Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Regional Technology Consortia
The purpose of this program is to help States, local educational agencies,
teachers, school library and media personnel, administrators and other
education entities successfully integrate advanced technologies into kindergarten
through 12th grade classrooms, library media centers, and other educational
settings (including adult literacy centers).
Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Division of Undergraduate Education
Instrumentation and Laboratory
Improvement (ILI)
The objective of ILI is to encourage and support development of new
or better experiments and laboratory curricula that improve the science,
mathematics, engineering, and technology (SME&T) education of
undergraduate students, both majors and nonmajors. An important target
audience is the students who are preparing to be K-12 teachers.
Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Division of Research Evaluation and Communication
Research on Education Policy and
Practice (REPP)
Research on Education, Policy, and Practice (REPP) supports cultivation
of a research base for implementing innovative K-16, i.e., elementary,
secondary, and undergraduate reform strategies, as well as ways of improving
graduate, professional, and informal and lifelong learning. Research and
development that undergird NSF's intervention in SMET education is the
overarching priority of the REPP.
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
CISE Educational Innovation Program
The objective of the CISE Educational Innovation (EI) program is to
stimulate innovative educational activities at the undergraduate level
in CISE disciplines by encouraging the transfer of research results into
the undergraduate curriculum. The EI program will support the design,
development, testing and dissemination of innovative approaches for increasing
the effectiveness of the undergraduate learning experience in CISE disciplines
by integrating research results into undergraduate courses and curricula.
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Grant
Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
The Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
initiative aims to synergize university-industry partnerships by making
investment funds available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university
linkages.
Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Societal Dimensions of Engineering
Science & Technology (SDEST)
In SDEST, the Ethics and Values Studies (EVS) component focuses on
developing and transmitting knowledge about ethical and value dimensions
associated with the conduct and impacts of science, engineering, and technology.
The Research on Science and Technology (RST) component supports research
to improve approaches and information for decision making concerning management
and direction of research, science and technology. One of he overarching
goals is to improve approaches to research and information for and from
research in these fields and to make research results of broad use in educational,
policy and other settings. SDEST also supports educational projects
on ethics, values, and the conduct and impacts of science and engineering.
Educational projects use results from research on ethics and the conduct
and impacts of science and engineering to develop programs or materials
for formal or informal educational settings.
Advanced Study Institutes
The objective of the Advanced Study Institute is to disseminate advanced
knowledge not yet in university curricula and foster international scientific
contacts through high-level teaching courses. An ASI is a post-doctoral-level
teaching activity lasting ten days, the meeting normally has 12 to 15 lecturers
and 60-80 ASI students of different nationalities.
Advanced Research Workshops
Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) are working meetings aimed at contributing
to the assessment of existing knowledge of a topic and identifying
directions for future research. An ARW is normally a meeting of two to
five days' duration, involving between 20 and 50 participants.
US AID - Development Education Program
The Biden-Pell Development Education Program administered by PVC [USAID's
Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation] is a public/private initiative
designed to foster interest in, and awareness of, international development
among U.S. citizens. The program supports activities by private,
not-for-profit organizations to educate large segments of the American
public about U.S. humanitarian relief and development programs overseas
and to build understanding for these programs. Program audiences
may not include overseas audiences.
Autodesk
Grants of AutoCAD Map, Autodesk World and Autodesk MapGuide software
will be awarded for curriculum development, instruction and research.
Up to 75 grants will be awarded on the basis of merit, need and software
availability to not-for-profit educational institutions and full-time faculty.
BellSouth Foundation
The BellSouth Foundation awards grants throughout nine southeastern
states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Improved learning is the goal of
the BellSouth Foundation and the heart of its current program. Collaboration
among places of learning is imperative: both vertically, between preK-12
and high education, and horizontally, through new networks of institutions,
workplaces and communities.
Chrysler Corporation Fund
The fund concentrates its support on programs that address the key
issues and criteria in the communities where the company has major operations
and where its employees live and work.
Hewlett (William and Flora) Foundation
Grants in the education program are made to promote long-term institutional
development, reform, or renewal in the specific program areas in higher
education and elementary and secondary education.
Hewlett-Packard Company
US University Instructional Equipment Grants
The purpose of U.S. University Equipment Grants is to improve the quality
of higher education by providing HP products to four-year colleges and
universities in support of instruction and research consistent with HP's
business interests.
Intel Foundation
Founded by the corporation in 1989, the Intel Foundation was established
for the purpose of developing and funding educational and charitable contribution
programs in four key areas: ... 2) advancing science and engineering education;
3) promoting public understanding of electronics technologies and their
impact on contemporary life....
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
Institutional Hosting Opportunities, US/NIS Curriculum
Consultants Exchange Program
Qualified educators and advanced graduate students from accredited
US institutions in the United States are invited to submit proposals to
host NIS participants for one semester on projects to assist in the development
of social science and humanities curricula in post-secondary educational
programs of the NIS. Post-secondary level faculty and predoctoral
candidates from participating countries of the NIS have already been selected
through an open competition to collaborate with their American colleagues
on issues of teaching methodology and course design in disciplines of the
social sciences and humanities. Grants are provided for travel and
subsistence of NIS visitors.
Kellogg (W K) Foundation
Specific areas of programming interest are: Health, Food Systems, Rural
Development, Youth and Education, Higher Education, and Philanthropy and
Volunteerism. Higher Education seeks to strengthen higher education and
mobilize its resources to help address societal needs.
Kemper (James S) Foundation
The Foundation concentrates its resources on grants to institutions
of higher education and to educational programs of major cultural institutions.
Within higher education, priority is given to projects dealing with undergraduate
or graduate business education.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Higher Education and Reform
The goals of the Higher Education and Reform program are 1) to establish
new and higher aspirations with regard to the purposes and performance
of undergraduate education; 2) to engage colleges and universities more
productively and strategically in the reform of America's schools; and
3) to shape a professoriate that is responsive to America's changing needs
for quality teaching and scholarship in the coming century.
Rockwell International Corporation Trust
Rockwell's funding priorities emphasize primary, secondary and higher
educational institutions or programs that promote interest or research
in engineering, mathematics, science and technology.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching Initiative
The Trustees of the Foundation have approved an initiative to explore
these issues through carefully designed experiments. The objective would
be to find faculty champions in a variety of kinds of higher education
institutions, ranging from community colleges to research universities,
who would design and carry out experiments to test technological applications
that may be both cost-effective and educationally effective. Subject matter,
course structure, time and place, type of technology, and other variables
are all open to discussion. The Foundation hopes that such experiments
will lead to niche applications of technology to teaching which are educationally
sound and cost-effective and which preserve resources for continuing to
do well many of the traditional activities which are so highly valued by
students, by faculties, and by society.