Transcript Leveraging Capacity

Leveraging Capacity-Building
Efforts
or
“How to Take Advantage of
Other People’s Grants”
Capacity-Building Infrastructure
What is it?
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People
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Students
Faculty
Support staff
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Equipment
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Single-user
instruments
(incubators,
microfuges)
Large multi-user
equipment
(ultracentrifuges,
electron microscopes)
Facilities
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Laboratories
Animal rooms
Physical Plant
Field Stations
Services
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Purchasing,
Accounting
Sponsored Research
Office
Hazardous Waste
Capacity-Building Infrastructure
How do you get it?
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Apply for individual grants
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Research grants will support people and (to
some extent) equipment
Instrumentation grants will support purchase
and/or development of equipment and
instruments
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CCLI
MRI
Leverage off of existing grants to your institution
EHR Invests in
Building Capacity
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Building educational capacity
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LSAMP
AGEP
STEP
Building research capacity
 HBCU-UP
 TCUP
 CREST
 EPSCoR
Louis Stokes Alliances for
Minority Participation (LSAMP)
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Increase the number of minority students
who enroll and complete degrees in
baccalaureate STEM programs
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Provides research experiences, academic
support services, mentoring
Bridge to the Doctorate (initiated in 2003)
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Connecting new LSAMP graduates to doctoral
degree programs
Alliances for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate
(AGEP)
Increase significantly the number of
underrepresented students pursuing
advanced studies and receiving STEM
Ph.D. degrees
 Increase significantly the number of
minorities entering the professoriate
as role models and mentors
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Talent Expansion Program
(STEP)
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Increase the number of students (U.S.
citizens or permanent residents) receiving
associate or baccalaureate degrees in
established or emerging fields within science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM)
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Type 1 proposals: full implementation efforts at
academic institutions
Type 2 proposals: support educational research
projects on associate or baccalaureate degree
attainment in STEM
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Undergraduate Program
(HBCU-UP)
and
Tribal Colleges and Universities
Program (TCUP)
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Improve the quality of STEM education
Increase participation and success in
undergraduate programs
Increase access to undergraduate research
opportunities
Centers for Research Excellence
in Science and Technology
(CREST)
Build the research competitiveness of
minority-serving institutions
 Increase the recruitment and
retention of individuals from diverse
backgrounds in STEM study and
STEM careers
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Experimental Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
Joint program of the NSF and several
U.S. states and territories
 Promotes the development of the
states' science and technology
resources through partnerships with
universities, industry, and
government, and the Federal R&D
enterprise
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Capacity-Building Infrastructure
Who has it?
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LSAMP: 34 Alliances, >450 institutions
AGEP: 22 Alliances, >100 institutions
HBCU-UP: 38 active awards to HBCUs
TCUP: 18 active awards at Tribal
Colleges and Universities
CREST: 14 active sites at minorityserving institutions
Are you at an LSAMP Institution?
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Alabama A&M University
California State University,
Dominguez Hills
California State University, Fresno
Cal Poly Pomona
Claflin University
Fayetteville State University
Fisk University
Florida A&M University
Fort Berthold Community College
Grambling State University
Hampton University
Inter American University of
Puerto Rico
Jackson State University
Kentucky State University (pending)
Langston University
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Mississippi State University
Mississippi Valley State
Morgan State University
Norfolk State University
Salish Kootenai College
Savannah State University
Texas A&M University-Corpus
Christi
Tougaloo College
United Tribes Technical College
University of Central Florida
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Puerto Rico,
Bayamon
University of Texas, El Paso
Virginia State University
Western New Mexico University
Youngstown State University
Does Your Institution
Participate in AGEP?
Alabama A&M University
 Florida A&M University
 Jackson State University
 Mississippi State University
 University of Missouri-Columbia
 University of Texas at El Paso
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Where are the current
HBCU-UP and TCUP awards?
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Claflin University
Hampton University
Jackson State
University
Jarvis Christian
College
Kentucky State
University
Langston University
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Mississippi Valley
State University
Norfolk State
University
Savannah State
University
Tougaloo College
Salish Kootenai College
United Tribes
Technical College
Biologically-Related CREST
Sites
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
 Texas A&M University, Kingsville
 California State University, Los
Angeles
 New Mexico State University
 Alabama A&M University
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Are you in an EPSCoR Jurisdiction?
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Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
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Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
US Virgin Islands
Vermont
West Virginia
Wyoming
You Don’t Have to Do It All Alone!
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Think Strategically
What do you need?
How can you get it?
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Look around your department, your institution
Talk to your colleagues, chair, dean, provost,
sponsored projects office
Try to leverage existing resources wherever
possible
Contact Info
Joanne Tornow
703-292-7134
[email protected]