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Collaboratives to Integrate Research and Education
OVERVIEW
The CIRE activity was intended to establish long-term research and education relationships between minority-serving institutions and NSF-supported facilities and centers. The long-term objective was to formalize and institutionalize these developing relationships by negotiating formal institution-to-institution agreements for continuation and support of the relationships.
CIRE proposals were allowed to request support for a maximum period of 3 years, to be funded at a maximum of $500,000 per year. Institutions were expected to provide reasonable assurances that the efforts and activities generated through CIRE would continue at a comparable level following conclusion of NSF funding of the award.
CIRE proposals were expected to be in compliance with all applicable equal opportunity laws and existing institutional policies. CIRE awards were expected to achieve significant increases in the number and quality of interactions between participants from the NSF-supported facility or center, and faculty and students at the minority-serving institution, and result in increasing graduate SEM degrees for underrepresented minorities, and networking and the dissemination of new knowledge.
In general, support was provided for activities that facilitate development of formal long-term research and education relationships between NSF-supported facilities and centers, and minority-serving institutions, by funding collaborative activities. Funded activities might have include (among others) development of collaborative and mutually beneficial research and education projects, and exchanges of faculty and students. The former could have included infrastructure enhancements at the minority-serving institution, if needed to support the proposed collaborative activity. It should be noted that, CIRE was not a general infrastructure program for minority-serving institutions.
Proposals had to clearly identify and address any administrative, education and research infrastructure changes needed to achieve CIRE objectives.
Pre-college and bridging programs were not eligible for CIRE support. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and well-prepared high school students could have been part of the proposed activity.
CIRE proposals had to be submitted by Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), and Tribally-Controlled Colleges (TCCs). Each CIRE proposal had to be submitted in collaboration with (and include a subcontract to) one or more NSF-supported facilities/centers or similar NSF-supported efforts.
PROGRAM GUIDELINES
98-47 (.pdf) Solicitation - (this is an old solicitation; this program is extinct)
AWARDS
| Award |
Organization |
Project Director |
Award Amount |
| 9872689 |
University of Puerto Rico at Humacao |
Fredy R. Zypman |
$1,358,579 |
| 9872694 |
Savannah State College |
Matthew R. Gilligan |
$1,484,844 |
| 9872701 |
North Carolina A&T State University |
Eui H. Park |
$1,336,112 |
| 9872731 |
Clark Atlanta University |
Randal L. Mandock |
$1,400,000 |
| 9872740 |
San Francisco State University |
Sheldon Axler |
$901,825 |
| 9872753 |
Morehouse College |
Obie Clayton |
$1,088,185 |
| 9872777 |
CUNY City College |
Daniel L. Akins |
$1,350,000 |
| 9981795 |
University of Texas at Brownsville |
Joseph D. Romano |
$785,157 |
| 9981939 |
Bowie State University |
Sadanand Srivastava |
$1,349,607 |
| 9982872 |
Florida A&M University |
Hamid Garmestani |
$1,400,000 |
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
As directed by the National Science Foundation’s Senior Management Integration Group (SMIG), the Foundation issued RFQ CPO 98-017 for a contractor to conduct workshops designed to expose participants to what works (best practices) in establishing and institutionalizing long-term research and education programs between minority-serving institutions and research-intensive organizations.
This report (.pdf) presents and analyzes the proceedings of the first Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education (CIRE) workshops sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted on behalf of NSF by The Widmeyer-Baker Institute (TWBI).
The contractor, TWBI, held regional workshops in Denver and Atlanta. The workshops were entitled Learn from Success: Workshops on Establishing and Obtaining Support for Long-Term Research and Education Programs. The workshops were open to representatives of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) including historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and Tribally-controlled colleges and representatives of NSF-supported facilities and centers (NSFSFCs).
The objective of each workshop was to enhance diversity in SEM research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education relationships between MSIs and NSFSFCs.
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