UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY

September 13 2019

The Honorable Lamar Alexander

Chairman

Committee on Health, Education, Labor Pensions
United States Senate

Washington, DC. 20515

Dear Chairman Alexander:

In response to your questions surrounding funding for Title Part of the Higher Education
Act, I am submitting the following information and visuals for your contextual information:

While FY 2019 is the ?nal year of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act
(SAFRA) section 371 mandatory funding, this is two-year funding and therefore
available for obligation by the Department in the next succeeding ?scal year (see Section



While we cannot conduct competitions for new awards in FY 2020 using carryover
funding (see Section 371 we do have the ?exibility to carry FY 2019 funding
into FY 2020 for obligations associated with non?competing continuation (N CC) awards
and supplemental awards (provided all funds are obligated by September 30, 2020).

Formula-based grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and
Tribally-Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUS) are on a different award cycle
(with the ?nal year of mandatory funding scheduled for award in FY 2019; before
September 30, 2019) due to the fact that we were able to make initial awards in FY 2010.

HBCUS and TCCUs grantees will receive the last year of their SAFRA funding
before September 30, 2019 for project year October 1, 2019 September 30,
2020.

The competitive Asian American and Native American Paci?c Islander Serving
Institutions (AANAPISI), Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI),
Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian (ANNH),
and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM programs had to wait until FY 2011 to
make initial awards because there wasn?t suf?cient time to complete competitions in FY

2010.
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The Department ofEduca tion ?5 mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness

by fostering educational excellence and ens wing equal access.

There have been multiple competitions for these programs over the past decade, but all currently
funded institutions will receive their ?nal NCCs in FY 2020 (PBIs and HSI STEM grantees will
also receive supplemental awards) with funds carried over from FY 2019 for project year

October 1, 2020 September 30, 2021.

If my of?ce can provide further information, please let me know.

Respectfully,

Robert L. King

Assistant Secretary?
Of?ce of Postsecondary Education
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Title Part Funding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program Appropriations FY 2018 (carry-over) Appropriations FY 2019 (carry-over)
(FY 2019-2020 grantee performance) (FY 2020-2021 grantee performance)

AANAPISI $4,756,188 (14 grants) $4,583,812 (14 grants)

NASNTI $4,161,192 (12 grants) $4,670,000 (12 grants)

ANNH $4,556,868 (12 grants) 08 NCCs $4,967,181 (8 grants}

PBI $13,822,662 (24 grants) $14,070,000 (1 grant/23 supplements)

$90,340,837 (91 grants) $88,357,437 (91 grants)

TCCU $28,140,000 (35 grants) 

HBCU SAFRA $79,730,000 (97 grants) 

 

 

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