NASULGC's Farm Bill Provisions

449. Resident
Instruction and Distant Education

Summary

Adds higher education in the “rural social sciences”
to the areas to be promoted under the program.

Legislative
Language

SEC. 449. RESIDENT INSTRUCTION AND DISTANT EDUCATION.

Section 7501(a) of the Farm
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 3361 note) is
amended—

(1) by striking “and
agricultural sciences” and inserting “, agricultural, and rural
social sciences”; and

(2) by inserting “rural
social sciences,” after “economics,”.