The
institution shall require that each recipient of the scholarship or stipend accepts
the terms of the scholarship or stipend and agrees to provide the institution
with annual certification of employment and up-to-date contact information and
to participate in surveys provided by the institution of higher education as part
of an evaluation program. Monitoring the compliance of scholarship and stipend
recipients with respect to their service requirements will be the responsibility
of the institution of higher education receiving the award. It is expected
that failure to satisfy the academic requirements of the program or to complete
the service requirement will result in forfeiture of the scholarship or stipend
award with repayments pro-rated accordingly to reflect partial service completed.
The institution is responsible for collecting the repayment amounts in accordance
with P.L. 107-368, SEC. 10 (g). All forfeited scholarship or stipend funds, less
grantee administrative costs associated with collection of the repayment not to
exceed 5% of the forfeited amount, will be returned to the United States Treasury. The
institution is expected to establish procedures that ensure compliance with the
service requirement with allowances for extreme hardship or other circumstances
for which it is not in the best interests of the school district or not feasible
for the scholarship/stipend recipient to fulfill the service obligation.
The institution may establish procedures for waiving or suspending repayment of
scholarships or stipends in cases of extreme hardship or other circumstances that
would preclude the fulfillment of the service obligation.
Eligible
institutions must provide evidence of exemplary teacher preparation efforts to
ensure that scholarship and stipend recipients become successful science and mathematics
teachers in elementary or secondary schools. Successful proposals also
will provide evidence of functioning partnerships between institutions of higher
education and school districts and an infrastructure that is supportive of new
teachers. All projects are expected to include an evaluation plan for measuring
the impact of the project and effectiveness of proposed strategies in attracting,
preparing, and retaining STEM individuals in teaching careers as well as the effectiveness
of the Noyce scholarship/stipend recipients as teachers. The evaluation
plan should include a mechanism for tracking the scholarship/stipend recipients
as they fulfill their teaching obligation and a method for collecting demographic
data on the scholarship and stipend recipients. In addition to the project-specific
evaluation, all projects will be expected to cooperate with an NSF third party
evaluation of program impact that will require data collection. It is expected
that individual project evaluation, as well as the overall program evaluation,
will contribute to the knowledge base of effective strategies for attracting and
retaining effective teachers with strong STEM content knowledge.
Proposers
may wish to explore the resources related to K-12 teacher education available
at MSPnet, http://hub.mspnet.org/,
an electronic learning community for the Math and Science Partnership
(MSP) program. Information about current awards funded under the Robert
Noyce Scholarship Program resources can be found at the Division of Undergraduate
Education website: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/DUE/