[STEM-funding] NSF IUSE: EHR, S-STEM, CyberCorps(R) SFS, STEM Teacher Leader Initiative, "Making"
Andersen, Christopher
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Mon Jul 13 17:18:15 EDT 2015
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1) NSF has released a revised solicitation for the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) program. There are several programs under the “IUSE” label (see go.osu.edu/iuse for a listing), and IUSE: EHR is the largest program. From the program synopsis (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082):
The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR) program invites proposals that address immediate challenges and opportunities that are facing undergraduate STEM education, as well as those that anticipate new structures (e.g. organizational changes, new methods for certification or credentialing, course re-conception, cyberlearning, etc.) and new functions of the undergraduate learning and teaching enterprise. The IUSE: EHR program recognizes and respects the variety of discipline-specific challenges and opportunities facing STEM faculty as they strive to incorporate results from educational research into classroom practice and work with education research colleagues and social science learning scholars to advance our understanding of effective teaching and learning.
The program 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. Projects are encouraged to form collaborations among STEM disciplinary researchers, education researchers, and cognitive scientists so that their projects can best leverage what is known about how people learn and/or contribute to the growth of that body of knowledge."
Institutional and Community Transformation: "This track supports projects that use innovative approaches to increase substantially the widespread use of highly effective, evidence-based STEM teaching and learning, curricular, and co-curricular practices in institutions of higher education or across/within disciplinary communities. These projects may be proposed by an institution or set of institutions; alternatively, the community proposals may be submitted through professional communities, including discipline-based professional societies and networks or organizations that represent institutions of higher education."
And the program has two tiers of funding:
Exploration and Design projects are small-scale efforts that "may seek to establish the basis for Development and Implementation 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.”
Development and Implementation projects are larger-scale efforts "may focus on new or promising interventions or strategies to achieve well-specified STEM learning objectives, including making refinements on the basis of small-scale testing."
Funding levels and deadlines:
Engaged Student Learning
Exploration and Design Tier
Up to $300K over 3 years. Proposals due November 3, 2015.
Development and Implementation Tier I
Up to $600K over 3 years. Proposals due January 13, 2016.
Development and Implementation Tier I
$601K–$2 million over up to 5 years. Proposals due January 13, 2016.
Institutional and Community Transformation
Exploration and Design Tier
Up to $300K over 3 years. Proposals due November 3, 2015.
Development and Implementation
$5 million over up to 5 years. Proposals due January 13, 2016.
As IUSE workshops and webinars are scheduled by NSF, STEM Initiatives, and other organizations, they will be added to the Events listing<http://steminitiatives.osu.edu/events> on the STEM Initiatives website (http://steminitiatives.osu.edu/events). To receive emails from STEM Initiatives about IUSE, sign up at this Google Doc<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p8HLda0Yq50lAMzEZQLyBzCmPe2GjQ-_ay5yHU4jrVE/> (http://go.osu.edu/ka7<https://go.osu.edu/ka7>). More information about IUSE: EHR (and other IUSE programs) is at http://go.osu.edu/iuse.
2) NSF has also released a revised solicitation for the Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program. From the program synopsis (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257):
The program seeks to increase the success of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships, and to enhance and study effective curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation in STEM.
In this solicitation, the acronym STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that includes biological sciences (except medicine and other clinical fields); physical sciences (including physics, chemistry, astronomy, and materials science); mathematical sciences; computer and information sciences; geosciences; engineering; and technology areas associated with the preceding disciplines (for example, biotechnology, chemical technology, engineering technology, information technology, etc.)
The program has two strands:
Strand 1: S-STEM Institutional Capacity Building "seeks to increase the participation of institutions that have limited experience with designing and conducting activities.” Budgets are up to $650,000 over 5 years. At least 60% of total amount requested must be requested for scholarships.
Strand 2: S-STEM Design and Development "seeks to leverage S-STEM funds with institutional efforts and infrastructure.” There are two tiers of Strand 2 budgets:
Type 1 (Single institution): Up to $1 million over 5 years
Type 2 (Multi-institution consortia): Up to $5 million over 5 years
There are two competitions: September 22, 2015, and May 16, 2016.
NSF has recorded a series of presentations about the new S-STEM solicitation. Viewing all 7 presentations takes about an hour:
Overview of the New Program
Strand 1: S-STEM Institutional Capacity Building
Strand 2: Single Institution
Strand 2: Multi-Institution
Proposal Content Info for New PIs
Project Description Contents
Merit Review Criteria
NSF will host three WebEx Q&A sessions:
Wednesday, July 15 from 2–3pm
Thursday, July 16 from 1–2pm
Tuesday, July 21 from 3–4pm
More information about the recorded presentations and WebEx Q&A sessions is at http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135181
3) NSF has released a revised CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) solicitation. From the program synopsis (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504991):
The CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks proposals that address cybersecurity education and workforce development. The Scholarship Track provides funding to award scholarships to students in cybersecurity. All scholarship recipients must work after graduation for a Federal, State, Local, or Tribal Government organization in a position related to cybersecurity for a period equal to the length of the scholarship. A proposing institution must provide clearly documented evidence of a strong existing academic program in cybersecurity. Such evidence can include: designation by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education/Cyber Defense (CAE IA/CD), in Cyber Operations or in Research (CAE-R); a specialized designation by a nationally recognized organization (for example, in forensics); or equivalent evidence documenting a strong program in cybersecurity.
The Capacity Track seeks innovative proposals leading to an increase in the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce cybersecurity professionals. Proposals are encouraged that contribute to the expansion of existing educational opportunities and resources in cybersecurity and focus on efforts such as research on the teaching and learning of cybersecurity, including research on materials, methods and interventions; curricula recommendations for new courses, degree programs, and educational pathways with plans for wide adoption nationally; teaching and learning effectiveness of cybersecurity curricular programs and courses; integration of cybersecurity topics into computer science, data science, information technology, engineering and other existing degree programs with plans for pervasive adoption; and partnerships between institutions of higher education, government, and relevant employment sectors leading to improved models for the integration of applied research experiences into cybersecurity degree programs.
For the Scholarship Track, “a typical award might be approximately $3-5 million for five years supporting four cohort classes of six students each.” Proposals are due September 25.
For the Capacity Track, awards may be up to $500,000 over 5 years. Proposals are due December 18.
4) NSF has released a pair of “Dear Colleague” Letter announcing funding opportunities:
NSF STEM Teacher Leader Initiative (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15092/nsf15092.jsp): From an email exchange with an NSF program officer:
A project proposed in response to the DCL must 1) be for “already identified teacher leaders” rather than a project that “develops” new Teacher Leaders AND 2) serve “already identified teacher leaders” from previously NSF-funded Teacher Leadership projects awarded under one or more of these programs: NSF Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the Master Teacher Fellowship of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the DOE/NSF Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, the NSF Math and Science Partnership program Teacher Institutes for 21st Century (or if a Targeted or Comprehensive project identified Teacher Leaders as a strategy), and the NSF Research Experiences for Teachers Program.
The goal of this DCL is not to develop more teacher leaders but to explore projects/models for more effectively engaging those teacher leaders in whom NSF has already invested (through the above programs) for moving them into the forefront of their profession and out into the state and national arenas. It is the expectation that there be a significant demonstration within the proposals to show that the majority of the teacher leaders partaking in the proposed activity consists of teacher leaders who were past participants in one or more of the above programs.
Proposals may request up to $300K over two years. Deadline is July 22.
Enabling the Future of Making to Catalyze New Approaches in STEM Learning and Innovation: From the Letter (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15086/nsf15086.jsp?org=NSF):
Specifically, NSF challenges and encourages the community to submit innovative proposals for fundamental research or the integration of research and education that:
* Elucidate the processes and potential benefits of learning, e.g. design thinking, in the Maker context;
* Leverage Making to develop and test its role in improving the effectiveness of formal and informal learning pathways for increasing retention and broadening participation in STEM for students and faculty;
* Explore new ideas and models of formal and informal STEM learning by leveraging existing knowledge in Making;
* Investigate and test effectiveness of new approaches to design and innovation enabled by Maker spaces and practices;
* Enable new tools and knowledge for design and prototyping across all disciplines that can significantly increase Making capabilities; and
* Further the understanding of innovation processes from prototypes through their transition to products that have greater societal and economic impact through enhanced marketability and large-scale market adoption.
No funding level is specified. Proposals are due December 17.
[The Ohio State University]
Christopher Andersen
Director
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Initiatives
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