1. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
“National Science Foundation: Funding Opportunities for Community Colleges and Partnerships ” CIT 2009
Eun-Woo Chang,
Program Director
Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation

2. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Caution
Most of the information presented in this talk represents the opinions of the individual program officers and is not an official NSF position.

5. “EHR’s 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.”

8. NSF Structures

9. Two-Year College Snapshot*
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Two-Year College Snapshot*
Number and Type of Colleges:
Total: 1195
Public: 987 Independent: 177 Tribal: 31
Enrollment:
Total: 11.5 million
Credit: 6.5 million Non-Credit: 5.0 million
Full-time: 41% Part-time: 59%
*National profile of community colleges: Trends and statistics (4th ed.), 2005

10. Two-Year College Snapshot *
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Two-Year College Snapshot *
Demographics:
Average age: 29
First-generation: 39% single parent: 17%
Community College students constitute the following percentage of undergraduates:
All undergraduates: 46%
Black: 46% Hispanic: 55% Native American: 55% Asian/Pacific Islander: 46%
First-time freshmen: 41%
*National profile of community colleges: Trends and statistics (4th ed.), 2005

11. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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 bachelor’s or master’s degree attended a community college (more than 50% of the bachelors and 35% of the masters)
* 51% of Hispanic bachelor’s and masters graduates and 18% of the Hispanic Ph.D.s attended a community college

12. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

13. NSF Budget Education and Human Resources (EHR):
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NSF Budget
Education and Human Resources (EHR):
FY 2009 (Actual) $845 Million
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE):
FY 2007 (Actual) $ Million
FY 2008 (Estimate) $ Million
FY 2009 (Requested) $ 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.

14. NSF Budget * Stimulus Plan 2009 for DUE
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NSF Budget
* Stimulus Plan 2009 for DUE
- NOYCE Scholarship Program: 60 M
- Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program: 25 M

15. Selected Programs in DUE
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Selected Programs in DUE
FY FY FY (Actual) (Estimate) (Requested)
ATE $ $ $51.62
CCLI $ $ $39.21
STEP $ $ $29.70
S-STEM ~ $75 /year from H1B visa fee
NOYCE $ $ $115
*(in Million)

16. NSF support for two-year college projects (FY 2006-2008)
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NSF support for two-year college projects (FY )
FY2006
FY2007
FY2008
Program
Award # ($)
ATE
128 (44M)
119 (50M)
151 (50M)
CCLI
5 (0.6M)
9 (1.5M)
19 (2.0M)
S-STEM
34 (17.8M)
25 (19M)
35 (16M)
STEP
4 (2.8M)
7 (5M)
4 (2.1M)
MSP -
2 (0.58M)
Noyce
1 (0.24M)
0 (0)
Total DUE
172 (66M)
160 (75M)
212 (71M)
Total NSF
218 (82M)
212 (91M)
278(101M)

17. The Unconventional Way of Repairing

18. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF

19. CCLI Vision Excellent STEM education for all undergraduate students
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

20. CCLI Supports efforts that
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

21. CCLI Supports efforts that - Prepare future K-12 teachers
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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 itself

22. CCLI Program especially encourages projects that:
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

23. CCLI Cyclic Model New Materials and Strategies
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Research on Teaching and Learning
Implement Innovation
New Materials and Strategies
Increase Faculty Expertise
Assess And
Evaluate

24. PROJECT COMPONENTS * Creating Learning Materials and Strategies
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
PROJECT COMPONENTS
* Creating Learning Materials and Strategies
- Incorporate ideas from research on teaching and learning
- Incorporate scientific advances in disciplines

25. PROJECT COMPONENTS * Implementing New Instructional Strategies
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
PROJECT COMPONENTS
* Implementing New Instructional Strategies
- Implement proven or promising techniques in ways that encourage widespread adoption
- Add knowledge about transfer of strategies and impact on learning

26. PROJECT COMPONENTS * Developing Faculty Expertise
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
PROJECT COMPONENTS
* Developing Faculty Expertise
- Increase instructor’s knowledge and skills on curricula and teaching practices
- Involve diverse group of faculty

27. PROJECT COMPONENTS * Assessing and Evaluating Student Achievement
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
PROJECT COMPONENTS
* Assessing and Evaluating Student Achievement
- Develop and disseminate valid and reliable tests of STEM knowledge and skills
- Collect, synthesize, and interpret information about students

28. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
PROJECT COMPONENTS
* Conducting Research on Undergraduate STEM Education
- Explore how undergraduate STEM students learn
- Explore how practices have diffused and how faculty and programs implement changes

29. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NOTE:
Instrumentation and equipment requests are appropriate - based on learning impact

30. Important Project Features
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

31. Important Project Features
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

32. NSF Merit Review Criteria
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NSF Merit Review Criteria
* Additional intellectual merit review criteria:
- Produce exemplary material, processes, or models that enhance student learning
- Yield important findings related to student learning
- Build on existing knowledge about STEM education
- State expected outcomes & integrate them into evaluation plan
- Describe evaluation plan that is likely to produce useful information

33. NSF Merit Review Criteria
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
NSF Merit Review Criteria
* Additional broader impacts review criteria:
- Contribute to the understanding of STEM education
- Help build the STEM education community
- Have a broad impact on recognized need or opportunity
- Have the potential to contribute to transformative change

34. Type 1 Projects - 70 to 75 awards expected
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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 2010

35. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Type 1 Projects
- Typically involve a single institution & one program component
- Contribute to the understanding of undergraduate STEM education

36. Type 2 Projects - 20 to 25 awards expected
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Type 2 Projects
- 20 to 25 awards expected
- Total budget up to $600,000 for 2 to 4 years.
- Deadline: January 13, 2010

37. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

38. Type 3 Projects - 3 to 5 awards expected
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Type 3 Projects
- 3 to 5 awards expected
- Budget negotiable, but not to exceed $5,000,000 over 5 years.
- Deadline January 13, 2010

39. Type 3 Projects - Large scale efforts
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

40. CCLI Central Resource Projects
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

41. CCLI Central Resource Projects
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

42. Advanced Technological Education PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF 07-530
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Advanced Technological Education
(ATE)
PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF

43. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
*Goal: Educate technicians for the high-tech fields that drive our nation’s economy
*Sample activities:
- Curriculum development
- Faculty professional development
- Building career pathways

44. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

45. ATE Institution Requirements
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

46. ATE Tracks *Projects - Program improvement
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
ATE Tracks
*Projects
- Program improvement
- Professional development for educators
- Curriculum and educational materials development
- Teacher preparation
- Small grants to new awardees**

47. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Small grants
- Focus on community colleges that have little or no previous ATE grant experience
- Designed to stimulate implementation, adaptation, and innovation in technological education

48. ATE Tracks * ATE Centers - National Centers of Excellence
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
ATE Tracks
* ATE Centers
- National Centers of Excellence
- Regional Centers of Excellence
- Resource Centers
*Targeted research on technician education

49. ATE awards (FY2008) *Typical award sizes:
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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)

50. ATE Professional Development Opportunities
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
ATE Professional Development Opportunities
- Go to
- Now over 100 professional development opportunities

51. Number of Awards per State in ATE’s 15 Year History Total number of Awards (865)9 30
WASHINGTON 6
MAINE 3
MONTANA 5
NORTH DAKOTA 18
MINNESOTA 2
VT. 7
N.H. 25
OREGON 19
WISCONSIN 62
MA. 2
IDAHO 4
SOUTH DAKOTA 47
NEW YORK 2
WYOMING 16
MICHIGAN
14 CT. 16
PENNSYLVANIA
1 R.I. 23
IOWA
16 N.J. 7
NEBRASKA 3
NEVADA 42
OHIO
2 DEL. 28
ILLINOIS 8
INDIANA 2
UTAH 15
COLORADO 2
W.V.
26 MD. 22
VIRGINIA 6
MISSOURI 3
KANSAS
20 D.C. 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 3
ALASKA 32
FLA.
3 PUERTO RICO
HAWAII

52. ATE Centers of Excellence (36)
National Center
Regional Center
Resource Center

53. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

54. Foci of ATE Awards FY 96-06 2007 2008 Biotechnology 47 5 8
Chemical Technology/Pulp & Paper/Environmental 58 3 1
Multidisciplinary/Institution Reform 43 4 2
Electronics/Microelectronics/Nanotech/Mechatronics/Lasers 23 7
Other Engineering Technology 75 10
Geospatial (GIS/GPS/Surveying) 28
Manufacturing 92
Math/Physics/Computational Science/Core 40
Computer/Information Systems/Cybersecurity/Telecommunications
139
Marine/Agriculture/Aquaculture/Natural Resources/Viticulture 20
Teacher Preparation 34
Multimedia
Energy Technology 6 9
Research/Evaluation
Recruitment/Retention
Totals
614 54 69
Foci of ATE Awards

55. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program
(STEP)

56. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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)

57. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

58. STEP - Type 1 *Possible project activities:
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
STEP - Type 1
*Possible project activities:
- Focus directly on student learning
- Incorporate current technology
- Develop interdisciplinary approaches
- Offer bridge programs
Note: Increases in a particular field must not be at the expense of other fields!

59. Submission & Funding Trends
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Submission & Funding Trends
Fiscal Year
Type 1
Type 2
Submitted
Awarded
2005
170 22 16 2
2006
141 -
2007
135 19 21
2008
139 20 14
2009
153
~20 11
1-3

60. STEP awards (FY2009) Maximum award sizes:
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
STEP awards (FY2009)
Maximum award sizes:
*Type 1 (15-20 awards anticipated)
$100K/year for 5 years for SFTE < 5000
$200K/year for 5 years for 5000 < SFTE < 15000
$400K/year for 5 years for < SFTE
*Type 2: $500K/year for 3 years
(2 awards anticipated)

61. STEP Letter of Intent: August 18, 2009 August 17, 2010
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
STEP
Letter of Intent: August 18, August 17, 2010
Proposal Due Date: September 29, 2009
September 28, 2010

62. Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering,
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Scholarships in Science,
Technology, Engineering,
and
Mathematics 
(S-STEM)

63. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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, 2009 Full Proposal: August, 2009

64. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

65. S-STEM *Special Program Features
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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.

66. Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF NSF

67. Noyce Program *Initiated by Act of Congress in 2002
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

68. Noyce Program *Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Track
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

69. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Noyce Program
NSF Teaching Fellowships & Master Teaching Fellowships (TF/MTF) Track
Fellowships for STEM professionals receiving teacher certification through a master’s degree program
Fellowships for science and math teachers preparing to become Master Teachers

70. Noyce Program Eligibility
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Noyce Program Eligibility
Proposals may only be submitted by:
- Universities & 2- or 4-year colleges
- Nonprofit entities that have established consortia among such IHEs
Principal Investigators:
- The PI, or at least one Co-PI, must be a faculty member in a STEM department.

71. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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.

72. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

73. Noyce Program Projects include - Recruitment strategies
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

74. Noyce Scholarship Track
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Noyce Scholarship Track
Phase I:
- For institutions not previously funded by Noyce
- Institutions with current Noyce award may submit proposal with new focus

75. Noyce Scholarship Track
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

76. Noyce Program Letters of Intent (optional): February, 2010
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Noyce Program
Letters of Intent (optional): February, 2010
Full Proposal Deadline: March, 2010

77. Information about funded proposals
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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

78. Information about funded proposals

83. Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
“National Science Foundation: Funding Opportunities for Community Colleges and Partnerships ” CIT 2009
Eun-Woo Chang,
Program Director
Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation