Eligible Applicants:
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -
Eligible institutions are MSIs that offer graduate degrees in NSF STEM areas and have enrollments of 50% or more students (based on total student enrollment) who are members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science and engineering fields: Alaska Natives,African Americans and Blacks,American Indians,Hispanic or Latin Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. Proposals are also invited from institutions of higher education that meet the 50% enrollment criterion and primarily serve populations of students with disabilities. Eligibility may be determined by reference to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the US Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/).
Funding of partnering institutions should be requested via subawards in the full proposal; separately submitted collaborative proposals will not be accepted.
CREST partnership supplemental funding requests are accepted only from current CREST Center awardees.
*Who May Serve as PI:
The Principal Investigator (PI) must hold a full-time faculty appointment at the institution submitting the proposal.