Overall, the LSAMP program provides funding to alliances that implement comprehensive, evidence-based, innovative, and sustained strategies that ultimately result in the graduation of well-prepared, highly-qualified students from underrepresented minority groups who pursue graduate studies or careers in STEM. Alliances are consortia of multiple degree-granting institutions. Organizations from other sectors, including informal science organizations, may be participants.
Projects focus on pre-college and undergraduate recruitment and retention activities. Additionally, the project may focus on activities dedicated to diversifying a particular STEM discipline.
These projects are targeted to newly-created alliances, reconstituted alliances or alliances that have received support by the program for 10 years or less. Initial institutionalization and sustainability planning for the alliance should be addressed in the project description. Projects are five years in duration. STEM Pathways and Research Alliances are projects that focus on the full STEM pathway and provide direct support for undergraduate students but also serve as a hub for the production of scholarly STEM research and evaluation to increase the knowledge-base and utilization in broadening participation.
Projects are required to address the current state of its institutionalization and sustainability efforts and address these areas in evaluation planning. All required components must be addressed to be competitive for this project type. These are five-year projects. Bridge to the Baccalaureate B2B Alliances involve associate degree producing institutions for which the lead institution must be a community college. After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals recommended for funding will be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements for review of business, financial, and policy implications.
After an administrative review has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers perform the processing and issuance of a grant or other agreement. Proposers are cautioned that only a Grants and Agreements Officer may make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. A Principal Investigator or organization that makes financial or personnel commitments in the absence of a grant or cooperative agreement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their own risk.
Once an award or declination decision has been made, Principal Investigators are provided feedback about their proposals. In all cases, reviews are treated as confidential documents. In addition, the proposer will receive an explanation of the decision to award or decline funding. Notification of the award is made to the submitting organization by a Grants Officer in the Division of Grants and Agreements.
Organizations whose proposals are declined will be advised as promptly as possible by the cognizant NSF Program administering the program. Verbatim copies of reviews, not including the identity of the reviewer, will be provided automatically to the Principal Investigator. See Section VI. Paper copies may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, telephone or by e-mail from nsfpubs nsf. In addition to general terms and conditions, special award conditions may be included in the award notice s as follows:.
Grantees may be required to submit contingency plans for alternative activities should the current pandemic prevent implementation of proposed on campus activities or travel. Awardees are required to address the progress of evaluation efforts in annual reporting. A copy of the evaluator's report must be submitted with 3rd year reporting for 5 year projects. Evaluation reports for all funded projects must include progress articulated by proposed goal, objective, or activity.
Evaluation reports for all funded projects should also include highlights that capture interesting accomplishments or features of the projects. For alliance proposals only: Activities of the Governing Board and other advisory bodies must be addressed in annual and final reporting.
No participant support funding will be approved for reallocation to support administration of the BD activity. These may occur at any time during the grant period and sometimes after the grant period has ended.
Reasonable cooperation with these efforts is required by the grantee. Future increments may be deferred or reduced by the level of residual funding remaining during the previous project year. For all multi-year grants including both standard and continuing grants , the Principal Investigator must submit an annual project report to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days prior to the end of the current budget period.
Some programs or awards require submission of more frequent project reports. No later than days following expiration of a grant, the PI also is required to submit a final project report, and a project outcomes report for the general public. Failure to provide the required annual or final project reports, or the project outcomes report, will delay NSF review and processing of any future funding increments as well as any pending proposals for all identified PIs and co-PIs on a given award.
PIs should examine the formats of the required reports in advance to assure availability of required data. Such reports provide information on accomplishments, project participants individual and organizational , publications, and other specific products and impacts of the project.
Submission of the report via Research. The project outcomes report also must be prepared and submitted using Research. This report serves as a brief summary, prepared specifically for the public, of the nature and outcomes of the project. Please note that the program contact information is current at the time of publishing. Douglas, Program Specialist, telephone: , email: cdouglas nsf. The NSF website provides the most comprehensive source of information on NSF Directorates including contact information , programs and funding opportunities.
Use of this website by potential proposers is strongly encouraged. In addition, "NSF Update" is an information-delivery system designed to keep potential proposers and other interested parties apprised of new NSF funding opportunities and publications, important changes in proposal and award policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences.
Subscribers are informed through e-mail or the user's Web browser each time new publications are issued that match their identified interests. NSF funding opportunities may be accessed via this mechanism. Further information on Grants. The Act states the purpose of the NSF is "to promote the progress of science; [and] to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare by supporting research and education in all fields of science and engineering.
NSF funds research and education in most fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants and cooperative agreements to more than 2, colleges, universities, K school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and other research organizations throughout the US.
The Foundation accounts for about one-fourth of Federal support to academic institutions for basic research. NSF receives approximately 55, proposals each year for research, education and training projects, of which approximately 11, are funded. In addition, the Foundation receives several thousand applications for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The agency operates no laboratories itself but does support National Research Centers, user facilities, certain oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic research stations.
The Foundation also supports cooperative research between universities and industry, US participation in international scientific and engineering efforts, and educational activities at every academic level. The National Science Foundation promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
The information requested on proposal forms and project reports is solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of , as amended. The information on proposal forms will be used in connection with the selection of qualified proposals; and project reports submitted by awardees will be used for program evaluation and reporting within the Executive Branch and to Congress.
Information about Principal Investigators may be added to the Reviewer file and used to select potential candidates to serve as peer reviewers or advisory committee members. Failure to provide full and complete information, however, may reduce the possibility of receiving an award.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a valid Office of Management and Budget OMB control number. The OMB control number for this collection is Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions.
Send comments regarding the burden estimate and any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to:. Suzanne H. See "Funding Guidelines" section. Reference is made to " Well-Established Alliances ".
These are alliances that have received continuous funding for 10 years or more. In addition to the required broadening participation research component, well-established alliances are now required to address the status of institutionalization and sustainability progress in proposal submissions and include plans to assess continuing institutionalization and sustainability.
Proposal submission for the BD Activity has changed. The next proposal submission deadline is November 5, The competition for BD support will be held every other year.
Proposers should note the following when preparing proposals: The program allows grantees to provide performance-based stipend support to participants. The program is not a financial aid scholarship program. Funds should not be used for this purpose.
Funds are provided to institutions and organizations only and not directly to students. Participants receiving direct stipend support must be U. Pre-college activities, other than summer bridge programs to community college or four-year institutions, are unallowable. Students designated as dual enrollees while matriculating at the high school level may not receive direct support from LSAMP projects. These students should not be targeted for recruitment. ALLIANCES: General Requirements Alliances may consist of different institutional types and are funded to implement comprehensive evidence-based strategies that ultimately result in the graduation of well-prepared, highly-qualified students from historically underrepresented minority groups in STEM disciplines who pursue graduate studies or careers in these fields.
STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliances SPIO For new and reconstituted alliances and alliances in existence for 10 consecutive years or less New alliances : Proposals for new alliances should also refer to the section on general alliance requirements. Guiding questions for the research component could include the following: What are the underlying issues affecting the differential participation and graduation rates in STEM undergraduate education of students historically underrepresented in STEM?
What replicable models of successful alliance strategies can be developed, described and adopted by other non-alliance institutions that serve students from historically underrepresented populations? Louis Stokes passed away in , leaving a great legacy and improving the lives of countless individuals.
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