Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington D.C. | April 18 2025 | Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (25-536) | The Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that inform, explore, and execute the principles, methodologies, implementations, andContinue Reading
Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington D.C. | April 17 2024 | NSF Regional Innovation Engines (24-565) | The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by accelerating key technologies, addressing regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategicContinue Reading
Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington, D.C. | March 4 2024 | Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL): Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation (RECI) (DE-FOA-0003225) | The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) is issuing this FundingContinue Reading
Waiting for Institutional Effectiveness In 2010, after completing a PhD in US History, I returned to college administration as a Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at a community college in Illinois. At the time, community colleges were aflutter over Obama’s college graduation goal to “once again have the highestContinue Reading
Disadvantaged Communities (%) by Chicago Neighborhood We previously posted on the disparities between neighborhoods in Chicago with respect to the the Justice40 initiative for disadvantaged communities. For the city as a whole, 59% of census tracts have been designated as disadvantaged communities. The legacy of redlining, disinvestment, and environmental injusticeContinue Reading
