New Funding for Innovative Undergraduate Math Programs

The National Science Foundation is inviting proposals to support innovation in undergraduate math instruction during the first two years of college. According to a recently released Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the goal is to strengthen academic success in core math courses for students interested in pursuing STEM degrees. Projects will be funded as supplements to existing awards. Specifically:

“Researchers are invited to submit supplemental funding requests for existing awards; to use the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) funding mechanism, which supports exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches; or submit proposals for conferences to support the following types of activities:

  • design and development work to pilot innovations with high impact potential for helping students learn the mathematics generally taught in the first two years of both 2-year and 4-year postsecondary institutions
  • conferences in 2015 on using research to improve student success in the mathematics generally taught in the first two years in the first two years of college.”

This DCL will be in effect until May 1, 2015. Tribal Colleges and Universities Program Director Dr. Jody Chase emphasized that this DCL represents an opportunity for tribal and native serving colleges, which focus on undergraduate instruction.

For more information see the full text of this Dear Colleague Letter at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15026