Broadening Participation Outreach

Background

The Foundation sponsors outreach events to gather community feedback for new programs, as well as to identify specific concerns within the community.

• The Office of Budget, Finance and Award Oversight (BFA) conducts outreach activities to educate the community about funding opportunities and policies and procedures, as well as to help investigators submit more competitive proposals. BFA outreach activities are availiable at http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/outreach.jsp.


• The Office of Legislative and Public Affairs conducts "NSF Days" to acquaint diverse institutions and regions of the country with research and education programs. "NSF Days" information is available at http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_group.jsp?group_id=20013&org=NSF.


• NSF Programs and divisions sponsor workshops to encourage the community to identify new areas of research and education (as an example, the Division of Materials Research lists their workshops at http://www.nsf.gov/mps/dmr/reports.jsp).


• Outreach activities sponsored by the Office of the Director are listed below.

NSF HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTION LISTENING SESSION
MARCH 1, 2009

On Sunday, March 1, NSF held a listening session to collect stakeholder input on Section 7003 of the America COMPETES Act. This legislation authorizes the Foundation to establish a new program to support Hispanic-serving institutions. Please click the links below to view the transcript, comments and Federal Register notice for this important project. All of the documents are in PDF format.

• Transcript
• Received Comments
• Federal Register notice

Inquiries

For further information concerning NSF's Broadening Participation programs, please contact:

Dr. Fae Korsmo
National Science Foundation
Phone: 703-292-8003
E-mail: fkorsmo@nsf.gov