Conference: grant-seeking workshops in computer science for smaller, independent, primarily undergraduate institutions

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) was awarded a $183,846 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070).

The grant supports CIC's efforts to increase the number of research grants sought and awarded in computer science to faculty members at small to mid-sized, predominantly undergraduate institutions. Specifically, the funding will support a series of three workshops training up to 180 early career computer science faculty and 180 grants administrators to write competitive proposals for NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative and Faculty Early Career Development programs. The goals are to strengthen these institutions' grant-seeking capacity and increase the number of grants awarded in computer science and related fields to CIC member institutions under the two NSF programs, with a target of twenty awarded projects by 2025.

Abstract

This grant supports efforts by the council of independent colleges (CIC) to increase the number of research grants in computer science sought by and awarded to faculty members at small to midsized independent predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIS). The award supports a series of three workshops targeting faculty members in computer science and related disciplines to write effective and compelling proposals to the national science foundation?S (NSF) computer and information science and engineering research initiation initiative (CRII) and faculty early CAREER development program (CAREER) programs. The goals of these workshops are to: 1) train up to 180 early CAREER faculty members in computer science and related disciplines from predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIS) to submit competitive proposals to the CAREER and CRII programs. 2) prepare grants administrators at up to 180 institutions to better collaborate with faculty members in computer science on seeking and managing NSF research grants?and, in the process, strengthen the grant-seeking capacity of these institutions. 3) increase the number of grants awarded to CIC member institutions in NSF?S CRII and CAREER programs for computer science and related disciplines, with the goal of twenty awarded projects by 2025. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.