From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Aug 6 10:13:59 2009 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:13:59 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] Regents' 2010 Teacher Quality Sate Grants program RFP Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A1CF358@postman1.osrhe.edu> From: Sarani, Saeed Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:42 AM Good morning. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education invites applications via a request for proposal (RFP). The RFP is now posted on our websites: http://www.okhighered.org/itq/2010.shtml . Title II, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), authorizes the Highly Qualified Teachers and Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program. The goal of the program is to ensure that all students have highly qualified teachers; that is, teachers with the subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills necessary to help all children achieve high academic standards, regardless of individual learning styles or needs. Also, as NCLB clearly states, the purpose of teachers' professional development is to design activities that increase teacher content knowledge, teacher effectiveness, and teacher conceptual understanding in the subject areas they are teaching. Approximately $900,000.00 will be awarded to eligible partnerships to support innovative and effective continuing professional education that improves; (1) teacher content knowledge in mathematics, science, or reading and language arts, (2) teacher instructional practices designed to support effective teaching, and (3) teacher knowledge about data-driven decision-making processes in the classroom. Projects may also incorporate establishing peer-teaching or co-teaching among project participants and strategies to help ELL, ESL, and low income students integrating math, science and reading/language arts content and pedagogy. Two award types will be available this year; Award A and Award B. The State Regents intend to select multiple qualified proposals for Award A and Award B. Grant Program Eligible Partnerships: The partnerships will use the funds to conduct professional development activities in reading/language arts, mathematics, or science. A partnership must include, at a minimum: (1) a private or public institution of higher education (IHE) and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals; (2) a school of arts and sciences that awards baccalaureate degrees; AND (3) a high-need local education agency (LEA). The education department (Partner #1) and the school of arts and sciences (Partner #2) may be housed within the same IHE. A high-need LEA is defined by the U.S. Department of Education as: * (A) a LEA that serves not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line OR for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line, AND * (B) a LEA for which there is a high percentage of teachers not teaching in the academic subjects or grade levels that the teachers were trained to teach, OR for which there is a high percentage of teachers with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification or licensing A Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Sept. 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents in Oklahoma City from 10 a.m. to noon. We look forward to reviewing your applications. Feel free to forward this email to others in your department who might be interested to apply. Please let me know if you have any questions. Good luck! Saeed Saeed Sarani, M.S., M.B.A. Curriculum Advisor, Teacher Education and Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3603 405-225-9192 ssarani at osrhe.du -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090806/401a3441/attachment.html From lmason at osrhe.edu Wed Aug 12 10:38:20 2009 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:38:20 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] FW: OCAST Launches Intern Database Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A1CF3C8@postman1.osrhe.edu> Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 lmason at osrhe.edu IP: 164.58.250.178 ________________________________ From: Jessica Vinson [mailto:jvinson at OCAST.STATE.OK.US] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:37 PM To: Mason, Linda Subject: OCAST Launches Intern Database OCAST has launched another tool to assist those in research based fields. The INTERN Database is available for businesses and students to input their info. At WWW.OCAST.OK.GOV , people will find the resources to locate an intern, a research-based internship or a faculty sponsored research opportunity. For more information, contact Tessa at 405-319-8410 or Jessica at 405-319-8412. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anderson (center), representing East Central University, signs a partnership agreement with the Macau Song Qing Ling Foundation International Education Center in China that will allow Chinese teachers to earn master's degrees from ECU. Thomas Wallis (left) represented the foundation at the signing ceremony. Watching is Dr. Bill Osborne, dean of ECU's College of Education and Psychology. A trip to East Central University last April by recruiters looking for American teachers for a new school in China has evolved into a partnership agreement that will allow Chinese teachers to earn master's degrees from ECU. The agreement was signed by Dr. Duane C. Anderson, as interim president of ECU, and Thomas Wallis, chairman of the Macau Song Qing Ling Foundation International Education Center. Wallis was one of the recruiters. Beginning this August, Chinese students will be able to take online graduate courses from ECU during the fall and spring semesters. They will be required to come to ECU in the summer for two months of classes to complete the requirements for a master of education degree in either elementary or secondary education. "We don't anticipate more than a handful this year," said Dr. Bill Osborne, dean of ECU's College of Education and Psychology. "They would already have to have their TOEFL scores and have their transcripts verified because they have to meet all of ECU's requirements to be admitted." The first students, who would not come to the campus until next summer, will be the two people who came on the recruiting trip to ECU in April, Wallis and Mia Wang. The Macau Song Qing Ling Foundation had established an education unit, Osborne explained, with Wallis as its chairman. They were looking for teachers for a pre-school/kindergarten, an English immersion boarding school for children 3 to 6 years old, being built by Wang's father in Nanjing, China. "While they were here, we outlined a quick document showing that we could offer online courses and summer courses at ECU. They took the information to China to Mia's father and an agreement was worked out," Osborne said. Wallis is a native Oklahoman with a background in communications as a trainer for adults in business. The foundation has had partnerships with other universities that cost Chinese students about $50,000 a year, Osborne said. "This is an opportunity for their students to get a master's degree at a reasonable price at a reputable university and be gone only two months," he said. "There could be a market for this over there." Foundation officials looked at ECU's reputation, its Web site, the number of programs it offers and the national accreditations it holds before agreeing to the proposal, he said. The proposal also allows for the program to be expanded to include students seeking undergraduate degrees from ECU. The foundation will charge fees to Chinese students to help them go through the steps to be admitted to ECU, Osborne said, such as securing visas and other documents, completing testing and collecting money and fees. Students do not have the use the foundation, however. "This doesn't cost ECU anything. It is a very well-known, prestigious foundation," Osborne said. "It has many locations. This one is in Macau." In fact, the foundation is paying Osborne's expenses to go to Nanjing, China, in July to give a lecture describing the method of continuing education for American teachers and to promote ECU's proposal for offering graduate degrees to Chinese teachers. He also will talk about other program options open to potential Chinese students to encourage them come to ECU for six months or for an entire academic year. "This trip will focus primarily on graduate student recruitment," he said. "But I'm sure we will also have opportunities to visit with students about to graduate from high schools as well as those who are in, or are about to enter, undergraduate programs in China." Osborne said China's education system compares to the United States' in the 1950s. "In China, the teachers teach and the students sit quietly at their desks. They never question the teacher. We know now that students learn better if they are actively engaged," he explained. "We want them to question what they are being taught. Critically analyze it, take it apart and be able to apply it to something else. We want to see students perform." Osborne said teachers should not just teach but also measure the effect of their teaching on learning. "If students aren't learning, why?" he asked. "Is it because of learning styles, developmental learning or something else? It can't be all just the students. Teachers have to be part of the approach." Osborne said ECU's master's program in education is designed to teach students to understand and apply research and to use that knowledge to better educate children. Chinese students will take a research methods course online to learn how to do research. They will design a research study that will be approved by ECU faculty and will conduct research at their own schools. They will bring their results to ECU in the summer to do a study on the effects of their teaching on student learning "For example," Osborne said, "what are the questions we should be asking? Is one teaching method better than another? What if we try a strategy with one group but not another? Is doing this better than doing that? This is what the Chinese are not doing now." During their summer stay on campus, the Chinese will take 13 credit hours of classes. "They will be very busy," he said, "but we want to show them something about the culture in our country. They could design a lesson for our students or they could design a class about our culture to take to China." Osborne expects more than two students to enroll this fall but wants only a small number the first year. "Evidently, a large number of teachers want to come to the United States," he said. "There's a potential for a very active, large program to develop here. This is a wonderful opportunity, if we make sure we take our time and do it right." The same online master's program is available to other students, he said. Osborne said the Chinese agreement is the result of assistance from a lot of other people at ECU, especially the heads of University Development, the Education Department, School of Graduate Studies, Career Development Center and the Admissions and Records, International Students and Bursar's Offices. Linda Mason, Ed.D. 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Now in its 11th year, Oklahoma Research Day has grown in numbers and in stature with contributions from all of Oklahoma's institutions of higher education including many collaborative contributions from national and international academic and research institutions. The number of oral and poster presentations have grown to over 500 with over 800 students, faculty and guests in attendance. Oklahoma Research Day is funded by Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma Experimental Program for Stimulating Competitive Research (EPSCoR) - National Science Foundation, Idea Network for Biomedical Research Experience (INBRE) - National Institutes of Health and the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST). For the past nine years, Oklahoma Research Day has traditionally been held on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma. Northeastern State University is proud to host the 2008 Oklahoma Research Day at the Broken Arrow campus. This event is more than merely a celebration of their research, creative and scholarly activities. It is also an opportunity for students and faculty from multiple institutions to interact with counterparts in their respective disciplines. Oklahoma Research Day is the premier academic research event in the State. Information about submitting abstracts will be available in late August at www.nsuok.edu. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 lmason at osrhe.edu IP: 164.58.250.178 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I usually provide SEARCH and SELECT and BEGINNING GRANTWRITING here in OKC each semester. When I come to campuses, it is useful to have someone from the federal agencies come by videoconference, say EDUC or NSF or NEA, to enhance a particular group of faculty members plans. Hope to hear from you soon. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 lmason at osrhe.edu IP: 164.58.250.178 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090821/2cbee91c/attachment.html From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Aug 27 11:15:43 2009 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:15:43 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] Technical Meeting for Teacher Quality Grant Program Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A1CF540@postman1.osrhe.edu> From: Sarani, Saeed Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:45 AM To: Sarani, Saeed Subject: FW: Technical Meeting The 2010 NCLB Improving Teacher Quality Grant Programs' Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Thursday September 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents (OneNet room) from 10 a.m. to noon. The OneNet room is located on the first floor of the 655 Research Parkway building. The map is attached for your convenience. This meeting will serve as a question-and-answer session for potential grant applicants. Please RSVP no later than 2 p.m. on Aug. 28, 2009, and if you are planning to attend. If you are participating via videoconference (VC), please complete the attached VC form and email it back to me as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing you next Thursday. Thanks! Saeed Saeed Sarani, M.S., M.B.A. Curriculum Advisor, Teacher Education and Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3603 405-225-9192 ________________________________ From: Sarani, Saeed Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:38 AM To: Sarani, Saeed Subject: FW: 2010 TQ Sate Grants program RFP Good morning. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education invites applications via a request for proposal (RFP). The RFP is now posted on our websites: http://www.okhighered.org/itq/2010.shtml . Title II, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), authorizes the Highly Qualified Teachers and Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program. The goal of the program is to ensure that all students have highly qualified teachers; that is, teachers with the subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills necessary to help all children achieve high academic standards, regardless of individual learning styles or needs. Also, as NCLB clearly states, the purpose of teachers' professional development is to design activities that increase teacher content knowledge, teacher effectiveness, and teacher conceptual understanding in the subject areas they are teaching. Approximately $900,000.00 will be awarded to eligible partnerships to support innovative and effective continuing professional education that improves; (1) teacher content knowledge in mathematics, science, or reading and language arts, (2) teacher instructional practices designed to support effective teaching, and (3) teacher knowledge about data-driven decision-making processes in the classroom. Projects may also incorporate establishing peer-teaching or co-teaching among project participants and strategies to help ELL, ESL, and low income students integrating math, science and reading/language arts content and pedagogy. Two award types will be available this year; Award A and Award B. The State Regents intend to select multiple qualified proposals for Award A and Award B. Grant Program Eligible Partnerships: The partnerships will use the funds to conduct professional development activities in reading/language arts, mathematics, or science. A partnership must include, at a minimum: (1) a private or public institution of higher education (IHE) and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals; (2) a school of arts and sciences that awards baccalaureate degrees; AND (3) a high-need local education agency (LEA). The education department (Partner #1) and the school of arts and sciences (Partner #2) may be housed within the same IHE. A high-need LEA is defined by the U.S. Department of Education as: * (A) a LEA that serves not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line OR for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line, AND * (B) a LEA for which there is a high percentage of teachers not teaching in the academic subjects or grade levels that the teachers were trained to teach, OR for which there is a high percentage of teachers with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification or licensing A Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Sept. 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents in Oklahoma City from 10 a.m. to noon. We look forward to reviewing your applications. Feel free to forward this email to others in your department who might be interested to apply. Please let me know if you have any questions. Good luck! Saeed Saeed Sarani, M.S., M.B.A. Curriculum Advisor, Teacher Education and Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3603 405-225-9192 ssarani at osrhe.du -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090827/b0d34f55/attachment-0002.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Video Conference Work Order.doc Type: application/msword Size: 46592 bytes Desc: Video Conference Work Order.doc Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090827/b0d34f55/attachment-0002.doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: osrhe_map.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 139589 bytes Desc: osrhe_map.pdf Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090827/b0d34f55/attachment-0002.obj From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Aug 27 11:15:43 2009 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:15:43 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] Technical Meeting for Teacher Quality Grant Program Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A1CF540@postman1.osrhe.edu> From: Sarani, Saeed Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:45 AM To: Sarani, Saeed Subject: FW: Technical Meeting The 2010 NCLB Improving Teacher Quality Grant Programs' Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Thursday September 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents (OneNet room) from 10 a.m. to noon. The OneNet room is located on the first floor of the 655 Research Parkway building. The map is attached for your convenience. This meeting will serve as a question-and-answer session for potential grant applicants. Please RSVP no later than 2 p.m. on Aug. 28, 2009, and if you are planning to attend. If you are participating via videoconference (VC), please complete the attached VC form and email it back to me as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing you next Thursday. Thanks! Saeed Saeed Sarani, M.S., M.B.A. Curriculum Advisor, Teacher Education and Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3603 405-225-9192 ________________________________ From: Sarani, Saeed Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:38 AM To: Sarani, Saeed Subject: FW: 2010 TQ Sate Grants program RFP Good morning. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education invites applications via a request for proposal (RFP). The RFP is now posted on our websites: http://www.okhighered.org/itq/2010.shtml . Title II, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), authorizes the Highly Qualified Teachers and Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program. The goal of the program is to ensure that all students have highly qualified teachers; that is, teachers with the subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills necessary to help all children achieve high academic standards, regardless of individual learning styles or needs. Also, as NCLB clearly states, the purpose of teachers' professional development is to design activities that increase teacher content knowledge, teacher effectiveness, and teacher conceptual understanding in the subject areas they are teaching. Approximately $900,000.00 will be awarded to eligible partnerships to support innovative and effective continuing professional education that improves; (1) teacher content knowledge in mathematics, science, or reading and language arts, (2) teacher instructional practices designed to support effective teaching, and (3) teacher knowledge about data-driven decision-making processes in the classroom. Projects may also incorporate establishing peer-teaching or co-teaching among project participants and strategies to help ELL, ESL, and low income students integrating math, science and reading/language arts content and pedagogy. Two award types will be available this year; Award A and Award B. The State Regents intend to select multiple qualified proposals for Award A and Award B. Grant Program Eligible Partnerships: The partnerships will use the funds to conduct professional development activities in reading/language arts, mathematics, or science. A partnership must include, at a minimum: (1) a private or public institution of higher education (IHE) and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals; (2) a school of arts and sciences that awards baccalaureate degrees; AND (3) a high-need local education agency (LEA). The education department (Partner #1) and the school of arts and sciences (Partner #2) may be housed within the same IHE. A high-need LEA is defined by the U.S. Department of Education as: * (A) a LEA that serves not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line OR for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line, AND * (B) a LEA for which there is a high percentage of teachers not teaching in the academic subjects or grade levels that the teachers were trained to teach, OR for which there is a high percentage of teachers with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification or licensing A Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Sept. 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents in Oklahoma City from 10 a.m. to noon. We look forward to reviewing your applications. Feel free to forward this email to others in your department who might be interested to apply. Please let me know if you have any questions. Good luck! 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Please review and forward to any you think might have interest. <> Job Postings for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: http://www.okhighered.org/job-opportunities/ Thanks. Debbie Blanke, Ed.D. Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education State Coordinator for ACM and OKWHE 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 405.225.9145 405.225.9230 (fax) dblanke at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org "Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." --Anonymous -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090828/b4b71edc/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Coordinator Academic Affairs Projects \(Dwayne Holford\) 100011new draft.doc Type: application/msword Size: 55296 bytes Desc: Coordinator Academic Affairs Projects (Dwayne Holford) 100011new draft.doc Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090828/b4b71edc/attachment-0001.doc From lmason at osrhe.edu Mon Aug 31 08:55:49 2009 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:55:49 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] NSF Policy on Cost Sharing - Ending Voluntary Cost Sharing Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A1CF585@postman1.osrhe.edu> INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION Leveling the NSF Playing Field August 31, 2009 Colleges and universities contribute significantly to the cost of federally sponsored research projects, through what they spend on research labs and equipment, faculty start-up packages, and "indirect" costs that aren't reimbursed by the government. At various points, federal agencies have either required or encouraged them to quite literally "share" the costs of research grants they win, essentially putting up their own funds to match a portion of the grant's value. The practice has been debated, though, with proponents arguing that it shows institutions' commitment by forcing them to put their own "skin in the game," but detractors saying that requiring or encouraging "cost sharing" puts less-wealthy colleges and universities at a disadvantage against wealthier peers, and can lead grant reviewers to favor proposals from institutions that volunteer to contribute even though that isn't supposed to factor into the decision making. The 2007 American COMPETES Act asked the National Science Board to weigh the pros and cons in reassessing the cost sharing policies of the National Science Foundation, and the board issued a report Friday that calls for ending the practice of "voluntary" cost sharing in all circumstances, while continuing "mandatory" contributions in a small number of industry-focused federal programs as recommended by an interim report the board issued last year. "The board firmly believes that prohibiting voluntary committed cost sharing, and permitting mandatory cost sharing requirements only in limited and appropriate circumstances, will not reduce institutional commitment and financial contributions to NSF-sponsored projects or negatively impact institutional stewardship of Federal resources," Steven C. Beering, president emeritus of Purdue University and chairman of the science board, wrote in a memo accompanying the report. "Instead, it likely will enhance the ability of institutions to strategically and flexibly plan, invest in, and conduct research projects and programs, and will promote equity among grantee institutions in NSF funding competitions." The report, "Investing in the Future NSF Cost Sharing Policies for a Robust Federal Research Enterprise," recounts the history of the science foundation's policies on cost sharing, which has shifted repeatedly over 50 years . In 2004, the science board eliminated mandatory cost sharing requirements in all NSF programs, aligning the agency's practices with those of other federal research agencies. The change did not address "voluntary" cost sharing, which continued to be permitted under NSF rules. Eliminating required matching by institutions was designed to take an institution's ability to contribute financially out of the peer review equation and "remove eligibility barriers to participation in certain NSF programs by institutions unable to provide the required cost sharing," among other beneficial outcomes, the board writes in its new report. But the 2004 change created some problems, too, most notably that it made it more difficult for colleges and universities to "leverage" federal money to attract corporate research support in NSF programs that are designed to encourage academic-industry collaboration. When the panel on cost sharing began its work in late 2007, as demanded by the America COMPETES Act, which was designed to strengthen the country's commitment to research and education in the physical and natural sciences, it very quickly reached the conclusion that the NSF should alter its policies on mandatory cost sharing. Its February 2008 report recommended that the agency reinstate mandatory matching in three programs with strong corporate involvement: the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers, and Engineering Research Centers programs (which NSF promptly did). The report issued Friday, based on a broader review and soliciting of opinions on the NSF's cost sharing policies, affirms that the NSF should "allow, but narrowly circumscribe, the application of mandatory cost sharing requirements in NSF programs in which cost sharing is foundational to achieve programmatic goals," which at this point it defines as the programs above plus two programs in which it was dictated by America COMPETES: the Major Research Instrumentation Program and the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The panel dedicates much more discussion, though, to the thornier issue of "voluntary" cost sharing -- which like many other financial issues gets complicated because it becomes something other than fully "voluntary," because those that don't pony up often come to be seen (fairly or not) as weaker by those making decisions. "The proposer community generally views offers of voluntary committed cost sharing in proposals in increasing their competitiveness (i.e., likelihood of receiving funding) in NSF funding competitions," the science board writes. "Correspondingly, failing to offer significant voluntary committed cost sharing in proposals is viewed as creating a competitive disadvantage. These views are widespread and strong ... even though NSF instructs program officers, reviewers, and the proposer community that voluntary committed cost sharing is not to be a factor in the merit review and award decision process." The assessment that voluntary sharing creates inequity among research institutions, combined with a desire to ease institutions' administrative burdens for tracking voluntary cost sharing and to give colleges and universities "maximum flexibility in expending their discretionary resources on research activities," led the science board to recommend that "NSF should prohibit voluntary committed cost sharing in all components of both solicited and unsolicited proposals." The science board report includes one further recommendation that could bode well for colleges and universities down the road: a suggestion that the federal government review whether to raise the cap (currently at 26 percent) on the percentage of administrative costs for which universities can be reimbursed by the government on research projects. Universities are alone among among contractors that do federal research on which such a cap is imposed, the Council on Governmental Relations notes . "The board understands the fundamental intent of the administrative rate reimbursement cap -- to ensure that the majority of research funding supports direct research effort, rather than administrative costs -- but also concurs with the general view of the research community that the current 26 percent reimbursement cap requires re-evaluation," the report states. - Doug Lederman (c) Copyright 2009 Inside Higher Ed Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 lmason at osrhe.edu IP: 164.58.250.178 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20090831/a862fdd3/attachment.html