Lead Program Director National Science Foundation Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
The U.S. National Science Foundation supports research and work that creates a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce, and to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM students and faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. The NSF has many programs that provide grants to enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and to mitigate the systemic factors that create inequities in the academic profession and workplaces. Systemic (or organizational) inequities may exist in areas such as policy and practice as well as in organizational culture and climate. The AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference showcases and offers insight into the most recent funding priorities for advancing the reform of US undergraduate STEM education and the most viable and practical ways for accessing them. Session leaders will discuss future directions of undergraduate STEM education reform and review funding mechanisms for broadening participation in STEM, as well as NSF’s most recent solicitations for proposals aimed at advancing a national agenda for the reform of undergraduate STEM education that prioritizes racial equity.
