Head Start Higher Education Partnership grants are designed to improve the quality and long-term effectiveness of Head Start and Early Head Start grantees by developing academic and other training models to increase the number of Head Start teachers with degrees in early childhood education.

Launched in 1997, the program initially provided grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Over the years, the program has expanded to include Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and Hispanic Latino Service Institutions (HSIs). Further information may be found in the Higher Education Grantees Directory on the ECLKC.

List of grantees updated May, 2009:

Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Alabama State University
Alcom State University
Central State University
Florida A&M University
Howard University
Jackson State University
Kentucky State University
Langston University
Norfolk State University 
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Shaw University
Southern University and A&M College
Spelman College
St. Philip's College
Tennessee State University
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
University of the Virgin Islands

Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Aims Community College
Arizona State University
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, Northridge
Colorado State University
Community College of Denver
El Camino College
Florida International University
Fresno City College
Holyoke Community College
Houston Community College System
Laredo Community College
Michigan State University
National University
Portland Community College
Rancho Santiago Community College
District Regents of New Mexico State University
San Francisco State University
Skagit Valley College
St. Louis Community College
SUNY at Buffalo State College
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M International University
University of Cincinnati
University of Texas, Pan American
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of Washington
Urban College of Boston, A Two-Year College Inc.

Tribally Controlled Colleges & Universities
Blackfeet Community College
Chief Dull Knife College
College of Menominee Nation
Northwest Indian College
Oglala Lakota College
Sinte Gleska University
SIPI Board of Regents
Sitting Bull College
Stone Child College