Mississippi Valley State University

Mississippi Valley State University is a historically black college and university (HBCU) located in Itta Bena, Mississippi, that has been registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) since September 2001. The institution serves as a prime recipient of federal grant awards focused on strengthening academic capacity, supporting student success, and advancing research initiatives. As an educational institution and DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise, the university leverages federal funding to enhance its institutional capabilities while expanding educational opportunities for underrepresented and low-income student populations across multiple disciplines.

Mississippi Valley State University has demonstrated substantial engagement across diverse federal grant programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Recent prime grant awards include funding for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program (awarded October 2025 for $744,092 and October 2022), the Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program ($400,000 awarded October 2023 in collaboration with O.U.R. House, Inc. and the Greenwood Police Department), the Upward Bound Program (two awards from June 2022 and September 2022), the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education supporting the Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success ($375,567 awarded October 2021), and research grants including a $220,890 National Science Foundation award investigating weed management through plant-based solutions and a collaborative computing initiative with five partner HBCUs (University of the District of Columbia, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Winston-Salem State University, Norfolk State University, and Hampton University) to develop learning community interventions in computing. Additionally, the university has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to infuse African American literature into its English curriculum and an American Rescue Plan supplemental support grant ($571,441) to address COVID-19 pandemic impacts. The institution has also received numerous sub-awards from the Mississippi Department of Education and Mississippi State University related to child nutrition programs and research initiatives on climate resilience in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta region.