FIPSE- Deadline July 29, 2010

Link to full announcement:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14235.pdf

For more information, contact: Levenia.Ishmell@ed.gov
Program Manager:

Levenia Ishmell
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
U.S. Department of Education,
1990 K Street, NW., room 6154, Washington, DC 20006-8544
Telephone: (202) 502-7500

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION



Office of Postsecondary Education


Overview Information Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)—Comprehensive Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010.


Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.116B.
DATES: Applications Available: June 14, 2010.


Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 29, 2010.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: September 27, 2010.


Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The Comprehensive Program supports innovative grants and cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education. It supports reforms, innovations, and significant improvements of postsecondary education that respond to problems of national significance and serve as national models.


Priorities: Under this competition we are particularly interested in applications that address the following priorities.


Invitational Priorities: For FY 2010, these priorities are invitational priorities. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not give an application that meets these invitational priorities a competitive or absolute preference over other applications.


These priorities are:
Invitational Priority 1.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in centers of excellence for teacher preparation as described in section 242 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).


Invitational Priority 2.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in university sustainability initiatives as described in section 881 of HEA.

Invitational Priority 3.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in rural development initiatives for rural-serving colleges and universities as described in section 861 of HEA.


Invitational Priority 4.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in initiatives to assist highly qualified minorities and women to acquire doctoral degrees in fields where they are underrepresented as described in section 807 of HEA.


Invitational Priority 5.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in modeling and simulation programs as described in section 891 of HEA.


Invitational Priority 6.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in higher education consortia to design and offer
interdisciplinary programs that focus on poverty and human capability as described in section 741(a)(11) of HEA.


Invitational Priority 7.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in innovative postsecondary models to improve
college matriculation and graduation rates, including activities to facilitate transfer of credits between institutions of higher education (IHEs), alignment of curricula on a State or multi-State level
between high schools and colleges and between two-year and four-year postsecondary programs, dual enrollment, articulation agreements, partnerships between high schools and community colleges, and partnerships between K–12 organizations and colleges for college access and retention programs.


Invitational Priority 8.
Under this priority, we are particularly interested in activities to develop or enhance educational partnerships and cross-cultural cooperation between postsecondary educational institutions in the United States and similar institutions in Haiti.



I. Award Information

Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds:
$27,307,000.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$500,000–$750,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$738,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 37.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.


III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs or combinations of IHEs and other public and private nonprofit institutions and agencies.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This program does not require cost sharing or matching.