Grant Recipient/Administrator: PASSHE
Scholarship Fund Administrator: PASSHE Foundation
PI: Dr. N. Bharathan, IUP
Performing Organization: CETP-PA Project
Evaluation: IUP Center for Educational and Program Evaluation
- Establishes sub-awards and sub-agreements
- Conducts grant accounting and financial reporting
- Provides guidance and technical assistance to PASSHE Foundation, et. al., regarding program requirements
PASSHE Foundation Office
- Sets application deadlines in consultation with PI
- Receives, records applications
- Forwards applications to PI
- Notifies Noyce recipients, ensures signed agreements with recipients and sends awards to their university
- Ensures recipients maintain eligibility status
- Monitors compliance with teaching placement and related reporting
- Collects funds in case of defaults and determines repayment process
Principal Investigator
- Chairs recruitment and selection process
- Receives applications from Foundation Office
- Convenes Scholarship Committee to screen and rank applicants
- Forwards list of awardees to Foundation Office
- Ensures Centers maintain contact with recipients
- Ensures recipients meet post-certification requirements
- Ensures conduct and completion of evaluation process
- Coordinates ongoing mentoring and support through M/S Centers
- Prepares annual report for NSF, provides data for inclusion in national data base, participates in NSF meetings, as may be requested
Science and Math Center Director, or Designee
- Disseminates scholarship announcement information
- Serves as point of contact for applicants: assists in application process
- Reviews completed application and forwards to Foundation Office
- Provides support and mentoring to Noyce recipients during academic years
- Provides on-line support and mentoring during induction years leading to tenure, as appropriate
- Provides teaching materials and resources, as appropriate
- Provides ongoing professional development and Act 48 credits
- Facilitates contacts with appropriate Urban Seminar program coordinators, as appropriate
- Appropriate Dean or their designee serves as Noyce Contact person on each university campus
CareerLink Offices
A statewide career transition service involving career counseling and placement programs 96 local offices
- Develops awareness of Noyce opportunity to regional directors, project staff and local counselors
- Advertises and recruits Robert Noyce applicants through brochures to targeted regions and office locations
- Provides Noyce information on the CareerLink website
- Provides Noyce application packets to rapid response staff
- Assists in completion and submission of applications
Center for Educational and Program Evaluation (CEPE)
Grant evaluator to assess attainment of project s goals
CEPE Responsibilities
Qualitative and Quantitative data will be collected through:
- Information on applications
- Participant self-reporting
- Surveys to participants
- Student teaching evaluations of participants
- Induction year evaluations of participants
- Surveys to school district employers
PASSHE Foundation Responsibilities
Monitors progress of teachers in meeting obligations
- Surveys to awardee and awardee s employer
- Prepares annual internal report
Project Director Responsibilities
Provides information required by NSF for the national evaluation and other reports
