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Collaboratives to Integrate Research and Education (CIRE)
 
The information listed below is not current and has been archived.
 

The CIRE activity was intended to establish long-term research and education relationships between minority-serving institutions and NSF-supported facilities and centers. The long-term objective was to formalize and institutionalize these developing relationships by negotiating formal institution-to-institution agreements for continuation and support of the relationships.

CIRE proposals were allowed to request support for a maximum period of 3 years, to be funded at a maximum of $500,000 per year. Institutions were expected to provide reasonable assurances that the efforts and activities generated through CIRE would continue at a comparable level following conclusion of NSF funding of the award.

CIRE proposals were expected to be in compliance with all applicable equal opportunity laws and existing institutional policies. CIRE awards were expected to achieve significant increases in the number and quality of interactions between participants from the NSF-supported facility or center, and faculty and students at the minority-serving institution, and result in increasing graduate SEM degrees for underrepresented minorities, and networking and the dissemination of new knowledge.

In general, support was provided for activities that facilitate development of formal long-term research and education relationships between NSF-supported facilities and centers, and minority-serving institutions, by funding collaborative activities. Funded activities might have include (among others) development of collaborative and mutually beneficial research and education projects, and exchanges of faculty and students. The former could have included infrastructure enhancements at the minority-serving institution, if needed to support the proposed collaborative activity. It should be noted that, CIRE was not a general infrastructure program for minority-serving institutions.

Proposals had to clearly identify and address any administrative, education and research infrastructure changes needed to achieve CIRE objectives.

Pre-college and bridging programs were not eligible for CIRE support. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and well-prepared high school students could have been part of the proposed activity.

CIRE proposals had to be submitted by Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), and Tribally-Controlled Colleges (TCCs). Each CIRE proposal had to be submitted in collaboration with (and include a subcontract to) one or more NSF-supported facilities/centers or similar NSF-supported efforts.

~ Workshop Information ~
CIRE Workshops on Establishing Long-Term Research and Education Programs (Prior Solicitation)
 
~ Historical Documents ~
Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education (NSF 98-47)
 
~ CIRE Awards ~
Proposal # Institution
9872689 University of Perto Rico, Humacao U Col
9872694 Savannah State College
9872701 North Carolina A&T; State University
9872731 Clark Atlanta University
9872740 San Francisco State University
9872753 Morehouse College
9872777 CUNY City College
9981795 University of Texas-Brownsville
9981939 Bowie State University
9982872 Florida A&M; University

 
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