[Fwd: FIPSE is BACK] (fwd)

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

for general information

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:14:02 -0800
From: David S. Tartakoff <dst@uic.edu>
To: JLU@hep.anl.gov
Subject: [Fwd: FIPSE is BACK]

Any interest? David

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> Is anyone interested in this?  It is not clear to me at what level (i.e.
> campus, college, dept,...) the proposals are made.
>
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> Henri
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> Subject: FIPSE is BACK
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> From: Luis Vargas <lrvargas@UIC.EDU>
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> Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
> Comprehensive
> Program competition for Fiscal year 2000 is Back, and with more funding
> than in the past.  The 2000 competition holds great promise.  The US
> Department of Education is looking for good postsecondary education
> reform
> projects.  The deadline to submit your preliminary application is
> February
> 11, 2000.
>
> The agenda for the Comprehensive Program is broad.  The US Department of
> Education is encouraging all ideas to improve access to and the quality
> of
> postsecondary education.  The following topics are not meant to limit,
> but
> rather to stimulate ideas:
>
> 1. Access, retention, and completion
> 2. Improving campus climates for learning
> 3. Curricular and pedagogical reform
> 4. Controlling costs: making more productive use of resources to improve
>   teaching and learning
> 5. Faculty development
> 6. Improving K-12 teaching and schools
> 7. Dissemination of successful innovations.
>
> Proposal are judge on quality.  No agenda topic is automatically favored
> over other in the selection process.
>
> The competition supports innovative reform projects that hold promise as
> models for the resolution of important problems in postsecondary
> education.
> Visit FIPSE's Web Site to read abstracts of currently funded projects.
>
> www.ed.gov/FIPSE
>
> Other Fiscal Year 2000 FIPSE Competitions
>
> European Community/United States of America Joint Consortia for
> Cooperation
> in Higher Education and Vocational Education
>
> Grants will be made jointly by FIPSE and the European Commission to
> facilitate the formation of educational consortia of America and
> European
> institutions.  The consortia will be organized to promote educational
> collaboration and student exchange.
>
> Application Deadline:  March 17, 2000
>
> Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships
> Grants will be made to support partnerships among colleges and
> universities, employers, technology companies, and other relevant
> organizations to create postsecondary programs on a national or regional
> scale that deliver distance education anytime and anywhere.
>
> Application Deadline:  March 3, 2000
>
> Please feel free to contact me if you need more information or a set of
> guidelines for these competitions.