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 ...

A partnership between the Agriculture Department and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities to help interns land full-time government jobs could provide a recruitment model for ...

The agency published a rule in the federal register that will end the 30-year use of a 'socially disadvantaged' definition ...

University researchers have established a program that aims to decrease obesity-related health threats and improve healthy lifestyle habits in the Hispanic community. Abriendo Caminos: Clearing the ...

Hispanic and black farmers say for years the Agriculture Department failed to investigate their claims of discrimination. But while black farmers successfully sued the department and walked away ...

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 ...

Texas A&M University-Kingsville was recently awarded a $20 million grant for a program to train Hispanic students for careers in agriculture. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

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 ...