[STEM-funding] NSF IUSE

[Christopher Andersen]

*1) NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE):* The National
Science Foundation has released a solicitation for the IUSE program (
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082). If the "IUSE"
acronym seems unfamiliar, this program has a genealogy that includes
acronyms that may be more familiar: NSF's venerable "Course, Curriculum,
and Laboratory Improvement" (CCLI) program became the "Transforming
Undergraduate STEM Education" (TUES) program, and TUES was combined with
the "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion
Program" (STEP) program and the "Widening Implementation and Demonstration
of Evidence-based Reforms" (WIDER) program to create IUSE. From the program
solicitation:
In FY 2015, NSF-IUSE serves as the framework for all investments in
research and development that are critical for curricular improvement in
undergraduate STEM education, within formal and informal learning
environments. FY 2015 IUSE programs call for proposals to:
-use and build evidence about improved STEM instructional practices;
-design and study innovative learning opportunities, including
cyberlearning;
-create, implement, and test program, curricular, course, and
technology-driven models;
-develop, implement, and test creative approaches for adoption of education
research into disciplinary teachings;
-develop and validate assessments/metrics for undergraduate STEM learning
and instructional practice; and
-conduct fundamental research on issues of undergraduate STEM teaching and
learning.

For the previous IUSE competition (February 2014), NSF only provided a
program description (just a few paragraphs) to guide proposal preparation.
This new solicitation is much more extensive. The IUSE program now has two
tracks:
*Engaged Student Learning*: "This track focuses on design, development, and
research studies that involve the creation, exploration, or implementation
of tools, resources, and models that show particular promise to increase
engagement of undergraduate students in their STEM learning and lead to
measurable and lasting learning gains."

*Institutional and Community Transformation:* "This track supports projects
that use innovative approaches to substantially increase the propagation of
highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning in institutions of
higher education."

Within each track, there are two tiers:
*Exploration:* "These projects may seek to establish the basis for design
and development of new interventions or strategies, develop strategies for
the adoption, adaptation, and implementation of effective practices, or
adapt and implement strategies shown to be effective at other institutions.
They may also pose new interventions or strategies, and explore challenges
to their adoption, with the goal of informing policy, practice, and future
design or development of components in the STEM higher education
enterprise."

*Design and Development:* These projects "will focus on achieving
propagation beyond a single institution or work to promote change across
multiple STEM disciplines within an institution" or "support ambitious
efforts to achieve the widespread deployment of effective instructional,
curricular, and co-curricular practices in support of student engagement,
learning, and retention."

Proposal deadlines and funding amounts vary by track and tier:
*Engaged Student Learning: Exploration*
Funding up to $250,000 over a period of up to 2 years. Proposals due
October 22, 2014.
*Engaged Student Learning: Design and Development*
Funding up to $600,000 over a period of up to 3 years (Level I), or funding
between $601,000 and $2,000,000 over a period of up to 5 years (Level II).
Proposals due January 13, 2015
*Institutional and Community Transformation: Exploration *
Funding up to $250,000 over a period of up to 2 years. Proposals due
October 24, 2014.
*Institutional and Community Transformation: Design and Development *
Funding up to $3,000,000 over a period of up to 5 years. Proposals due
January 13, 2015

During the coming weeks, NSF will probably schedule webinars to explain the
RFP, release an FAQ, etc. *If you are interested in being added to an IUSE
email list to receive additional updates from me,* sign up at
http://go.osu.edu/ka7 As I'm accumulating IUSE resources, I'll post them at
http://go.osu.edu/IUSE

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Christopher Andersen
Director
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Initiatives
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