National Science Foundation
Computer and Information Sciences & Engineering (CISE)
Arlington, VA 22230

November 9, 2004

Dear Colleague:

NSF's CISE Directorate is expanding and distributing opportunities for innovative education projects and now welcomes educational proposals to most program solicitations. Educational projects may develop innovative curricular materials or undertake other activities that have the potential greatly to improve higher education in CISE-related areas. Projects may be in stand-alone proposals or components of research and education proposals. Curriculum development activities must include strong justification of the need for the new materials and must include plans for disseminating them to the community and for evaluating their effectiveness.

Following is a list of the CISE programs where educational proposals may currently be submitted. Several additional program solicitations will be posted soon, including ones in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. Consult the CISE web site at http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ for details.

If you have questions about a specific program, please contact the program officers listed in the program solicitation. If you have general questions, please contact Anita LaSalle (alasalle@nsf.gov).

Sincerely,

Gregory R. Andrews
Director, Division of Computer and Networked Systems