Grants to USA IHEs and Associated Organizations to Enhance

Grants to USA IHEs and Associated Organizations to Enhance STEM Education

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR)

GrantWatch ID# 178034

Agency: Federal

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Funding Source

National Science Foundation (NSF)

CFDA Number: 47.076

Funding or PIN Number: NSF 21-579

Geographic Focus

USA: Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York City; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington, DC; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming

Important Dates

Conference Date: 01/03/23
Deadline: 01/18/23 5:00 PM submitter's local time - For IUSE Level 1 and Capacity-Building Proposals

Grant Description

Grants to USA institutes of higher education and associated organizations to improve and enhance STEM education. Applicants are advised that required registrations may take several weeks to finalize. The purpose of this program is to support research projects about STEM learning and teaching that will enhance STEM education for undergraduate students. The IUSE: EHR program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Initiative is a Foundation-wide effort to accelerate improvements in the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate education in all STEM fields. By improving the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate education in all STEM fields, IUSE investments enable NSF to lead national progress toward a diverse and innovative workforce and a STEM-literate public.

The IUSE: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) program seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for all undergraduates. Through its investments, the program seeks to support development, and implementation, and research efforts that (1) bring recent advances in STEM disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge into undergraduate education, (2) adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and (3) lay the groundwork for institutional improvement. Investments made by the IUSE: EHR program seek to contribute to the educational and capacity-building goals of the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources and to the strategic goals and objectives of the NSF.

The IUSE: EHR program supports projects designed to contribute to a future in which all undergraduate students are fully engaged in their STEM learning. The IUSE: EHR program promotes (1) Engaged Student Learning: the development, testing, and use of teaching practices and curricular innovations that will engage students and improve learning, persistence, and retention in STEM, and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation: the transformation of colleges and universities to implement and sustain highly effective STEM teaching and learning.

All projects supported by IUSE: EHR must:

Demonstrate a strong rationale for project objectives or incorporate and build on educational practices that are demonstrably effective
Contribute to the development of exemplary undergraduate STEM education
Add to the body of knowledge about what works in undergraduate STEM education and the conditions that lead to improved STEM teaching and learning
Measure project progress and achievement of project goals

To accomplish these goals, IUSE: EHR projects may focus their activities at any level, including the student, faculty, institutional or community levels. Development, propagation, adaptation, and transferability of evidence-based practices are also important considerations. Projects should consider designing materials and practices for use in a wide variety of institutions or institutional types. Topics of interest to the IUSE: EHR program include, but are not limited to, the following:

Development and study of the efficacy of innovative teaching and learning practices and resources
Development, testing, and dissemination of instruments for measuring student outcomes
Efforts to increase the diversity of the STEM workforce including K-12 teachers and/or the faculty and institutions engaged in work to improve undergraduate STEM education
Faculty professional development to increase the use of evidence-based teaching practices
Implementation of and research on sustained change processes involved in adopting evidence-based and effective instruction within or across departments, disciplines, or institutions
Efforts to achieve STEM educational goals through innovative partnerships, for example with community organizations, local, regional, or national industries, centers for teaching and learning, professional societies, or libraries,
Propagating and sustaining transformative and effective STEM teaching and learning through institutional practices or involvement of professional societies

IUSE: EHR also welcomes proposals to conduct workshops and conferences aimed at improving undergraduate STEM education, developing implementation practices, and/or assembling research partnerships and agendas.

All IUSE: EHR projects are expected to increase knowledge about effective STEM education. This may be achieved through posing one or more research questions that will be answered through the course of the study or through evaluation of project activities, impacts, or outcomes. Projects should include a well-designed plan to gather data and should specify methods of analysis that will be employed to answer the questions posed and mechanisms to evaluate success of the project. Projects should also specify strategies for generating and using formative and summative assessment of project processes, outputs, and/or outcomes.

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Eligibility

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

Additional Criteria for Eligibility

The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations.

Unaffiliated individuals are not eligible to submit proposals in response to this solicitation.

Pre-Proposal Conference

The Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation is hosting a series of office hours for the IUSE program, in support of NSF Program Solicitation 21-579. These office hours are a chance to communicate with NSF program officers and to ask any questions you may have about the program.

- Tuesday, October 11, 2022: 3:00-4:00 (EST)
- Tuesday, November 8, 2022: 3:00-4:00 (EST)
- Tuesday, December 6, 2022: 3:00-4:00 (EST)
- Tuesday, January 3, 2023: 3:00-4:00 (EST)

Zoom Link for all IUSE Office Hours:
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/j/1613417112?pwd=UFd5SS80VXdFSGVaeXlwZ1dINjduQT09

Meeting ID: 161 341 7112
Passcode: 943156

More information:
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/improving-undergraduate-stem-education-education-and-human-resources-iuse-5

Pre-Application Information

Upcoming due dates
Full proposal: 2023
- January 18 - Deadline date: Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter; For IUSE Level 1 and Capacity-Building Proposals
- July 19 - Deadline date: Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter; For IUSE Level 1, 2, 3, and Capacity-Building Proposals

Innovating and migrating proposal preparation and submission capabilities from FastLane to Research.gov is part of the ongoing NSF information technology modernization efforts, as described in Important Notice No. 147. In support of these efforts, research proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation must be prepared and submitted via Research.gov or via Grants.gov, and may not be prepared or submitted via FastLane.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation should be submitted in accordance with the revised NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 22-1), which is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after October 4, 2021.

Full Proposals:
- Full Proposals submitted via Research.gov: NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) guidelines apply. The complete text of the PAPPG is available electronically on the NSF website at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
- Full Proposals submitted via Grants.gov: NSF Grants.gov Application Guide: A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov guidelines apply (Note: The NSF Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the NSF website at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide).

NSF requires that organizations registering to use NSF's electronic systems have a valid and active SAM registration. This SAM registration must be maintained with current information at all times during which an organization has an active award or a proposal under consideration by NSF. Failure to comply with SAM registration requirement prior to proposal submission may impact the processing of the proposal. To register in SAM, go to: https://www.sam.gov. Proposers are advised that entity registration will become active after three to five days when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) validates the Tax ID Number.

HTML of Program Solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21579/nsf21579.htm

NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG):
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg22_1/index.jsp

View this opportunity on Grants.gov:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332912

Additional Funding Information

Estimated Total Program Funding:

$63,000,000

Number of Grants

Estimated Number of Awards: 105; The program estimates making awards for 60 Level 1 projects, 35 Level 2 and 3 projects, and 10 Capacity-Building projects

Estimated Size of Grant

Track: Engaged Student Learning
- Level 1: up to $300,000
- Level 2: $300,001 - $600,000
- Level 3: $600,001 - $2 million

Track: Institutional and Community Transformation
- Capacity-Building: $150K (single institution) or $300K (multiple institutions)
- Level 1: up to $300,000
- Level 2: $300,001 - $2 million (single institution) or $3 million (multiple institutions and research centers)

Term of Contract

Track: Engaged Student Learning
- Level 1: up to three years
- Level 2: up to three years
- Level 3: up to five years

Track: Institutional and Community Transformation
- Capacity-Building: up to two years
- Level 1: up to three years
- Level 2: up to five years

Contact Information

For general inquiries, please contact IUSE@nsf.gov
- Lead - Ellen Carpenter, telephone: (703) 292-5104, email: elcarpen@nsf.gov
- Co-Lead - John Jackman, telephone: (703) 292-4816, email: jjackman@nsf.gov
- Co-Lead - Keith A. Sverdrup, telephone: (703) 292-4671, email: ksverdru@nsf.gov
- Co-Lead - Jill K. Nelson, telephone: (703) 292-4359, email: jnelson@nsf.gov

For specific disciplinary questions, proposers are encouraged to contact a Program Officer in their discipline. See the URL for Full Text, below.

For Research.gov user support, call the Research.gov Help Desk at 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail rgov@nsf.gov. The Research.gov Help Desk answers general technical questions related to the use of the Research.gov system.

For Grants.gov user support, contact the Grants.gov Contact Center at 1-800-518-4726 or by email: support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Contact Center answers general technical questions related to the use of Grants.gov.

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