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NSFs Division of Undergraduate Education
Funding Opportunities for Community Colleges and
Partnerships Innovations 2009

• Eun-Woo Chang Eileen Lewis
• ewchang_at_nsf.gov ellewis_at_nsf.gov
• Division of Undergraduate Education
• National Science Foundation
• March 16, 2009

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Purpose of this session

• To share information about several
  specific NSF programs from which you may wish
  to seek funding

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www.nsf.gov
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• EHRs Mission is to promote the development of a
  diverse
• and well-prepared workforce of scientists,
  engineers, mathematicians, educators, and
  technicians
• and a well informed citizenry who have access to
  the ideas and tools of science and engineering.

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The Role of Community Colleges in the Education
of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates

• 44 of all S E 1999 and 2000 graduates with a
  bachelors or masters degree attended a
  community college (more than 50 of the bachelors
  and 35 of the masters)
• 51 of Hispanic bachelors and masters graduates
  and 18 of the Hispanic Ph.D.s attended a
  community college

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The Role of Community Colleges in the Education
of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates

• 62 of female graduates and 51 of male graduates
  who had children attended a community college
• 42 of the graduates who had a GPA between 3.75
  and 4.00 attended a community college

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NSF Budget

• Education and Human Resources (EHR)
• FY 2009 (Requested) 709 Million
• Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
• FY 2007 (Actual) 204.96 Million
• FY 2008 (Estimate) 211.05 Million
• FY 2009 (Requested) 219.83 Million
• Note Extra 75 million from H-1B visa fees
  employers pay to obtain a visa for a foreign
• high-tech worker to fund the S-STEM program.

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NSF Budget

• Stimulus Plan 2009 for DUE
• - NOYCE Scholarship Program 60 M
• - Math and Science Partnership (MSP)
  Program 25 M

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Selected Programs in DUE

• FY2007 FY2008 FY2009
  (Actual) (Estimate)
  (Requested)
• ATE 50.58 51.62 51.62
• CCLI 37.78 37.50 39.21
• STEP 28.90 29.70 29.70
• S-STEM 75 /year from H1B visa fee
• NOYCE 10.30 10.80 (55) 11.60 (115)
• (in Million)

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NSF support for two-year college projects FY
2006-2008
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The Unconventional Way of Repairing
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Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
(CCLI) PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF 09-529
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CCLI

• Vision
• Excellent STEM education for all undergraduate
  students.
• Goal
• Stimulate, disseminate, and institutionalize
  innovative developments in STEM education through
  the production of knowledge and the improvement
  of practice.
• Most comprehensive program

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Cyclic Model
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CCLI

• Supports efforts that
• Bring advances in STEM disciplinary knowledge
  into curriculum
• Create or adapt learning materials and teaching
  strategies
• Develop faculty expertise
• Promote widespread implementation of educational
  innovations

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CCLI

• Supports efforts that
• Prepare future K-12 teachers
• Enhance our understanding of how students learn
  STEM topics
• Enhance our understanding how faculty adopt
  instructional approaches
• Build capacity for assessment and evaluation
• Further the work of the program

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CCLI

• Program especially encourages projects that
• Have potential to transform undergraduate STEM
  education
• Produce widespread adoption of classroom
  practices based on how students learn
• Explore cyberlearning

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PROJECT COMPONENTS

• NOTE
• Instrumentation and equipment requests are
  appropriate -- based on learning impact

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Important Project Features

• Quality, Relevance, and Impact
• Describe a recognized need or opportunity and an
  innovative approach
• Student Focus
• Link activities and improvements in STEM learning
• Knowledge about STEM Education
• Build on existing work disseminate new finding
  and results
• STEM Education Community-Building
• Interact with others in the STEM education
  community

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Important Project Features

• Sustainability
• Demonstrate reasonable expectation of persistent
  effects
• Expected Measurable Outcomes
• Describe goals expected measurable outcomes
• Project Evaluation
• Monitor progress toward expected outcomes and
  success in achieving them

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Type 1 Projects

• 70 to 75 awards expected
• Total budget up to 200,000 for 2 to 3 years
• 250,000 when 4-year and 2-year schools
  collaborate
• Deadline
• May 21, 2009 (A-M states)
• May 22, 2009 (N-Z states)

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Type 1 Projects

• Typically involve a single institution one
  program component
• Contribute to the understanding of undergraduate
  STEM education

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Type 2 Projects

• 20 to 25 awards expected
• Total budget up to 600,000 for 2 to 4 years.
• Deadline January 13, 2010

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Type 2 Projects

• Typically involve multiple institutions several
  program components but exceptions
• Typically based on prior work with results
  explicitly described but exceptions
• Produce evidence on the effectiveness
• Institutionalize at the participating schools

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Type 3 Projects

• 3 to 5 awards expected
• Budget negotiable, but not to exceed 5,000,000
  over 5 years.
• Deadline January 13, 2010

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Type 3 Projects

• Large scale efforts
• Typically based on prior work with results
  explicitly described but exceptions
• Produce evidence of student learning in a broad
  population
• Describe impact of the work on the prevailing
  models
• Describe strategies for implementation in new
  contexts

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CCLI Central Resource Projects

• 1 to 3 awards expected
• Budget negotiable, depending on the scope and
  scale of the activity
• Small focused workshop projects -- 1 to 2 years
  up to 100,000
• Large scale projects -- 3 to 5 years 300,000
  to 3,000,000
• Deadline January 13, 2010

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CCLI Central Resource Projects

• Implement activities to sustain the STEM
  community
• Increase the capabilities of and communications
  in the STEM community
• Increase and document the impact of CCLI projects

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Advanced Technological Education(ATE)
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ATE

• Goal Educate technicians for the high-tech
  fields that drive our nations economy
• Sample activities
• Curriculum development
• Faculty professional development
• Building career pathways

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ATE

• ATE is in its 16th year of funding community
  colleges, having started with the Science and
  Advanced Technology Act of 1992 (SATA).
• FY2009
• Preliminary Proposals April 23, 2009
• Formal Proposals Oct. 15, 2009

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ATE Institution Requirements

• Focus is on two-year colleges
• All proposals are expected to include one or more
  two-year colleges in leadership roles
• A consortium of institutions may also apply

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ATE Tracks

• Projects
• Program improvement
• Professional development for educators
• Curriculum and educational materials development
• Teacher preparation
• Small grants to new awardees

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Small grants

• Focus on community colleges that have little or
  no previous ATE grant experience
• Designed to stimulate implementation, adaptation,
  and innovation in tech. education

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ATE Tracks

• ATE Centers
• National Centers of Excellence
• Regional Centers of Excellence
• Resource Centers
• Targeted research on technician education

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ATE awards (FY2008)

• Typical award sizes
• Projects 200K / year for 3 years
• (45 new awards)
• Small Grants 75K / year for 2 years (15
  new awards)
• National Centers 1.2M / year for 4 years
  (2 new awards)

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ATE Professional Development Opportunities

• Go to www.TeachingTechnicians.org
• Now over 100 professional development
  opportunities

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Number of Awards per State in ATEs 15 Year
HistoryTotal number of Awards (865)
30 WASHINGTON
6 MAINE
3 MONTANA
5 NORTH DAKOTA
18 MINNESOTA
2 VT.
7 N.H.
25 OREGON
19 WISCONSIN
62 MA.
2 IDAHO
47 NEW YORK
4 SOUTH DAKOTA
2 WYOMING
16 MICHIGAN
14 CT.
16 PENNSYLVANIA
1 R.I.
23 IOWA
16 N.J.
7 NEBRASKA
3 NEVADA
42 OHIO
2 DEL.
8 INDIANA
28 ILLINOIS
2 UTAH
26 MD.
2 W.V.
15 COLORADO
22 VIRGINIA
6 MISSOURI
20 D.C.
3 KANSAS
18 KENTUCKY
99 CALIFORNIA
18 NORTH CAROLINA
18 TENNESSEE
7 OKLAHOMA
21 ARIZONA
4 ARKANSAS
22 S.C.
16 NEW MEXICO
9 GEORGIA
12 MISS.
15 ALABAMA
53 TEXAS
3 LOUISIANA
32 FLA.
3 ALASKA
3 PUERTO RICO
HAWAII
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ATE Centers of Excellence (36)
National Center
Regional Center
Resource Center
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
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STEP

• Goal
• to increase the number of students (U.S.
  citizens or permanent residents) RECEIVING
  associate or baccalaureate degrees in established
  or emerging fields within science, technology,
  engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

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STEP Tracks

• Type 1 Implement strategies that will increase
  the number of students obtaining STEM degrees.
• Type 2 Conduct research on factors affecting
  associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in
  STEM

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STEP Type 1

• Possible project activities
• Focus directly on student learning
• Incorporate current technology
• Develop interdisciplinary approaches
• Offer bridge programs
• Increases in a particular field must not be at
  the expense of other fields!

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Submission Funding Trends
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STEP awards (FY2008)

• Maximum award sizes
• Type 1 (15-20 awards anticipated)
• 100K/year for 5 years for SFTE lt5000
• 200K/year for 5 years for 5000ltSFTElt15000
• 400K/year for 5 years for 15000ltSFTE
• Type 2 500K/year for 3 years
• (2 awards anticipated)

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STEP

• Letter of Intent August 18, 2009
  August 17, 2010
• Proposal Due Date
• September 29, 2009
• September 28, 2010

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Scholarships in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics  (S-STEM)

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S-STEM

• Goal Provides institutions funds to provide
  scholarships to academically talented, but
  financial needy, students. Students can be
  pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate
  degrees.
• Letter of Intent July ?, 2009Full Proposal
  August ?, 2009

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S-STEM

• Eligible disciplines extended to include
  biology, physical and mathematical sciences,
  computer and information sciences, geosciences,
  and engineering
• Maximum scholarships 10,000
• (based on financial need)
• Grant size up to 600,000
• One proposal per constituent school or college
• About 50-70 million available

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S-STEM

• Special Program Features
• Has a faculty member in a STEM discipline as the
  PI.
• Involves cohorts of students.
• Provides student support structures.
• Includes optional enhancements such as research
  opportunities, tutoring, internships, etc.
• Enrolls students full time.

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Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program NSF
09-513
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Noyce Program

• Initiated by Act of Congress in 2002
• Reauthorized in 2007 (America COMPETES Act)
• To encourage talented mathematics, science, and
  engineering undergraduates to pursue teaching
  careers
• To encourage STEM professionals to become
  teachers
• To prepare Master Teachers

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Noyce Program

• Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Track
• Scholarships for undergraduate STEM majors
  preparing to become K-12 Teachers
• Internships for freshmen and sophomores
• Stipends for STEM professionals seeking to become
  K-12 teachers

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Noyce Program Eligibility

• Proposals may only be submitted by
• Universities 2- or 4-year colleges
• Nonprofit entities that have established
  consortia among such Institutions of Higher
  Educations
• Principal Investigators
• The PI, or at least one Co-PI, must be a faculty
  member in a STEM department.

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Scholarship Track

• To recruit undergraduate STEM majors and STEM
  career changers who might otherwise not have
  considered a career in K-12 teaching
• Summer internships for freshmen and sophomores to
  interest students in STEM teaching
• Scholarships of at least 10,000 per year for up
  to three years beginning in junior year
• Students graduate with a degree in a STEM
  discipline and teacher certification and/or
  licensing.

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Scholarship Track

• One-year stipends of at least 10,000 for STEM
  professionals (career-changers) pursuing teacher
  certification
• Scholarships and stipends capped by cost of
  attendance
• Recipients commit to teaching in a high need
  school district for 2 years for each year of
  scholarship/stipend support.
• Recipients failing to meet service requirement
  must repay scholarship

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Noyce Program

• Projects include
• Recruitment strategies
• STEM faculty collaborating with Education faculty
• Strong partnership with school district
• Exemplary teacher preparation programs leading to
  certification
• Support for new teachers
• Mechanism for monitoring recipients
• Evaluation

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Noyce Scholarship Track

• Phase I
• For institutions not previously funded by Noyce
• Institutions with current Noyce award may submit
  proposal with new focus

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Noyce Scholarship Track

• Phase I
• Scholarships, Stipends, Internships
• Award size up to 900,000
• Duration up to 5 years
• No indirect costs
• Administrative/programmatic costs may not exceed
  20 of total budget
• 80 of budget for direct support to participants

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Noyce Program

• Letters of Intent (optional) February 10, 2009
• Full Proposal Deadline
• March 10, 2009
• 500 P.M. proposers local time

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Information about funded proposals

• Go to the DUE Home website on NSF
• Find the Program of interest to you
• Go to the bottom of that page and click on
  Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This
  Program
• Write to the PI requesting a copy of her/his
  proposal.
• An example follows for the Noyce Program

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Information about funded proposals
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Thank you!