Project Grant P031A210168

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track 2 award provides $999,985 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to conduct a multi-stage intervention investigating how academic programs can better leverage the cultural strengths and ways of knowing of marginalized doctoral students in STEM fields. The project aims to redesign and implement enhancements to three existing UCSC programs - the Cota Robles Fellows Program, New Gen Learning Consortium,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $133,617 to Temple University to address preparation gaps and promote culturally relevant teaching to support diverse groups in computing courses. The university will expand its Bridges system of learning materials to better serve underrepresented student populations in foundational data structures and algorithms courses. Key products and services include...

The Cultural Heritage Improves Learning and Development (CHILD) Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education through the Alaska Native Educational Programs grant program (CFDA 84.356), aims to prepare Alaska Native preschool students in partnership schools to be kindergarten ready. The $3.042 million project grant was awarded to the Bristol Bay Borough School District on September 30, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on September 29,...

The College Unbound has been awarded a $706,588 Project Grant under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428) by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education. The grant will support the establishment of the Transformative Educator Pathways' Center of Excellence (TEP-CE), which aims to create a center of excellence for delivering equitable teacher preparation programs through multiple certification pathways. The...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $8,799,112 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the "COHORT LEARNING PROGRAM". The award commenced on January 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2027. The grant supports institutional reforms and innovative strategies to improve postsecondary education...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $679,917 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a culturally responsive community of practice. The goal is to facilitate the adaptation of culturally responsive practices in graduate STEM education and mentoring to address disparities faced by historically excluded populations. Key project activities include: Conducting four trainings in culturally relevant...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program grant, with a total award of $1,730,730, aims to develop and evaluate a culturally responsive STEM education program for 4th grade Hispanic students. The project will revise the existing "Science is Fun" program using a co-design process to incorporate cultural themes and near-peer Hispanic mentors. The revised after-school program will engage students and their families in hands-on science...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $468,565 supports a research project at the University of Delaware titled "Investigating How Opportunities to Learn Culturally Responsive Teaching Influence Beginning Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Effectiveness and Retention." The project, funded under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), aims to explore how teacher education programs prepare elementary teachers for culturally...

This $8,494,700 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Education Innovation and Research (CFDA 84.411) program supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of a culturally responsive, project-based learning intervention in secondary science in Alabama and North Carolina. The primary awardee, Michigan State University, is partnering with Winston-Salem State University and Alabama A&M University to conduct randomized controlled trials of the Crafting...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $314,804 to Montana State University (MSU) to support a three-year initiative focused on building the capacity of rural elementary teachers in Maine, Montana, and Hawaii to incorporate locally and culturally significant, place-based science phenomena into their teaching practices. The project aims to design, implement, and investigate a professional learning approach that enables...