contacts

  • Carlos Ortiz, National Program Leader
  • Ahlishia Shipley, National Program Leader
  • Erin Riley, National Program Leader
  • Irma Lawrence, National Program Leader
  • Manoharan Mathusamy, National Program Leader

If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact David Wagner, Program Specialist, at david.wagner2@usda.gov no later than September 5th, 2022. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to limited English proficient individuals upon request.

 

EVENT DETAILS
START DATE
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 3:00pm EDT
END DATE
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 4:30pm EDT
EVENT TYPE
Webinar
September 1, 2022/by Aaron Weibe
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Your success is our success. This website and related materials and support have been developed by the Extension Foundation for the benefit of all eligible institutions in their development, preparation, and application of their proposal for “From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals Program (NEXTGEN)” USDA-NIFA-ARPAED-009362 funding opportunity.

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