Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways to Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS)

 
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    CFDA#

    47.050; 47.076
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    National Science Foundation (NSF)

    Summary

    NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, launched in Fiscal Year 2014, supports a coherent set of investments to 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 NSF-wide IUSE initiative acknowledges 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 Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) contributes to the IUSE initiative through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS) funding opportunity. IUSE: GEOPATHS invites proposals that specifically address the current needs and opportunities related to undergraduate education within the geosciences community. The primary goal of the IUSE: GEOPATHS funding opportunity is to increase the number of undergraduate students interested in pursuing undergraduate degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience through the design and testing of novel approaches for engaging students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. In order to broaden participation in the geosciences, engaging undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented groups or from non-geoscience degree programs is a priority.

    The IUSE: GEOPATHS solicitation features two funding Tracks:

    • Engaging students in the geosciences through extra-curricular experiences and training activities (GEOPATHS-EXTRA), and
    • Improving pathways into the geosciences through institutional collaborations and transfer (GEOPATHS-IMPACT).

     

     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    An organization may serve as sole submitting institution or as lead institution of a collaborative project on only one submission per competition, regardless of track, but may serve as the non-lead institution of a collaborative project more than once per competition.

    Contacts

    Jil L. Karsten

    Jil L. Karsten
    National Science Foundation
    4201 Wilson Boulevard
    Arlington, VA 22230
    (703) 292-7718
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are universities and colleges, including community colleges.

    Deadline Details

    Letters of Intent are required and must be submitted January 7, 2015 or August 14, 2015 by 5:00 PM local time of proposer.

    Full Proposals must be submitted March 16, 2015 or October 5, 2015 by 5:00 PM local time of proposer.

    Award Details

    Approximately $9,000,000 is available in total funding for FY15 and $6,000,000 for FY16. 30 awards are expected to be made in FY15; 20 for the GEOPATHS-EXTRA track and 10 awards for the GEOPATHS-IMPACT track. 20 awards are expected to be made in FY16. Individual awards will be up to $500,000. The average award is expected to range between $300,000 and $350,000. Awards will last up to 36 months. Cost sharing/matching is not required.

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