Opportunity Information: Apply for 23 584
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a grant opportunity called IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (often referred to as the ITYC program). The purpose of this program is to make a focused investment in the nation’s two-year colleges and strengthen undergraduate STEM education in settings that serve large, diverse, and often highly place-bound student populations. The program sits under NSF’s broader Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) framework, which is meant to accelerate improvements in the quality, effectiveness, and inclusiveness of STEM teaching and learning.
The opportunity is built around two core goals. First, it aims to put students at the center of STEM education reform at two-year colleges by supporting innovations that improve equitable outcomes and broaden participation for all students. Second, it seeks to build and strengthen institutional capacity at two-year colleges by helping them better tap into the talent of their students and faculty through new approaches that can be disciplinary (within a field), multi-department (across fields), or college-wide (institutional systems and structures). In practice, NSF is looking for projects that measurably improve student success in foundational STEM courses and along academic pathways, whether students are STEM majors planning to transfer or complete a credential, or non-majors taking STEM coursework as part of another program.
Projects can be proposed in any discipline NSF supports, which explicitly includes not only traditional STEM fields but also the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. The larger idea is that by funding well-designed projects at two-year colleges, the program will help ensure that both students and faculty at these institutions have the tools, support, and learning environments needed to fully participate in the broader STEM enterprise, including further study, careers, and contributions to research and innovation.
The solicitation is organized into two tracks. Track 1, "A Focus on the Academic Experiences of Two-Year College Students," emphasizes interventions and improvements that directly affect students’ learning experiences, progress, and success. Track 2, "Leveraging Institutional Strengths and Innovation," emphasizes using and scaling what a college already does well while building institutional structures, partnerships, and innovative practices that can improve STEM education more broadly across programs or departments. Either track can support proposals requesting up to $500,000 for up to three years.
There is also a built-in incentive for institutions that are relatively new to NSF funding. If a two-year college has not received NSF funding in the past five years, it may add up to an additional $100,000 to the budget. This incentive funding is intended to help the institution carry out grant activities over a longer period, allowing a project to run up to four years with a maximum total budget of $600,000. A key eligibility detail is that colleges that previously received NSF support as part of a collaborative award where they had their own NSF award number cannot use this incentive, but colleges that were only involved through a subaward from another institution remain eligible for the additional funds.
Eligibility is limited to two-year colleges as defined by Carnegie Classifications. This includes "Associate’s Colleges," where the highest degree awarded is an associate degree (including both transfer-focused and career and technical institutions), and "Baccalaureate/Associate’s Colleges," which award at least one baccalaureate degree but grant at least 50 percent of their degrees at the associate level. The funding instrument is a grant, the program sits in the science and technology research and development category, and NSF anticipates making about 20 awards under this opportunity. The opportunity number is 23-584, and the original closing date listed for the referenced cycle is December 13, 2023.Apply for 23 584
- The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.076.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 06, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 13, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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