Deadline: 1-May-22
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is now accepting proposals for its Creating Equitable Pathways to Stem Graduate Education Grants to support institutional pathways from MSIs to master’s and doctoral degree programs in astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, data science, Earth sciences, economics, engineering, marine science, mathematics, physics, and statistics.
The intent is to facilitate the creation and strengthening of diverse, inclusive, and equitable pathways to and through STEM graduate education with the recognition that student pathways are too often disrupted by systemic racism, discrimination, and bias through prevailing institutional and departmental policy and practice.
Objectives
- Support the development and enhancement of educational pathways from MSI undergraduate programs to STEM master’s and doctoral degree programs at other MSIs and/or PWIs;
- Support mutually beneficial partnerships between faculty and staff across such institutions—particularly as a key component of a broader commitment to creating stronger and more sustainable relationships between MSIs and PWIs in ways that foster joint research, expanded professional networks, and/or capacity building to serve domestic Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o students as they pursue master and doctoral degrees in STEM;
- Enhance the quality of the undergraduate STEM education and research experiences such that they create strong, evidence-based, and equitable systems that support the academic and non-academic preparation of domestic Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o students for admission, enrollment, success, and completion in STEM graduate programs;
- Enable activities that disrupt systemic racism, bias, and discrimination in institutional policy and practice as it relates to STEM education pathways to graduate study and completion; and
- Lay the groundwork for long-term investment in equitable undergraduate to graduate education pathways by other foundations, government agencies, and higher education institutions themselves.
Types of Grants
- Three types of grants will be funded:
- Planning grants to support two or more institutions to conduct internal reviews of existing barriers to student success and for analysis and planning for future systemic change partnerships/collaborations (Up to $75,000 for 1 year);
- Seed grants to support work at two or more institutions that seek to formalize existing systemic change partnerships/collaborations and launch one or more pilot initiatives (Up to $250,000 over 1-2 years); and
- Implementation grants to support work at two or more institutions that allow for the augmentation or scaling of existing systemic change partnerships/collaborations (Up to $500,000 over 2-3 years).
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $500,000 will be awarded to U.S. higher education institutions and organizations developing equitable pathways to STEM graduate education for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o Students.
Eligibility Criteria
- Institutions/organizations eligible as partners for the grant awards include:
- Non-profit two- and four-year institutions
- Institutional systems or consortia of institutions
- Professional societies and associations
- University-affiliated research centers or laboratories
For more information, visit https://sloan.org/programs/higher-education/diversity-equity-inclusion/equitable-pathways-loi