93.415: ARRA - Centers of Excellence

93.415

Inactive

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [HHS]

Aug. 11, 2014

Aug. 22, 2013

As funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Centers of Excellence program assists eligible schools in supporting programs of excellence in health professions education for underrepresented minority(URM) individuals. The COE program is a catalyst for institutionalizing a commitment to URM students/faculty and to serve as a national resource and educational center for diversity and minority health issue. Additionally, the COE program will help to strengthen the national capacity to produce a culturally competent healthcare workforce whose diversity is representative of the United States Population.

B - Project Grants

Eligible applicants include designated Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and health professions schools that are accredited schools of allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, graduate programs in behavioral or mental health, or other public and nonprofit health or educational entities that meet the required conditions regarding underrepresented minorities as described in Section 736(c) of the Public Service Act: Eligible applicants must also have: (1) a significant number of underrepresented minority individuals enrolled in the schools; (2) been effective in assisting underrepresented minority students of the schools to complete the program of education and receive the degree involved; (3) been effective in recruiting underrepresented minority individuals to enroll in and graduate from the school, including providing scholarships and other financial assistance to such individuals and encouraging under-represented minority students from all levels of the educational pipeline to pursue health professions careers; and (4) made significant recruitment efforts to increase the number of under-represented minority individuals serving in faculty or administrative positions at the school.

Designated HBCUs and eligible health professions schools must recruit and train a significant number of under-represented minority students in medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; faculty recruitment, training and retention; and faculty and student research activities.

93.157 - Centers of Excellence