Terri Hudkins
Headquarters, Washington, DC                 May 16, 1995
(Phone:  202/358-1977)

RELEASE:  95-70

NASA AWARDS EDUCATION GRANTS TO MINORITY UNIVERSITIES

     NASA today awarded eight minority universities three-
year grants to develop teacher preparation and educational 
curriculum enhancement projects.  Each university will 
receive up to $600,000 over the three years.

     The Mathematics, Science and Technology Awards for 
Teacher and Curriculum Enhancement Program (MASTAP) grants 
are intended to help prepare underrepresented mathematics, 
science and technology pre-service teachers to become state 
certified and to teach in middle and high schools that have 
substantial enrollments of underrepresented minority 
students.

     The grant program targets institutions of higher 
education, especially Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions that meet 
the eligibility criteria outlined in Public Law 102-325 in 
the higher education amendments of 1992, as well as Tribal 
Colleges and other minority universities whose student 
enrollment of underrepresented minorities exceeds 50 
percent.

The universities selected to receive grants are: 

o       Xavier University, New Orleans, LA
o       Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
o       Shaw University, Raleigh, NC
o       South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
o       Medgar Evers College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY
o       Humacao University College, Humacao, PR
o       University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR
o       Florida International University, Miami, FL

     The MASTAP grant program is sponsored by NASA's Office 
of Equal Opportunity Programs, Washington, DC.

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