Faculty Early Career Development Program

(CAREER)

Joanne TornowBIO/MCB

Chair, CAREER Coordinating Committee

CAREER Program Goals

Provide stable funds to support the early career-development activities of outstanding teacher-scholars in the context of the mission of their organization

Build a firm foundation to sustain integrated research and educational activities beyond the life of the initial award

Increase participation of those traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering

CAREER: NSF’s Most Prestigious Award for Junior Faculty

Size and duration of CAREER awards are commensurate with the award’s prestige Five year duration $400,000 minimum ($500,000 in BIO)

Source of NSF’s PECASE awardees (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers)

PECASE

Presidential award recognizing 60 outstanding junior scientists and engineers annually who have exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge

Participating agencies: NSF, NIH, NIST, USDA, DOE, DOD, NASA, NOAA, and VA

NSF’s awardees are chosen from among the newest group of CAREER awardees

History of CAREER

Prestige grants PFF, PYI, NYI

Starter grants RIA

1995CAREER

(Faculty Early Career Development Program) Integration of Research and Education

Pre-1995Two types of young investigator awards

Both focused on research

Implementation of CAREER

Leader Role Model Nation’s most outstanding teacher-

scholars Critical Mass

Majority of successful new faculty expected to hold CAREER award

Multiple implementation strategies are being used within NSF

Implementation of CAREER

Different implementation strategies lead to: Differences in # proposals received Differences in % of program funds

allocated to CAREER Differences in % of junior faculty

supported by CAREER vs. regular grants

CAREER at NSF

NSF-wide CAREER success rates are declining (23% in FY’00 to 19% in FY’04)

Total number of CAREER proposals submitted have increased nearly 30% in last five years

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FY'03 1 102 18 88 21 111 36 9 386

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CAREER Demographics (NSF-wide)

Participation by female PIs increasing slightly (21% in FY’00 to 25% in FY’05)

Participation by minority PIs increasing (7.3% in FY’00 to 10% in FY’05)

~ 16% of proposals were submitted by institutions in EPSCoR states

~ 4% of proposals were submitted by minority-serving institutions

In Conclusion

The CAREER program is a major activity at NSF (over 3700 CAREER awards made to date, 160 PECASE awards), and is continuing to grow

Future Activities: COV review of CAREER External evaluation of the impact of

CAREER PECASE awardee colloquium