Chapter 5

### [Facts and Figures]{.smallcaps}

##### A Note on Sources of Data and Estimates

The NSF award data provided in this chapter and in the Appendix comes
from the NSF Main Database. Data for FY1997 was collected on June 17,
1998; data for FY1998, on June 23, 1999; data for FY1999, on June 16,
2000; and data for FY1994 and FY1995, on August 12 and 13, 2000.

The following categories are used to define NSF awards supporting
two-year colleges:

-   *Awards managed by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
    program.* The amount awarded by the ATE program and any other
    programs for a given fiscal year is counted as sup­port for two-year
    colleges during that fiscal year.

-   *Non-ATE awards for which the performing organization is a two-year
    college.* The total amount awarded for a given fiscal year is
    counted as support for two-year colleges during that fiscal year.

-   *Awards which do not fall into one of the categories above, but for
    which the Principal Investiga­tor (PI) is affiliated with a two-year
    college.* The total amount awarded for a given fiscal year is
    counted as support for two-year colleges during that fiscal year.

-   *Awards which do not fall into one of the categories above but which
    received co-funding from the ATE program.* Only the ATE program's
    contribution to the award for a given fiscal year is counted as
    support for two-year colleges during that fiscal year.

The categories above exclude a number of awards that benefit two-year
colleges to some extent---for example, those in which a co-PI is
affiliated with a two-year college and those in which two-year colleges
participate (and in many cases have subawards) as part of a consortium
led by a university or other organization. These other categories of
awards are excluded because NSF's databases do not offer a prac­tical
means of reliably identifying the awards or reliably estimating two-year
colleges' involvement in them. Among the large awards that are, in
general, excluded from this book's estimates of NSF support for two-year
colleges are the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
(LSAMP), the Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSI), the Urban Systemic
Initiatives (USI), and the NSF Collaboratives for Excel­lence in Teacher
Preparation (CETP). Although it is difficult to precisely determine the
support that two-year colleges have received through these programs, the
benefits are surely substantial. A conservative estimate is that 10% of
the award budgets in these programs have directly benefited two-year
colleges.

While extensive efforts have been made to identify and correct errors in
the award data included here, some information may still be missing or
incorrect. For example, in a few cases, two-year colleges are not coded
as such in the NSF Main Database and thus do not show up when two-year
college data is col­lected; and in a few other cases, institutions that
were once two-year colleges but have changed their status are still
coded as two-year colleges in the database and thus show up,
erroneously, when two-year college data is collected. In addition, some
PIs who were once affiliated with a two-year college but have moved to
another type of institution are still coded as affiliated with the
two-year college in the database, and thus show up, erroneously, when
two-year college data is collected. A number of errors of these types
have been caught and corrected, but others no doubt remain.

ATE awards, which account for much of NSF's support for two-year
colleges, are financially managed, in all but a few cases, by the
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE). For this reason, DUE receives
credit for these awards in this book's tabulation of awards by
directorate and division. However, through FY1999, the ATE program's
budget was divided between DUE and the Division of Elementary,
Secon­dary, and Informal Education (ESIE); DUE typically contributed 75%
of an award's budget, and ESIE typically contributed 25%. (Most ATE
awards involve activities at both the college and secon­dary school
levels, and the program has been coordinated jointly by DUE and ESIE
since its inception.) Therefore, ESIE's actual support for two-year
colleges is underestimated in this book, and DUE's is overestimated.

#### Acronyms of NSF Directorates, Divisions, Offices, and Programs Cited in This Chapter and the Appendix

**BIO** Directorate for Biological Sciences

**DBI** Division of Biological Infrastructure

**IID** Instrumentation and Instrument Development

**REU** Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites

**MCB** Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

**MG** Microbial Genetics

**CISE** Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering

**ANIR** Division of Networking Infrastructure and Research

**NI** Network Infrastructure

**EIA** Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities

**RI** Research Infrastructure

**IIS** Division of Information and Intelligent Systems

**IDM** Information and Data Management

**EHR** Directorate for Education and Human Resources

**DGE** Division of Graduate Education

**PFSMETE** NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics,

Engineering, and Technology Education

**DUE** Division of Undergraduate Education

**ATE** Advanced Technological Education

**CCD** Course and Curriculum Development

**CCLI-AA** Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement---Chemistry

"Adapt and Adopt"

**CCLI-A&I** Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement---Adaptation

and Implementation

**CCLI-EMD** Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement---Educational

Materials Development

**CETP** NSF Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation

**ILI** Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement

**UFE** Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement

**ESIE** Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education

**ATE** Advanced Technological Education

**IMD** Instructional Materials Development

**TE** Teacher Enhancement

**YS** Young Scholars

**ESR** Division of Educational System Reform

**RSI** Rural Systemic Initiative

**HRD** Division of Human Resource Development

**AWGSEM** Activities for Women and Girls in Science, Engineering, and

Mathematics

**LSAMP** Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

**MIE** Model Institutes of Excellence

**PAESMEM** Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics,
and

Engineering Mentoring

**REC** Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication

**NIE** Networking Infrastructure for Education

**PE** Program Evaluation

**RA** Research Activities

**ENG** Directorate for Engineering

**ECS** Division of Electrical and Communications Systems

**IS** Integrative Systems

**EEC** Division of Engineering Education and Centers

**EE** Engineering Education

**GEO** Directorate for Geosciences

**ATM** Division of Atmospheric Sciences

**AC** Atmospheric Chemistry

**EAR** Division of Earth Sciences

**E&HR** Education and Human Resources

**GC** Global Change

**MPS** Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

**AST** Division of Astronomical Sciences

**SPA** Special Programs in Astronomy

**CHE** Division of Chemistry

**BP** Bimolecular Processes

**DMR** Division of Materials Research

**Metals** Metals

**MT** Materials Theory

**OD** Office of the Director

**OIA** Office of Integrative Activities

**ARF** Academic Research Facilities

**OPP** Office of Polar Programs

**AOCS** Antarctic Oceans and Climate Systems