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.