As a federally designated HSI, City Tech is eligible for grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The HSI Division of the USDE provides grant funding to institutions of higher education to assist efforts to strengthen institutional programs, improve facilities, and develop services as well as to expand the educational opportunities for Hispanic Americans and other underrepresented populations. The NSF Improving Undergraduate Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Program focuses on enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education at HSIs and seeks to increase the retention and graduation rates of students pursuing associate or baccalaureate degrees in STEM. A list of recent HSI grants awarded to City Tech is below.
| Project Title | Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation | |||
| Information Systens meet CUltural COmpetencies (IS-CUCO): Enabling data-driven decision-making in underserved Hispanic populations | 2021 | NSF CISE-MSI Program Award#: 2131291 PI: Benito Mendoza IS-CUCO OpenLab Site | City Tech Award: $191,132.40 |
| Building Capacity: Enhancing Undergraduate STEM Education by Enhancing Transfer Success | 2019 | National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Pamela Brown IUSE OpenLab site | $1,499,767 |
| REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST: Expanded Opportunities | 2016 | REU Site Reginald Blake | $607,580 |
| US Department of Education | |||
| STEM Success Collaborative: Advancing Equity for Hispanic and Low-Income Students through an Innovative Model of Academic, Student Support, and Institutional Resource Integration | 2021 | Title V U.S. Department of Educations Proposal: P031S210228 Project Director: Shelley Smith | $2,999,983 |
| “Digital Pathways” Title III HSI-STEM and Articulation Grant (lead partner BMCC), | 2016 | Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) program of the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, #P031C160132, $6M ($713K earmarked for City Tech) | $713,000 |
| Opening Gateways to Completion: Open Digital Pedagogies for Student Success in STEM | 2015 | Title V Cooperative Arrangement Jonas Reitz | $3.2M |
| Curricular and Strategic Changes in Mathematics and Computer Science to Enhance STEM Education | 2015 | Minority Science and Engineering Improvement (MSEIP) Sandie Han | $736,438 |
| A Living Laboratory: Revitalizing General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology | 2010 | Title V—Strengthening Hispanic Serving Institutions Jonas Reitz, Maura Smale, Matthew Gold Living Lab OpenLab site | $3.4M |
| NASA | |||
| New Horizons in Space Additive Manufacturing and STEM Education | 2016 | EONS-2014/MUREP (MOO) Gaffar Gailani ATE Website | CMDAM OpenLab site | $453,129 |
| Achieving Proficiency in Engineering Research and STEM Education through NASA Initiatives | 2010 | CIPAIR Gaffar Gailani | $145,703 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | |||
| A Cultural History of Digital Technology | 2016 | Humanities Projects at Hispanic Serving Institutions Anne Leonhardt | $99,998 |
| Making Connections: Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology | 2014 | Faculty Development at High Hispanic Enrollment Institutions (HHE) Geoff Zylstra | $99,958 |
| Comparative Perspectives: Illness, Health and Healing | 2013 | Faculty Development at HHEs Mary Sue Donsky (Barbara Grumet) | $74,986 |
| Water and Work | 2008 | Faculty Development at HHEs Richard Hanley | $29,959 |
| Retentions and Transfigurations: Social Change and Technological Progress in Five NYC Neighborhoods | 2006 | Faculty Development at HHEs Marta Effinger-Critchlow | $30,000 |
