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FIPSE FY 2007 Comprehensive Program Update
The U.S. Department of Education recently reported that the budget for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Comprehensive Program has been unexpectedly reduced. The Department now only expects to fund about 17 Comprehensive Program awards of $200,000 each this year.
The agency only intends to give 1 month to respond to the new program announcement due out by late March/early April.
The Department released tentative invitational priorities which are expected to be contained in the forthcoming announcement. The Department does not give applications that meet these invitational priorities a competitive or absolute preference over other applications.
Invitational Priorities:
Invitational Priority 1:
Projects encouraging higher levels of access, persistence, and completion of graduation requirements for higher education.
Invitational Priority 2:
Projects aligning curriculum on a state or multi-state level between high schools and colleges, and between two-year and four-year postsecondary programs, to ensure continuing academic progress and transferability of credits (note - not UIC partnering with local community colleges but a regional alignment).
Invitational Priority 3:
Projects improving the mathematics and science proficiency of postsecondary students including preservice math and science teachers.
Invitational Priority 4:
Projects to enable postsecondary students, including preservice teachers, to achieve proficiency or advanced proficiency or postsecondary institutions to develop programs in one or more of the less commonly taught languages: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and languages in the Indic, Iranian, and Turkic language families.
Invitational Priority 5:
Projects designed to disseminate successful strategies to achieve the goals of any of the above invitational priorities serving postsecondary education.
The Comprehensive Program is the central grant competition of FIPSE. Information about last year's FIPSE program can be found at http://www.ed.gov/programs/fipsecomp/index.html.
Questions regarding this announcement can be directed to Mr. Athony Halford in OVCR at 312-996-7036 or ahalford@uic.edu
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