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Highland College Receives More than $2 Million Grant

By Greg Bebermeyer

09/26/2013

(KNZA)--Highland Community College has been awarded a federal Title III grant of about $2.2 million over the next five years.

College officials says the grant will be used to develop and deliver its Precision Agriculture program throughout its service area. In addition, the funds will be used to enhance the college’s ability to provide technical education programming on the western side of their service area.

The College will be partnering with area agriculture businesses throughout it’s nine-county service area of Northeast Kansas to promote and offer the Precision Agriculture program for not only the local area, but for the state of Kansas. The program is designed to educate both current farmers and students about the technical options and applications available to them to enhance crop production and harvest.

The grant proposal was written by a College team led by Dr. Cheryl Rasmussen, Vice President for Student Services at the College.

There were about thirty-five Title III grants funded this year out of around 13-hundred applicants.

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