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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: STEM Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Youth/Students, Disadvantaged Students
Deadline: Mar. 28, 2022
“The goals of the HSI program are to enhance the quality of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate’s or baccalaureate degrees in STEM. Achieving these, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires additional strategies that support building capacity at HSIs through innovative approaches: to incentivize institutional and community transformation; and to promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Intended outcomes of the HSI Program include broadening participation of students that are historically underrepresented in STEM and expanding students’ pathways to continued STEM education and integration into the STEM workforce.
The HSI program accepts proposals in the following tracks:
(1) Track 1: The Planning or Pilot Projects (PPP) track provides a funding opportunity for institutions that are new to NSF or are Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), including community colleges. The PPP has been designed to link with the other two tracks. The PPP track seeks to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at less-resourced institutions and to increase these institutions’ ability to compete for NSF funding from other programs.
(2) Track 2: The Implementation and Evaluation Projects (IEP) track supports the implementation of evidence-based unit-, department-, or multi-department-level activities that will enhance the quality of undergraduate STEM education.All HSI institution types are encouraged to apply, especially PUIs (including community colleges). These projects may design and implement a new educational practice or practices, and/or adapt/replicate evidence-based practices that are already known to be effective.
(3) Track 3: The Institutional Transformation Projects (ITP) track supports institution-wide structural or systemic changes to enhance undergraduate STEM education at the proposing HSI. The ITP must be grounded in STEM education research and broadening participation research and be designed to make institutional infrastructure and policy changes to support long-term institutional changes that encourage and support facultyin implementing evidence-based practices that enhance student outcomes in STEM at the proposing HSI.”
Funder: National Science Foundation
Eligibility: “Non-profit institutions. To be eligible for HSI funding in Track 1, Track 2 , and Track 3, an institution must achieve each of the following criteria on or before the proposal deadline date:
a) Be an accredited institution of higher education.
b) Offer undergraduate STEM educational programs that result in certificates or degrees. Exception note: An institution submitting a PPP Track proposal does not currently need to offer STEM certificates or degrees, but may submit a proposal to develop such programs or enhance the STEM courses provided as part of other degree programs.
c) Satisfy the definition of an HSI as specified in section 502 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a).”
Amount: Up to $3,000,000
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