SUMMARY: The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE): Directorate for STEM Education Program seeks to improve and broaden interest and engagement in STEM education by bringing recent advances in STEM knowledge and research into undergraduate learning environments.
For FY25, there were two tracks that institutions could develop a project focused on, each with three different levels of funding and periods of performance:
- Track 1: Engaged Student Learning
These projects must show the potential of increasing student learning and engagement in STEM fields, such as through new and innovative teaching methods, faculty development opportunities, or co-curricular learning opportunities with a STEM focus.
- Track 2: Institutional and Community Transformation
These projects fund systemic change initiatives at the departmental, institutional, or multi-institutional level using evidence-based practices that are based on a theory of change that incorporates deliberate interventions in undergraduate STEM learning environments.
DEADLINE: Applications for the Engaged Student Learning Track, Levels 2 and 3, as well as projects for the Institutional and Community Transformation Track, were due July 16. Applications for Level 1 projects for the Engaged Student Learning Track and Capacity-Building projects for the Institutional and Community Transformation Track are due January 21, 2026. Future deadlines for these tracks occur on the third Wednesday of July and the third Wednesday of January annually.
ELIGIBILITY: All institutions of higher education are eligible to apply.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082