Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Enriching Learning, Programs, and Student Experiences

Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for STEM Training Division of Undergraduate Training Division of Fairness for Excellence in STEM

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

June 04, 2024

Instructional Instrumentation (EI)

February 12, 2025

Second Wednesday in February, Yearly Thereafter

Implementation and Analysis Initiatives (IEP), Instructional Instrumentation (EI)

Vital Info And Revision Notes

Potential principal investigators are inspired to learn this solicitation fastidiously.
The HSI:ELPSE solicitation is part of the bigger Bettering Undergraduate STEM Training: Hispanic Serving Establishments program at NSF. The HSI program anticipates releasing a separate solicitation in Summer time 2024 that may supply further alternatives aligned with this system objectives. HSI:ELPSE and this forthcoming solicitation will change NSF 22-611 (Bettering Undergraduate STEM Training: Hispanic-Serving Establishments).

The Implementation and Analysis (IEP) Monitor has been revised and now has two ranges. IEP Degree 2 proposals have a number of required components past these for Degree 1 proposals, together with the necessity for a analysis plan and an in depth letter of assist from upper-level directors that addresses sustainability.

This solicitation features a new Instructional Instrumentation Monitor with a purpose to extend entry to the computing sources and/or laboratory instrumentation wanted to supply prime quality undergraduate training in STEM. Eligibility is restricted to Primarily Undergraduate Establishments and establishments in EPSCoR jurisdictions.

The HSI program accepts planning and convention proposals at any time. Potential PIs ought to contact an HSI program officer previous to submission to obtain vital suggestions and permission to submit as detailed within the NSF PAPPG. See Part II, Program Description, for added info.

The HSI program staff will host webinars through which key options and expectations of the S-STEM program will likely be mentioned. Info concerning the webinars will likely be posted to the HSI program webpage for this solicitation.

A person could also be listed as PI or co-PI on at most two HSI:ELPSE proposals per submission deadline.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation needs to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is repeatedly revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.

Abstract Of Program Necessities

Basic Info

Program Title:

Hispanic-Serving Establishments: Enriching Studying, Packages, and Pupil Experiences (HSI:ELPSE)

Synopsis of Program:

Hispanic Serving Establishments (HSIs) are an vital part of the nation’s increased training ecosystem and play a essential function in realizing the Nationwide Science Board’s imaginative and prescient for a extra various and succesful science and engineering workforce1,2. Aligned with this imaginative and prescient and the NSF Strategic Plan3, the objectives of the NSF HSI Program are to:

Improve the standard of undergraduate science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) training at HSIs.
Enhance the recruitment, retention, and commencement charges of scholars pursuing associates or baccalaureate levels in STEM at HSIs.

Assembly these objectives requires establishments to grasp and embrace their college students’ strengths, challenges, and lived experiences. Whereas this may occur in some ways and throughout many components of an establishment, the Hispanic Serving Establishments: Enriching Studying, Packages, and Pupil Experiences (HSI:ELPSE) solicitation is particularly targeted on learning and enhancing the scholar expertise within the following settings:

STEM programs, significantly for college kids pursuing STEM levels;
Certificates, minor, and/or diploma packages;
Educational departments or divisions; and
Faculties and schools that signify part of all the establishment (e.g., a College of Engineering or a Faculty of Pure Sciences).

Establishments are inspired to think about how their mission and designation as an HSI may re-imagine and/or strengthen programs, diploma packages, departments, or divisions. The HSI:ELPSE solicitation welcomes tasks that look to implement, take a look at and refine promising practices and/or conduct analysis associated to broadening participation or enhancing recruitment, retention, commencement and different optimistic outcomes for undergraduates in STEM.

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation helps tasks which might be purposefully designed to fulfill college students the place they’re, accounting for each their property and the challenges they could face. Identities and experiences should not decided solely by membership in a single monolithic inhabitants of scholars (e.g., Hispanic, first-generation, commuter, and so on.). Consequently, establishments are anticipated to make use of institutional information to determine fairness gaps, determine areas of want, and unpack the components that form college students’ particular person realities and shared experiences. Views gained from these information needs to be central to the design of the undertaking.

This solicitation consists of the next tracks:

Implementation and Analysis Initiatives (IEP): Ranges 1 and a pair of
Instructional Instrumentation (EI)

Please see under for particular details about every observe. Typically, proposals to the IEP observe will heart on a number of of the next: programs; curricular enhancements; pedagogy; assist constructions inside and out of doors of the classroom; diploma packages; and scholar pathways.

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation will even take into account proposals designed to extend entry to computing sources and/or laboratory instrumentation wanted to supply prime quality undergraduate STEM training at PUIs and establishments inside EPSCoR jurisdictions. Please see the dialogue of the Instructional Instrumentation Monitor under for particular particulars.

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

Please observe that the next info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Michael J. Ferrara, phone: (703) 292-2635, e-mail: [email protected]
Sonja Montas-Hunter, phone: (703) 292-7404, e-mail: [email protected]
James Alvarez, phone: (703) 292-2323, e-mail: [email protected]
Sonal S. Dekhane, phone: (703) 405-8977, e-mail: [email protected]
Elsa Gonzalez, phone: (703) 292-4690, e-mail: [email protected]
Julio G. Soto, phone: (703) 292-2973, e-mail: [email protected]

Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):

47.076 — STEM Training

Award Info

Anticipated Sort of Award: Commonplace Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 23 to 33

This system anticipates making:

7 – 9 Instructional Instrumentation awards

Undertaking size: As much as two years
Award Dimension: $200,000

10 – 14 IEP Degree 1 awards

Undertaking size: As much as three years
Award Dimension: $500,000

6 – 10 IEP Degree 2 awards

Undertaking size: As much as 5 years ;
Award Dimension: $1,000,000

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $19,000,000

Estimated program finances, variety of awards, and common award measurement/period are topic to the supply of funds.

Eligibility Info

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals could solely be submitted by the next:

To be eligible for funding within the IEP Monitor, an establishment should meet the next standards:

Be an accredited establishment of upper training.
Supply Undergraduate STEM academic packages that end in certificates or levels.
Fulfill the definition of an HSI as laid out in part 502 of the Greater Training Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a). Particularly, establishments will likely be required to submit an up to date eligibility letter from the U.S. Division of Training as a supplementary doc.
Be designated as an HSI by the U.S. Division of Training (https://www2.ed.gov/about/places of work/record/ope/idues/eligibility.html#suggestions) on the time of submission. Documentation from the Division of Training confirming HSI standing have to be submitted as a supplemental doc.

To be eligible for funding within the Instructional Instrumentation Monitor, the establishment should meet the three standards listed above on the time of submission and:

Be an eligible Primarily Undergraduate Establishment (PUI). Eligible PUIs are accredited schools and universities (together with two-year neighborhood schools) that award Associates levels, Bachelor’s levels, and/or Grasp’s levels in NSF-supported fields, however have awarded 20 or fewer Ph.D./D.Sci. levels in all NSF-supported fields throughout the mixed earlier two tutorial years; or
Be situated in an EPSCoR jurisdiction on the time of submission.

A present record of EPSCoR jurisdictions could be discovered right here: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/epscor/state-websites.

Who Might Function PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

Instructional Instrumentation Proposals: Eligible establishments could submit as much as two proposals per 12 months.

Implementation and Analysis Proposals: Eligible establishments could submit as much as a complete of three IEP proposals per solicitation deadline, no matter stage. An establishment could, for instance, submit three Degree 1 IEP proposals, or one Degree 1 IEP proposal and two Degree 2 IEP proposals in the identical deadline.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

A person could also be listed as PI or Co-PI on at most two proposals per submission deadline.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
Full Proposals:

B. Budgetary Info

Value Sharing Necessities:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.

Oblique Value (F&A) Limitations:

Not Relevant

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

C. Due Dates

Proposal Overview Info Standards

Benefit Overview Standards:

Nationwide Science Board accredited standards. Extra advantage evaluation standards apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Award Administration Info

Award Situations:

Extra award situations apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Reporting Necessities:

Extra reporting necessities apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Desk Of Contents

Abstract of Program Necessities

Introduction
Program Description
Award Info
Eligibility Info
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Info
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

NSF Proposal Processing and Overview Procedures
Benefit Overview Rules and Standards
Overview and Choice Course of

Award Administration Info
Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities

Company Contacts
Different Info
Appendix

I. Introduction

The Hispanic Serving Establishment (HSI) Program is supported by the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) as a cross-divisional effort with a number of funding alternatives that assist the nation’s schools which were designated as Hispanic Serving Establishments. This program is a part of a Basis-wide effort to speed up enhancements within the high quality and effectiveness of undergraduate training in all STEM fields together with the training, social, behavioral, and financial sciences. With Congressional assist, the NSF makes use of this program to construct capability at establishments of upper training that sometimes don’t obtain excessive ranges of NSF grant funding.

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation helps the 2 objectives shared amongst all present and former funding alternatives within the NSF HSI Program:

Improve the standard of undergraduate science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) training at HSIs.
Enhance the recruitment, retention, and commencement charges of scholars pursuing associates or baccalaureate levels in STEM at HSIs.

The HSI designation comes from a set of standards employed by the US Division of Education4. Past these quantitative standards, nevertheless, HSIs signify a various assortment of establishments that serve college students with many intersecting traits. The HSI program celebrates the capability for HSI-educated people to convey their experiences to scientific and societal issues and develop distinctive concepts, strategies, and potential solutions5.

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation welcomes proposals from the breadth of two- and four-year Hispanic Serving Establishments throughout the nation6. Inside every HSI’s distinctive context, the HSI:ELPSE solicitation encourages establishments to undertake and operationalize student-centered frameworks and work to make sure that the establishment is satisfactorily ready to serve their college students.

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation seeks to construct upon the organizational capability of HSIs to assist actions that meet the objectives of the HSI program and show potential to broaden participation in STEM disciplines. To this finish, the solicitation and the tracks mentioned under replicate two core ideas.

Every HSI is exclusive. Pupil outcomes are intricately related to every establishment’s strengths and challenges, formed by native contexts, guided by daring leaders, and inclusive of a fancy set of stakeholders.
Enriching the scholar expertise in a method that helps scholar studying and optimistic outcomes requires establishments to maneuver past monolithic demographic descriptors and look at the intersecting traits and lived realities that may be utilized to college students as people and in teams.

Ideally, profitable tasks will permit establishments to maneuver in the direction of and/or maintain a inhabitants of STEM college students with traits, enrollment patterns, and outcomes that align with these for the whole thing of the scholar physique. Assembly these objectives could require establishments to transcend solely sorting college students into coarse demographic teams as they look at whether or not their practices and insurance policies absolutely handle the wants of their college students.

Every particular person scholar has an identification that displays a number of distinct traits reminiscent of first-generation standing, gender, ethnicity, tutorial main, race, monetary want, and lots of others. All HSI:ELPSE proposals needs to be designed with an intersectional lens that acknowledges and accounts for the intersection of scholar traits and experiences.

Using an intersectional lens is supposed to strengthen proposals’ efforts to focus authentically on college students’ property and desires. For example, establishments with a excessive proportion of commuter college students ought to fastidiously take into account how college students’ time on campus would possibly influence the scheduling and supply of sure undertaking elements. As one other instance, if a undertaking plans to supply undergraduate analysis or different experiential studying alternatives, then consideration needs to be given for the inclusion of stipends to permit working college students to take part with out sacrificing revenue that could possibly be vital for fundamental wants or academic bills.

II. Program Description

Overview

The HSI:ELPSE solicitation is particularly targeted on learning and enhancing scholar experiences and outcomes within the following settings:

STEM programs, significantly for college kids pursuing STEM levels;
Certificates, minor, and/or diploma packages;
Educational departments or divisions; and
Faculties and schools that signify part of all the establishment (e.g., a College of Engineering or a Faculty of Pure Sciences).

Topic to the precise necessities of every observe detailed under, the HSI:ELPSE solicitation welcomes proposals aligned with one or each of the next areas:

Programs, Curricula, and Pedagogy: Efforts which have a direct influence on college students’ classroom experiences and development by way of diploma packages. These tasks would possibly heart on improvements in a number of of the next areas: particular programs; majors, minors or certificates packages; non-majors STEM programs; full- and part-time school pedagogy; course-based undergraduate analysis or internship alternatives; or tutorial helps inside or exterior of the classroom.

Institutional Constructions and Pathways: Efforts that research and/or enhance techniques and alternatives that transcend college students’ direct experiences of their programs and diploma packages. Initiatives of this sort would possibly heart on improvements in a number of of the next: 2-year to 4-year switch pathways; dual-enrollment or dual-degree packages; tutorial advising; school or employees skilled growth; progress in the direction of being Hispanic-serving; preparation for graduate research or the STEM workforce; department-, division-, or college-based undergraduate analysis and internship packages.; Initiatives with a concentrate on this theme ought to make use of disaggregated institutional information to assist the necessity of the undertaking and contextualize the proposed undertaking’s goals and actions.

The examples offered don’t by any means represent an exhaustive record, and proposers are inspired to discover any components that influence outcomes for undergraduate STEM college students at their establishment.

Undertaking Tracks

This solicitation accepts proposals in two tasks tracks. Extra alternatives for planning and convention proposals are additionally mentioned under.

Implementation and Analysis Initiatives (IEP) Monitor

The observe welcomes tasks trying to implement, adapt, or research promising practices and likewise invitations theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous analysis tasks on undergraduate experiences in STEM at HSIs. IEP tasks embrace actions which might be anticipated to assist analysis and efforts to enhance the HSI undergraduate expertise for STEM majors and for non-majors enrolled in STEM programs.

Examples embrace, however should not restricted to, the next kinds of actions:

redesigning STEM programs, diploma packages, scholar assist techniques, or practices;
creating new STEM programs, certificates, minors and diploma packages;
enacting skilled growth for school, employees, and directors to implement student-centered pedagogy, advising, management or different practices;
conducting analysis research to higher perceive elements of undergraduates’ STEM experiences within the focal areas of the HSI:ELPSE solicitation (programs, packages, departments, and colleges/schools);
creating establishments’ understanding of their college students, practices, and HSI designation, significantly establishments which were just lately categorized as HSIs; and
constructing out the information infrastructure and methodologies that will permit an establishment to gather and conduct thorough analyses of scholar information.

Proposals can concentrate on enhancing scholar studying and outcomes, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented scholar teams in STEM at HSIs, or different efforts aligned with the HSI:ELPSE solicitation’s areas of focus. The IEP observe is meant to be a broad alternative, and encourages the submission of high-risk, excessive reward approaches with transformative potential.

Widespread Expectations for Degree 1 and Degree 2 IEP Initiatives: There are two funding ranges that decide the utmost finances, timeline, and scope for the proposed tasks. The next components are anticipated inside all IEP proposals, no matter funding stage:

Proposals are anticipated to handle no less than one of many objectives of the HSI program and be aligned with a number of of the areas described above: Programs, Curricula, and Pedagogy; or Institutional Constructions and Pathways.
Proposals needs to be evidence-based, which may embrace indigenous data and different traditions which may be transmitted exterior of the standard scholarly literature. Undertaking elements needs to be supported as acceptable by a evaluation of the related literature.
Proposals needs to be located within the context of the establishment and should embrace an Institutional Information Narrative as a part of the proposal’s 15-page Undertaking Description that makes use of information, disaggregated to the extent that’s possible for proposers,to supply insights into the establishment and its college students.
Actions, helps, analysis and, if required, analysis plans have to be designed utilizing an intersectional lens. Particularly, proposers are inspired to debate how the undertaking elements account for college kids’ intersecting membership in populations described by demographic traits and/or lived experiences (e.g., low-income, commuter, parenting, first-generation, or veteran standing).
Collaborative proposals from both single or a number of establishments should use a portion of the Administration Plan to explain the roles of all senior personnel in addition to the character of the collaboration between establishments. It’s crucial that every one collaborating establishments have a transparent and acceptable voice within the management and execution of the undertaking because it applies to their college students.
All IEP proposals should embrace an in depth analysis plan, executed by an skilled and unbiased evaluator, that may present each formative and summative suggestions on the undertaking’s progress in the direction of its said objectives. Every analysis plan ought to embrace clear analysis questions, quantitative and/or qualitative information streams past baseline institutional analysis information, specified strategies for information evaluation, and a mechanism for offering a written analysis report back to the undertaking staff no less than yearly. Please see “Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions” under for added details about the expectations for undertaking analysis.
All IEP proposals that plan to financially assist undergraduate or graduate college students, as an illustration as tutors, peer mentors, analysis assistants, or different trainees should embrace a scholar mentoring plan of most 1 web page as a supplemental doc. This doc ought to focus on particular methods that will likely be utilized to supply tutorial, skilled, and different beneficial kinds of mentoring to those college students. A scholar mentoring plan is just not required if a undertaking solely intends to supply incentives to college students serving as analysis topics with out further coaching necessities or duties.

Proposals could contain single operational items or departments of a school or a number of disciplines inside a single division, faculty, or school on the establishment. Collaborative proposals from a number of establishments or organizations are additionally welcome. Please see the Proposal Preparation Part under for added pointers concerning the submission of a whole proposal.

IEP Degree 1: As much as 3 Years with a most finances of $500,000.

Awards at this stage will assist early-stage or exploratory tasks that look to complement the scholar expertise, enhance instructing and studying, broaden participation in undergraduate STEM, or enhance scholar outcomes at HSIs. Whereas IEP Degree 1 proposals needs to be evidence-based as mentioned above, they could be extra exploratory and would usually be of a smaller scale than IEP Degree 2 proposals.

The core actions of Degree 1 tasks could also be wholly novel or could heart on the replication and validation of promising approaches or excessive influence practices which may be novel on the establishment. Whereas STEM training or broadening participation analysis plans are welcome in Degree 1 IEP proposals, they aren’t required. Nevertheless, within the absence of a analysis plan, proposals should describe a plan to generate data by way of the evaluation and broad dissemination of knowledge and outcomes obtained by way of undertaking analysis.

Degree 1 IEP proposals are welcome to submit letters of collaboration from inside or exterior companions together with school, directors, companies, non-profits or different entities as acceptable. These letters ought to adhere to the rules outlined in Chapter II.D.2.i.(iv) of the NSF PAPPG and shouldn’t be letters of assist as described in that part.

IEP Degree 2: As much as 5 Years with a most finances of $1,000,000

IEP Degree 2 tasks are supported for as much as 5 years and may embrace efforts which might be past the proof-of-concept stage and have potential to end in sustainable optimistic outcomes that align with the objectives of the HSI program. Degree 2 tasks have a scale and scope past what would sometimes be anticipated for IEP Degree 1 tasks.

Degree 2 tasks should embrace substantial academic analysis plans supposed to generate new data which will enhance our understanding of tips on how to construct institutional capability at HSIs, to fulfill the objectives of enhancing the standard of undergraduate scholar experiences in STEM, and/or enhancing the recruitment, retention, and commencement charges of scholars pursuing STEM levels at HSIs. Analysis plans ought to embrace particular and actionable analysis questions, be theoretically grounded, and draw from information streams that look past these conventional institutional analysis measures. The HSI program has no methodological desire and welcomes qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research as acceptable given the foci of every proposed research.

Particular plans to maintain and institutionalize profitable undertaking elements needs to be included as a part of the Undertaking Description. All IEP Degree 2 proposals should embrace letters of assist from upper-level institutional directors, on the Dean stage or increased, with accountability for school affairs and/or undergraduate STEM training within the proposal’s focal unit(s). These letters ought to define concrete mechanisms and institutional commitments for institutionalization and sustainability of the undertaking actions and needs to be uploaded as supplemental paperwork.

Degree 2 IEP proposals are welcome to submit further letters of collaboration from inside or exterior companions together with school, directors, companies, non-profits or different entities as acceptable. These letters ought to adhere to the rules outlined in Chapter II.D.2.i.(iv) of the NSF PAPPG and shouldn’t be letters of assist as described in that part.

Instructional Instrumentation (EI) Monitor: As much as 2 years with a most finances of $200,000.

The purpose of the Instructional Instrumentation (EI) Monitor is to extend entry to the computing sources and/or laboratory instrumentation wanted to supply prime quality undergraduate training in STEM. The EI observe welcomes proposals centered on instrumentation to enhance academic experiences and outcomes in any STEM self-discipline represented throughout NSF’s Directorates and Divisions.

Eligibility: The EI observe is open to all HSIs in EPSCoR jurisdictions and to HSI Primarily Undergraduate Establishments (PUIs) in all different (non-EPSCoR) jurisdictions. Eligible PUIs are accredited schools and universities (together with two-year neighborhood schools) that award affiliate levels, bachelor’s levels, and/or grasp’s levels in NSF-supported fields however have awarded 20 or fewer Ph.D./D.Sci. levels throughout all NSF-supported fields throughout the mixed earlier two tutorial years.

Establishments could submit at most two EI proposals every year.

Focus: All proposals to the EI observe needs to be to assist instrumentation and/or computing sources used primarily for undergraduate STEM programs. Examples embrace, however should not restricted to:

Instrumentation for use by majors and non-majors engaged in conventional laboratory instruction, course-based undergraduate analysis experiences, or different actions occurring inside a number of STEM programs on the proposing establishment.
{Hardware} for use in pc laboratories particularly devoted to college students in a number of STEM diploma packages. The requested gear ought to assist particular programs however may additionally be utilized by majors engaged in undergraduate analysis, internships, cooperative studying or different experiential alternatives.

As famous within the PAPPG, the acquisition price of apparatus consists of modifications, attachments, and equipment essential to make an merchandise of apparatus usable for the aim for which will probably be bought.

The undertaking description for EI proposals is restricted to 6 (6) pages and may handle how the requested gear will influence recruitment, retention, commencement and different optimistic outcomes for undergraduate STEM college students. This could, at a minimal, embrace the next:

a dialogue of the necessity for the requested gear;
a dialogue of how college students would profit from the requested gear, together with the estimated variety of college students that will instantly profit every year over no less than a two-year interval;
an outline of the programs, diploma packages, and different alternatives impacted;
plans for upkeep and procurement of vital consumables as wanted;
plans for school, employees, or scholar coaching as vital; and
a dialogue of how the undertaking staff will assess progress, doc outcomes, and consider success in attaining undertaking objectives.

Restrictions: The EI observe is not going to assist proposals that embrace the next:

Instrumentation and/or computing services supposed primarily to assist undergraduate analysis experiences in particular investigators’ labs.
Sustaining infrastructure and/or constructing techniques. This class consists of (however is just not restricted to) the set up of or upgrades to infrastructure associated to the provision of energy, air flow, water or analysis gases, routine multi-purpose pc networks, normal security options, and different general-purpose techniques (e.g., poisonous waste removing techniques and telecommunications gear).
Development, renovation, or modernization of rooms, buildings, or analysis services. This class refers to any house the place academic actions happen, whether or not “bricks-and-mortar”, cell, or digital.
Basic goal pc labs, software program, or associated requests that aren’t primarily devoted to undergraduate STEM programs, no matter their use by majors or non-majors.

Proposals looking for assist for the above objects or actions are topic to return with out evaluation (if noncompliance is established previous to evaluation) or decline (if noncompliance is established throughout the advantage evaluation course of).

Finances Tips for EI Proposals: The next pointers are in impact for EI proposals.

At most 10% of the proposal finances, together with oblique prices, could also be dedicated to coaching actions for school or employees chargeable for the use and upkeep of the requested gear. Such requests needs to be fastidiously justified, and generally ought to solely be made if there may be particular, demonstrable want and no comparable gear is already in use on the establishment. Wage assist, together with fringe advantages and oblique prices, could solely be requested for people offering such coaching and would contribute to the ten% most. Journey prices related to coaching for operations and upkeep could also be an eligible expense however should even be well-justified.
Obligatory software program and a restricted provide of important consumables could also be requested and needs to be fastidiously justified. EI funds might not be used for paper, ink, or different consumable supplies vital for printing or common use of normal computing sources.

Extra Alternatives

Planning Proposals: The HSI:ELPSE solicitation welcomes planning proposals at any time to develop, set up, and/or strengthen key information, human, and academic sources. Proposers ought to check with Chapter II.F.1 of the NSF PAPPG for particular finances and proposal preparation pointers regarding planning proposals and may observe the goal dates offered for this mechanism. As detailed within the PAPPG, PIs should contact a program director on the HSI:ELPSE solicitation to debate their proposal thought and decide if a planning grant is acceptable. Moreover, written permission to submit a planning proposal have to be obtained from an HSI program director and uploaded on the time of submission.

Planning proposals can concentrate on the event of a future submission to the IEP observe or could be centered on institutional efforts to higher serve their undergraduate STEM college students. Examples of planning proposals embrace, however should not restricted to the next:

figuring out or creating fashions, frameworks, analysis or analysis designs central to the event of a robust future submission to the HSI:ELPSE solicitation;
creating or revising strategic plans for STEM training that leverage student-centered frameworks and practices;
strengthening collaborations amongst school, administration, and employees in STEM departments, divisions, colleges, or schools;
strengthening collaborations amongst establishments of upper training, together with two-year schools and rural establishments;
establishing partnerships with trade and/or neighborhood organizations;
piloting techniques and approaches to gather, set up, and analyze scholar information;
providing management coaching, substantial retreats, or different mechanisms permitting directors or a number of items throughout the establishment to discover student-centered practices.

Workshops and Conferences: Proposals for workshops and conferences addressing matters that contribute to the objectives of the HSI Program could also be submitted at any time following session with an HSI Program Officer. Proposals for conferences that search to handle essential challenges in undergraduate STEM training at HSIs, together with points associated to recruitment, retention, completion, and switch are significantly inspired. Non-profit organizations and different establishments that aren’t HSIs are eligible to submit convention proposals. These establishments could embrace, however should not restricted to Ok-12 colleges, community-based organizations, {and professional} organizations which might be working to assist the objectives of the HSI program. Info concerning the preparation of a Convention proposal could be discovered within the PAPPG Chapter II.F.9.

III. Award Info

Anticipated Sort of Award: Persevering with Grant or Commonplace Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 23 to 33

This system anticipates making:

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $19,000,000

Estimated program finances, variety of awards, and common award measurement/period are topic to the supply of funds.

IV. Eligibility Info

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals could solely be submitted by the next:

To be eligible for funding within the IEP Monitor, an establishment should meet the next standards:

Be an accredited establishment of upper training.
Supply Undergraduate STEM academic packages that end in certificates or levels.
Fulfill the definition of an HSI as laid out in part 502 of the Greater Training Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a). Particularly, establishments will likely be required to submit an up to date eligibility letter from the U.S. Division of Training as a supplementary doc.
Be designated as an HSI by the U.S. Division of Training (https://www2.ed.gov/about/places of work/record/ope/idues/eligibility.html#suggestions) on the time of submission. Documentation from the Division of Training confirming HSI standing have to be submitted as a supplemental doc.

To be eligible for funding within the Instructional Instrumentation Monitor, the establishment should meet the three standards listed above on the time of submission and:

Be an eligible Primarily Undergraduate Establishment (PUI). Eligible PUIs are accredited schools and universities (together with two-year neighborhood schools) that award Associates levels, Bachelor’s levels, and/or Grasp’s levels in NSF-supported fields, however have awarded 20 or fewer Ph.D./D.Sci. levels in all NSF-supported fields throughout the mixed earlier two tutorial years; or
Be situated in an EPSCoR jurisdiction on the time of submission.

A present record of EPSCoR jurisdictions could be discovered right here: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/epscor/state-websites

Who Might Function PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

Instructional Instrumentation Proposals: Eligible establishments could submit as much as two proposals per 12 months.

Implementation and Analysis Proposals: Eligible establishments could submit as much as a complete of three IEP proposals per solicitation deadline, no matter stage. An establishment could, for instance, submit three Degree 1 IEP proposals, or one Degree 1 IEP proposal and two Degree 2 IEP proposals in the identical deadline.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

A person could also be listed as PI or Co-PI on at most two proposals per submission deadline.

V. Proposal Preparation And Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers could decide to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation by way of Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.

Full Proposals submitted by way of Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the overall pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The entire textual content of the PAPPG is out there electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted by way of Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation by way of Grants.gov needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Purposes by way of Grants.gov. The entire textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information is out there on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Utility Information and Utility Types Bundle, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov web site, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Utility Bundle and Utility Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Bundle button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Utility Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

In figuring out which methodology to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please observe the next:

Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations have to be submitted by way of Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 supplies further info on collaborative proposals.

See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steerage on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please observe that the proposal preparation directions offered on this program solicitation could deviate from the PAPPG directions.

The next directions complement steerage within the PAPPG:

Undertaking Information Kind: A Undertaking Information Kind have to be submitted as a part of all proposals. The data on this kind is used to direct proposals to acceptable reviewers and to find out the traits of tasks supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Training (DUE). In Analysis.gov, this kind will seem as a required part of the proposal solely after the HSI:ELPSE solicitation quantity has been chosen in Step 1 of the Proposal Creation Wizard. Grants.gov customers ought to check with Part VI.5.2. of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information for particular directions on tips on how to submit the DUE Undertaking Information Kind.

Cowl Sheet: Overview the laws concerning Human Topics (Analysis Involving Human Topics). Please observe that Human Topics laws additionally govern actions that must do with safeguarding individually identifiable info reminiscent of scholar and college surveys and information. Due to this fact, tasks submitted to this program could should be reviewed by the Human Topics Institutional Overview Board (IRB) for the establishment. If the undertaking will likely be IRB reviewed, please point out on the quilt sheet that the evaluation is pending. If the proposal has already been IRB reviewed and located to be exempt, please point out so on the quilt sheet and embrace the Exemption Quantity. If the IRB has already given approval of the actions embrace a letter from the IRB as a Supplementary Doc and point out the IRB Approval Date on the quilt sheet. Please observe that an award can’t be made except the IRB course of has been accomplished and documentation has been obtained by this system director previous to recommending the award.

Undertaking Abstract: Every proposal should have a abstract of the proposed undertaking of not a couple of web page in size. The Undertaking Abstract needs to be informative and comprehensible to a spread of practitioners/instructors, researchers, evaluators, fairness consultants, and scientific consultants working within the STEM Training area. The Undertaking Abstract ought to include every of the next three sections.

Overview: Describe the main target of the proposed undertaking, the sorts of actions to be undertaken, and an announcement of the targets and approaches/strategies to be employed.
Mental Benefit: Describe the potential for the undertaking to advance data by way of apply or analysis.
Broader Impacts: Describe the potential of the proposed exercise to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.

Undertaking Description: The undertaking description ought to observe the necessities outlined within the NSF PAPPG and this solicitation. Particular pointers for every undertaking observe seem subsequent.

Undertaking Descriptions for IEP Proposals: The undertaking description for IEP proposals is restricted to fifteen single-spaced pages. The Undertaking Description should clarify the undertaking’s motivating rationale, objectives, targets, deliverables, and describe how they handle the objectives of the HSI program. The next sections have to be included within the 15-page undertaking description with a daring heading.

Outcomes from Prior NSF Help: If relevant the Undertaking Description should embrace a bit on outcomes from prior NSF assist. This should embrace assist for tasks pertaining to the proposed undertaking that the PI or any of the co-PIs have been concerned with (together with sub-awards from NSF supported tasks). This part needs to be aligned with the necessities given within the NSF PAPPG and include particular outcomes and outcomes to show the influence of the undertaking. If the undertaking staff has had no prior assist pertaining to the brand new proposal, this needs to be said within the proposal. It isn’t required to have prior assist to achieve success within the HSI program.
Undertaking Rationale, Significance and Aims: The proposal ought to include particular targets that handle the objectives of the HSI program. The undertaking rationale ought to construct a compelling case for the proposed work, its strategy, and the way the work will advance data concerning STEM training at HSIs. Proposals are anticipated to construct on prior elementary and/or utilized analysis in STEM training or present theoretical and empirical justification for the proposed undertaking as wanted. Justification could also be achieved by way of a mix of related literature, institutional information, and summaries of outcomes from prior work.
Broader Impacts: Please observe that per steerage in Chapter II of the NSF PAPPG, the Undertaking Description should include a separate part throughout the narrative labeled “Broader Impacts.” This part ought to present a dialogue of the Broader Impacts of the proposed actions. Proposers could determine the place to incorporate this part throughout the Undertaking Description.
Institutional Information Narrative: All IEP proposals should embrace an Institutional Information Narrative as a part of the Undertaking Description to show the necessity for and potential advantages of the undertaking. Proposers are inspired to make acceptable use of disaggregated information in an effort to look at the intersectional identities of their college students. This information could use any metrics which might be acceptable for the undertaking and could also be tabular, graphical, or narrative in nature.
Dedication and Sustainability: All IEP proposals should doc an institutional dedication to faithfully perform the undertaking. All proposals should show an institutional dedication to construct upon or maintain any profitable outcomes of the undertaking past the funding interval.
Data Era: All IEPproposals should clearly describe efforts to generate data by way of evaluation, analysis, and/or analysis. Initiatives have to be located within the current apply, literature, and concept within the context of STEM training at an HSI and handle questions of significance to those that work in and assist HSIs. Assessing influence of efforts as a part of data era could also be carried out by the PI and co-PIs or in partnership with an training researcher, evaluator, institutional analysis places of work or different colleagues with measurement experience.
Undertaking Analysis: All IEP proposals should embrace an in depth analysis plan, executed by an skilled and unbiased evaluator, that may present each formative and summative suggestions on the undertaking’s progress in the direction of its said objectives. Analysis plans for IEP proposals ought to: (1) describe the elements of the proposed undertaking to be evaluated, (2) show the alignment between undertaking actions and analysis efforts, and (3) present the design of the analysis plan, together with mechanisms for formative analysis. Moreover, analysis plans for IEP proposals ought to embrace clear analysis questions, quantitative and/or qualitative information streams past baseline institutional analysis information, specified strategies for information evaluation, and a mechanism for offering a written analysis report back to the undertaking staff no less than yearly. The chosen undertaking evaluator needs to be unbiased from the undertaking staff however could also be a person from the identical establishment who has experience in analysis and evaluation. If the submitting group requires exterior analysis consultants to be chosen by way of a aggressive bid course of after an award is made, the proposer ought to point out the coverage and describe the plans to pick out and collaborate with the evaluator as soon as an award is made. Proposals and not using a named evaluator on account of such a restriction ought to nonetheless embrace an analysis plan reflecting the steerage offered above.
Undertaking Administration Plan: All proposals ought to embrace a undertaking administration plan indicating the roles and obligations of anybody serving as PI, co-PI, or senior personnel on the proposed undertaking. Multi-institutional proposals together with subawards ought to describe how undertaking administration obligations will likely be distributed throughout establishments as acceptable. The outline offered ought to allow reviewers to evaluate the alignment of the staff’s expertise {and professional} capabilities which might be related to the proposed undertaking. The undertaking administration plan might also describe different contributors as acceptable for the undertaking, together with STEM professionals, collaborators, researchers, advisory board members, evaluators, consultants, and contractors.
Dissemination Plan: All IEP tasks should embrace a plan to disseminate undertaking outcomes to stakeholders and members of the HSI neighborhood. Modern approaches past publications and convention shows that may strategically have interaction particular or broad audiences are inspired.

Undertaking Descriptions for EI Proposals: The undertaking description for EI proposals is restricted to 6 (6) pages and may handle how the requested gear will influence recruitment, retention, commencement and different optimistic outcomes for undergraduate STEM college students. Different elements of an Tools Proposal are famous within the PAPPG Chapter II.F.10. This could, at a minimal, embrace the next:

The next sections as described above have to be included within the 6-page undertaking description with a daring heading:

Outcomes from Prior NSF Help
Broader Impacts
Undertaking Administration Plan
Dedication and Sustainability

References Cited: A References Cited part have to be included. Literature cited ought to particularly relate to the proposed undertaking, and the Undertaking Description ought to clarify how every reference has performed a task within the motivation for or design of the undertaking. References may draw from the literature on broadening participation, discipline-based training analysis, STEM instructing and studying, or increased training as acceptable for the precise goals of the undertaking. If no references are cited, the part ought to state that no references have been cited.

Amenities, Tools & Different Sources: See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.g.

Senior Personnel Paperwork: The next paperwork are required:

Biographical Sketches: In accordance with the steerage contained within the PAPPG, a separate biographical sketch have to be offered for every particular person designated as senior personnel on the undertaking.
Present and Pending (Different) Help: In accordance with the steerage contained within the PAPPG, present and pending assist info have to be individually have to be offered for every particular person designated as senior personnel on the undertaking.
Collaborators and Different Affiliations (COA) Info: In accordance with the steerage contained within the PAPPG, COA info have to be individually offered for every particular person designated as senior personnel on the undertaking.

Information Administration and Sharing Plan: Proposers ought to present an in depth information administration and sharing plan. Transparency requires that the Federal companies share how they’re maximizing outcomes of Federal STEM investments and actions and making certain broad profit to the general public. Proposers are extremely inspired to evaluation Directorate-specific information administration and sharing plan steerage, which could be accessed at https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/dmpdocs/ehr.pdf.

Mentoring Plan (if relevant): Required when funding is requested to assist postdoctoral students or graduate college students. See PAPPG Chapter II for directions for the preparation of this merchandise.

Particular Info and Supplementary Paperwork: Please check with the PAPPG Chapter II for added steerage on Supplementary Paperwork. There’s a distinction between supplementary paperwork and an appendix. Paperwork exterior of what’s described under could also be interpreted as an appendix and may end up in the proposal being returned with out evaluation.

Letters of Collaboration: Proposals are inspired to incorporate letters of collaboration from inside and exterior companions and undertaking contributors exterior of the undertaking PIs and co-PIs. The format of those letters ought to carefully align with the advised language offered within the PAPPG.
Letters of Help from Key Directors (IEP Degree 2 Initiatives Solely): All IEP Degree 2 proposals should embrace letters of assist from upper-level institutional directors, on the stage of Dean or increased, with accountability for educational affairs and/or undergraduate STEM training within the proposal’s focal unit(s). These letters ought to define concrete mechanisms for institutionalization and sustainability of the undertaking actions and needs to be uploaded as supplemental paperwork.
Biographical Sketch of the Exterior Evaluator: If an evaluator is called within the proposal, then a biographical sketch could be included as a supplementary doc. This should observe the NSF format for biosketches and should not be a resume, CV, or quote for providers.
Letter of Eligibility: The Establishments submitting an IEP or EI proposal to the HSI:ELPSE program have to be a Hispanic Serving Establishment as outlined by regulation in Part 502 of the Greater Training Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a). A replica of the latest Letter of Eligibility from the Division of Training have to be included as a supplementary doc. For collaborative proposals from a number of establishments, every submitting establishment have to be a Hispanic Serving Establishment and submit an Eligibility Letter. For collaborative proposals from a single establishment, an Eligibility Letter is required solely from the lead establishment.
Pupil Mentoring Plan: All IEP proposals that plan to financially assist undergraduate or graduate college students, as an illustration as tutors, peer mentors, analysis assistants, or different trainees should embrace a scholar mentoring plan of most 1 web page as a supplemental doc. This doc ought to focus on particular methods that will likely be utilized to supply tutorial, skilled, and different beneficial kinds of mentoring to those college students. A scholar mentoring plan is just not required if a undertaking solely intends to supply incentives to college students serving as analysis topics with out further coaching necessities or duties.

Word for Planning and Convention Proposals: Please observe that every one planning and convention proposal submissions ought to adhere to the related pointers, together with restrictions on the size of the Undertaking Description, given within the PAPPG. See Part II, Program Description, for added info.

B. Budgetary Info

Value Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Collaborative Funding for non-HSIs:

The HSI:ELPSE ;solicitation welcomes collaborative proposals. If collaboration entails non-lead establishments that aren’t HSIs, they have to be included as a subaward (PAPPG Chapter II.E.3.a). Collaborative proposals involving non-HSIs should not be submitted as Collaborative Proposals from A number of Establishments (PAPPG Chapter II.E.3.b).

HSI:ELPSE undertaking funds might not be used for:

Pupil scholarships (please see the S-STEM, SFS, or Robert Noyce Trainer Scholarship packages for scholarships for college kids).
Tools or instrumentation that doesn’t considerably enhance educational functionality
Instructing aids (e.g., movies, slides, projectors, “drill and apply” software program).
Autos, trailers, laboratory furnishings, or basic utility objects reminiscent of workplace gear, benches, tables, desks, chairs, storage circumstances, and routine provides.
Upkeep gear and upkeep or service contracts.
Modification, development, or furnishing of laboratories or different buildings.
Set up of apparatus or instrumentation (as distinct from the on-site meeting of multi-component instruments–which is an allowable cost).

In accordance with 2 CFR § 200.413, the salaries of administrative and clerical employees ought to usually be handled as oblique prices (F&A). Direct charging of those prices could also be acceptable provided that all of the situations laid out in 2 CFR § 200.413 are met.

Finances Preparation Directions:

Budgetary Info: Budgets and finances justifications submitted to this solicitation ought to replicate an equitable distribution of funds based mostly on the proposed scope of the undertaking. All finances requests have to be per the proposed scope and period of the undertaking in its observe and can’t exceed the utmost permitted in its observe. Proposers to the HSI:ELPSE solicitation ought to present a finances for every year of assist requested. The next further necessities additionally apply:

Required Journey for PI Assembly: All proposals ought to finances for representatives of the undertaking’s PI staff to attend biannual HSI program PI assembly all through the lifetime of the undertaking. Collaborative proposals ought to embrace funds for no less than one staff member from every collaborating establishment to take part in these conferences.
Pupil Monetary Help: Monetary assist, reminiscent of salaries and stipends, could also be offered to scholar contributors within the HSI:ELPSE solicitation. Monetary assist, nevertheless, could solely be offered to college students who’re U.S. residents, nationals, or everlasting residents.
Skilled Growth Help: In proposals that contain skilled growth workshops, cheap journey and subsistence prices (lodging and meals) throughout the workshop could also be included within the undertaking finances. Funds may additionally be requested for an affordable stipend for contributors. These funds needs to be described within the finances justification.
Analysis: All IEP proposal budgets should embrace funds for undertaking analysis commensurate with the work described within the analysis plan. Planning proposals may additionally embrace funds for analysis as wanted. Establishments that require a aggressive bid course of for exterior evaluators ought to point out the requirement within the undertaking description, significantly if that requirement precludes naming a selected evaluator within the submission.

Finances Tips for EI Proposals: The next pointers are in impact for EI proposals.

C. Due Dates

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted By way of Analysis.gov:

To organize and submit a proposal by way of Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions accessible at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov consumer assist, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions basic technical questions associated to the usage of the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.

For Proposals Submitted By way of Grants.gov:

Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is out there on the Grants.gov Applicant Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) supplies directions concerning the technical preparation of proposals by way of Grants.gov. For Grants.gov consumer assist, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by e-mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions basic technical questions associated to the usage of Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.

Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Licensed Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the appliance to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the appliance is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the appliance to Grants.gov. The finished software will likely be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.

The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page supplies submission steerage to candidates and hyperlinks to useful sources together with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Regularly Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should go all NSF pre-check and post-check validations in an effort to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.

When submitting by way of Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission no less than 5 enterprise days upfront of a deadline to permit sufficient time to handle NSF compliance errors and resubmissions by 5:00 p.m. submitting group’s native time on the deadline. Please observe that some errors can’t be corrected in Grants.gov. As soon as a proposal passes pre-checks however fails any post-check, an applicant can solely right and submit the in-progress proposal in Analysis.gov.

Proposers that submitted by way of Analysis.gov could use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted by way of Grants.gov, till an software has been obtained and validated by NSF, the Licensed Organizational Consultant could verify the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have obtained an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov needs to be used to verify the standing of an software.

VI. NSF Proposal Processing And Overview Procedures

Proposals obtained by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for evaluation. All proposals are fastidiously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and normally by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re consultants within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the evaluation course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they consider are particularly effectively certified to evaluation the proposal and/or individuals they would like not evaluation the proposal. These strategies could function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, is non-obligatory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers don’t have any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers could get hold of feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending ultimate motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional evaluation suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts all the NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.

A complete description of the Basis’s advantage evaluation course of is out there on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers must also concentrate on core methods which might be important to the achievement of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Growth and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026. These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal evaluation is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by way of the combination of analysis and training and broadening participation in NSF packages, tasks, and actions.

One of many strategic targets in assist of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and training by way of the packages, tasks, and actions it helps at tutorial and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, prepare, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to supply cutting-edge analysis beneath the steerage of the Nation’s most artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps growth of a robust science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM instructing and studying.

NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which might be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is important to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of variety and deems it central to the packages, tasks, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Benefit Overview Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to put money into a strong and various portfolio of tasks that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and training. To determine which tasks to assist, NSF depends on a advantage evaluation course of that comes with consideration of each the technical elements of a proposed undertaking and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear advantage evaluation course of for the collection of tasks.

1. Benefit Overview Rules

These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when getting ready proposals and managing tasks, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not suggest proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. Provided that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in fundamental analysis and training, the next three ideas apply:

All NSF tasks needs to be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not remodel, the frontiers of information.
NSF tasks, within the mixture, ought to contribute extra broadly to attaining societal objectives. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by way of the analysis itself, by way of actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis tasks, or by way of actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the undertaking. The undertaking actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or modern strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded tasks needs to be based mostly on acceptable metrics, maintaining in thoughts the probably correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources offered to implement tasks. If the scale of the exercise is restricted, analysis of that exercise in isolation is just not prone to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions could greatest be achieved at a better, extra aggregated, stage than the person undertaking.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific tasks is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded undertaking. Thus, particular person tasks ought to embrace clearly said objectives, particular descriptions of the actions that the PI intends to do, and a plan in place to doc the outputs of these actions.

These three advantage evaluation ideas present the idea for the advantage evaluation standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.

2. Benefit Overview Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by way of use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accredited advantage evaluation standards. In some cases, nevertheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to spotlight the precise targets of sure packages and actions.

The 2 advantage evaluation standards are listed under. Each standards are to be given full consideration throughout the evaluation and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is ample. Due to this fact, proposers should absolutely handle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). accommodates further info to be used by proposers in growth of the Undertaking Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to evaluation the standards, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the evaluation of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers will likely be requested to think about what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they’ll know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the undertaking is profitable. These points apply each to the technical elements of the proposal and the way in which through which the undertaking could make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers will likely be requested to judge all proposals in opposition to two standards:

Mental Benefit: The Mental Benefit criterion encompasses the potential to advance data; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.

The next components needs to be thought of within the evaluation for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal area or throughout totally different fields (Mental Benefit); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?

To what extent do the proposed actions recommend and discover artistic, unique, or doubtlessly transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and based mostly on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, staff, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there sufficient sources accessible to the PI (both on the dwelling group or by way of collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved by way of the analysis itself, by way of the actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis tasks, or by way of actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the undertaking. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however should not restricted to: full participation of girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM training and educator growth at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; growth of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, trade, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and training.

Proposers are reminded that reviewers will even be requested to evaluation the Information Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as acceptable.

Extra Solicitation Particular Overview Standards

For IEP proposals:

How successfully does the design of undertaking actions (e.g., scholar helps, analysis, analysis, and so on.) take note of college students’ membership in populations described by demographic traits or lived experiences (e.g., low-income, commuter, parenting, first-generation, or veteran standing)?

B. Overview and Choice Course of

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will likely be reviewed by Advert hoc Overview and/or Panel Overview.

Reviewers will likely be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accredited advantage evaluation standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s evaluation will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice.

After scientific, technical and programmatic evaluation and consideration of acceptable components, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal needs to be declined or advisable for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform proposers whether or not their proposals have been declined or advisable for funding inside six months. Massive or significantly complicated proposals or proposals from new recipients could require further evaluation and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s advice.

After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals advisable for funding will likely be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for evaluation of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative evaluation has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer could make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF needs to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.

As soon as an award or declination choice has been made, Principal Investigators are offered suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, critiques are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of critiques, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying info, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Undertaking Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain an evidence of the choice to award or decline funding.

VII. Award Administration Info

A. Notification of the Award

Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined will likely be suggested as promptly as attainable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of critiques, not together with the identification of the reviewer, will likely be offered mechanically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added info on the evaluation course of.)

B. Award Situations

An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the finances, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has based mostly its assist (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award situations, reminiscent of Grant Basic Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance which may be integrated by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group by way of e-mail.

*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

Extra complete info on NSF Award Situations and different vital info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

Administrative and Nationwide Coverage Necessities

Construct America, Purchase America

As expressed in Government Order 14005, Making certain the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Employees (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the manager department to make use of phrases and situations of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, per regulation, the usage of items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and providers supplied in, america.

According to the necessities of the Construct America, Purchase America Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, November 15, 2021), no funding made accessible by way of this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award except all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and development supplies used within the undertaking are produced in america. For added info, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

Particular Award Situations:

HSI Program Analysis: Initiatives are required to cooperate and take part in further program efforts to assemble information and knowledge to assist HSI program monitoring and analysis. Initiatives are moreover required to take part, if requested, in any efforts to synthesize and disseminate program outcomes by way of present or future HSI-Web Facilities.

Open Entry to Undertaking Merchandise: Builders of recent supplies are required to license all work (apart from pc software program supply code, mentioned under) created with the assist of the grant beneath both the three.0 Unported or 3.0 United States model of the Inventive Commons Attribution (CC BY), Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. These licenses permit subsequent customers to repeat, distribute, transmit, and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such customers to attribute the work within the method specified by the grantee. Discover of the precise license used could be affixed to the work and displayed clearly when the work is made accessible on-line. For basic info on these Inventive Commons licenses, please go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.

It’s anticipated that pc software program supply code developed or created with NSF funds be launched beneath an mental property license that enables others to make use of and construct upon the work. The grantee could launch all new supply code developed or created with IUSE grant funds beneath an open license acceptable to the Free Software program Basis (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/) and/or the Open-Supply Initiative (https://opensource.org/license).

C. Reporting Necessities

For all multi-year grants (together with each normal and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual undertaking report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present finances interval. (Some packages or awards require submission of extra frequent undertaking stories). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a ultimate undertaking report, and a undertaking outcomes report for most of the people.

Failure to supply the required annual or ultimate undertaking stories, or the undertaking outcomes report, will delay NSF evaluation and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to look at the codecs of the required stories upfront to guarantee availability of required information.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, accessible by way of Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and ultimate undertaking stories. Such stories present info on accomplishments, undertaking contributors (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the undertaking. Submission of the report by way of Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The undertaking outcomes report additionally have to be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a quick abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the undertaking. This report will likely be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete info on NSF Reporting Necessities and different vital info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

All HSI program awardees are required to submit an annual analysis report for the undertaking in every annual and ultimate undertaking report.

The next matters needs to be addressed in all annual undertaking stories for awards within the EI observe:

Standing of order, supply, and set up of the project-funded gear;
Abstract of any coaching actions offered for scholar or school customers;
Abstract of normal upkeep carried out throughout the reporting interval;
Dialogue of any sudden upkeep that was required throughout the reporting interval;
Transient description of programs (together with laboratory programs), analysis tasks, and different actions that have been enabled by the project-funded gear;
Complete quantity college students and whole variety of undergraduate college students using the gear; and
Estimated total person-hours of utilization throughout all project-funded gear;

VIII. Company Contacts

Please observe that this system contact info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Basic inquiries concerning this program needs to be made to:

For questions associated to the usage of NSF techniques contact:

NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
Analysis.gov Assist Desk e-mail: [email protected]

For questions regarding Grants.gov contact:

Grants.gov Contact Middle: If the Licensed Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not obtained a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of software, please contact by way of phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. Different Info

The NSF web site supplies probably the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact info), packages and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of recent NSF funding alternatives and publications, vital modifications in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by way of e-mail or the consumer’s Net browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is out there on NSF’s web site.

Grants.gov supplies an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed by way of this mechanism. Additional info on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

About The Nationwide Science Basis

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an unbiased Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and training in all fields of science and engineering.”

NSF funds analysis and training in most fields of science and engineering. It does this by way of grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 schools, universities, Ok-12 faculty techniques, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal assist to tutorial establishments for fundamental analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, training and coaching tasks, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand functions for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does assist Nationwide Analysis Facilities, consumer services, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and trade, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each tutorial stage.

Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or gear to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported tasks. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions concerning preparation of most of these proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Info Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF packages, employment or basic info. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.

The Nationwide Science Basis Info Middle could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.

The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in america by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and training within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.

To get the newest details about program deadlines, to obtain copies of NSF publications, and to entry abstracts of awards, go to the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314

For Basic Info(NSF Info Middle):

(703) 292-5111

TDD (for the hearing-impaired):

(703) 292-5090

To Order Publications or Types:

Ship an e-mail to:

[email protected]

or phone:

(703) 292-8134

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Privateness Act And Public Burden Statements

The data requested on proposal types and undertaking stories is solicited beneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal types will likely be utilized in reference to the collection of certified proposals; and undertaking stories submitted by proposers will likely be used for program analysis and reporting throughout the Government Department and to Congress. The data requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal evaluation course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to supply or get hold of information concerning the proposal evaluation course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, consultants, volunteers and researchers and educators as vital to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing info concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software evaluation course of, or in an effort to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or celebration in a court docket or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick out potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of Report Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Data,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Data.” Submission of the data is voluntary. Failure to supply full and full info, nevertheless, could cut back the potential for receiving an award.

An company could not conduct or sponsor, and an individual is just not required to answer, an info assortment except it shows a legitimate Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of data is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback concerning the burden estimate and every other side of this assortment of data, together with strategies for decreasing this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
Reviews Clearance Officer
Coverage Workplace, Division of Establishment and Award Help
Workplace of Finances, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
Alexandria, VA 22314

X. Appendix

References:

1 Nationwide Science Board, Imaginative and prescient 2030, https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsb202015

2 Constructing the Future Investing in Innovation and Discovery: NSF Strategic Plan 2018-2022. https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18045

3 Nationwide Science Basis Strategic Plan. https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf22068

4 Hispanic-Serving Establishments Division – House Web page. https://www2.ed.gov/about/places of work/record/ope/idues/hsidivision.html

5 Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication. (2019). Minority serving establishments: America’s underutilized useful resource for strengthening the STEM workforce. Nationwide Academies Press.

6 Núñez, A.M., 2014. Advancing an intersectionality framework in increased training: Energy and Latino postsecondary alternative. In Greater training: Handbook of concept and analysis (pp. 33-92). Springer, Dordrecht.

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