Funder: National Science Foundation
Due Dates: April 29, 2025 | Last Tuesday in April, Annually Thereafter
Funding Amounts: Up to $2,000,000 per project (Transformation/Pathways tracks, up to 5 years) | Up to $1,000,000 (Mobilizing track, up to 18 months)
Summary: Supports multi-institutional efforts to broaden participation and modernize undergraduate computing education, with a focus on inclusion and scalable impact.
Key Information: Transformation and Pathways proposals require multi-institutional partnerships; Pathways must include a two-year college.
Description
The National Science Foundation’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE) program aims to transform how computing is taught at the undergraduate level. The program seeks to better prepare a diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across disciplines and to address challenging problems. Emphasis is placed on broadening participation among groups underrepresented and underserved in computing, and on creating scalable, inclusive, and equitable educational environments.
Proposals are invited across three tracks:
- Transformation: Large-scale, multi-institutional efforts to address key challenges in undergraduate computing education, such as integrating computing across disciplines, updating curricula for emerging technologies, supporting non-traditional pathways, and promoting inclusive online teaching.
- Pathways: Projects focused on effective pathways to computing degrees and careers, especially involving two-year colleges and academic-industry partnerships.
- Mobilizing: Convening stakeholders to develop a shared national vision for innovation and inclusion in undergraduate computing education (e.g., through workshops).
All proposals must include concrete plans to broaden participation in computing (BPC).
