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href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/digital-learning-infrastructure/digital-learning-infrastructure-and-it-modernization-pilot"><strong>Digital Learning Infrastructure and IT Modernization Pilot Program</strong></a> is a grant program designed to support IT modernization at HBCUs and MSIs, including technical assistance and partnerships with HBCUs and MSI to improve their digital learning infrastructure.</p><p><strong>First in the World</strong>: provides grants to spur the development of innovations that improve educational outcomes, makes college more affordable for students and families, and develops an evidence base of effective practices. <strong>(No longer funded)</strong></p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/msp/modeling-and-simulation-program"><strong>Modeling and Simulation</strong></a> as authorized under section 891 of the HEA. 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These technologies have numerous applications for Federal and State governments and their partners in the defense, education, and workforce training sectors, allowing them to generate data to help make decisions or predictions about their systems.</p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/special-population-grants/students-with-disabilities/ncitspsd/national-center-for-information-and-technical-support-for-postsecondary-students-with-disabilities"><strong>National Center for Information and Technical Support for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities</strong></a></p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/otp/open-textbooks-pilot-program"><strong>Open Textbooks Pilot:</strong></a> supports projects at institutions of higher education that create new open textbooks or expand their use of open textbooks while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes.</p><p><strong>Pilot Program for Cybersecurity Education Technological Upgrades for Community Colleges:</strong> supports technology upgrades for community colleges for the purpose of supporting cybersecurity programs. <strong>(No longer funded)</strong></p><p><a href="/about/offices/list/ope/earmarks.html"><strong>Postsecondary Earmarks</strong></a></p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/pssp/postsecondary-student-success-program"><strong>Postsecondary Student Success Program</strong></a> is a grant program designed to support individuals who have started but not completed postsecondary education with the opportunity that will lead to degrees, certification, and credentialing that will increase student outcomes, while simultaneously reengaging individuals with higher education and providing essential wrap-around services.</p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/rdi/research-and-development-infrastructure-grant-program"><strong>Research and Development Infrastructure (RDI) Program</strong></a> provides four-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) including Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNH), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and/or Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), or consortia led by an eligible institution, with funds to implement transformational investments in research infrastructure, including research productivity, faculty expertise, graduate programs, physical infrastructure, human capital development, and partnerships leading to increases in external funding.</p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/rped/rural-postsecondary-economic-development-rped-program"><strong>Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development (RPED) Program</strong></a></p><p><strong>Training for Realtime Writers</strong>: provides grants for the recruitment, training and assistance, and job placement of individuals who have completed a court reporting training program as real-time writers. <strong>(No longer funded)</strong></p><p><a href="/grants-and-programs/grants-for-higher-education/fipse/giyp/transitioning-gang-involved-youth-to-higher-education-program"><strong>Transitioning Gang-Involved Youth into Higher Education:</strong></a> provides gang-involved youth with postsecondary education opportunities that will lead to certification or credentials.</p><p><a href="#top"><img src="/sites/ed/files/images/ed_gl_up_arrow.gif" alt="Top"></a></p><p><a class="ck-anchor" id="news"></a></p><h2>News</h2><ul><li><strong>Instructions to register as a Reviewer:</strong> <a href="/sites/ed/files/programs/fitw/fitw-reviewerregistration.doc">MS Word</a> (39K)</li><li>Take a look at the <a href="/college-completion/promising-strategies"><strong>Promising and Practical Strategies to Increase Postsecondary Success</strong></a></li></ul><p><a class="ck-anchor" id="db"></a></p><h2>The FIPSE Database</h2><p>The FIPSE database is a publicly searchable database with information about current and past FIPSE competitive grant projects and non-competitive Congressionally-directed grants (earmarks) that FIPSE manages. 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