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Session B Broader Impacts Whats the big
idea? J. Britt Holbrook Sharon Franks Center
for the Study of Interdisciplinarity Research
Proposal Development Service University of North
Texas UC San Diego britt.holbrook_at_unt.edu sfr
anks_at_ucsd.edu www.csid.unt.edu http//rapids.
ucsd.edu/  
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Britt climbing a mountain
Sharon with Wally
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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• Other scientists

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• Other scientists
• BI experts?!

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• Program officers

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• Program officers
• Committee of Visitors

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• Program officers
• Committee of Visitors
• AC/GPA

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• Program officers
• Committee of Visitors
• AC/GPA
• NSB

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• US Congress

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• US Congress
• America COMPETES Act of 2007

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• NSFs Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC)
• Who is the audience for your BI statement?
• Reviewers
• NSF
• US Congress
• America COMPETES Act of 2007
• Postdoctoral mentoring plan
• Ethics education requirement
• Report to Congress on national needs BIC helps
  meet

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H.R. 5116 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
of 2010 SEC. 214. BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW
CRITERION. Subsection (a) Goals Lists 8
specific national needs toward which BIC ought to
be directed
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H.R. 5116 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
of 2010 SEC. 214. BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW
CRITERION. Subsection (a) Goals Lists 8
specific national needs toward which BIC ought to
be directed RELEVANCE
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• H.R. 5116 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
  2010
• SEC. 214. BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERION.
• Subsection (b) Policy
• Directs NSF to institute policy changes that will
  encourage institutions and individual PIs who
  receive NSF funding to
• partner with experts to develop BIC training
  programs
• use existing models for BI implementation, and
• develop evaluation and assessment procedures for
  BIC

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• H.R. 5116 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
  2010
• SEC. 214. BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERION.
• Subsection (b) Policy
• Directs NSF to institute policy changes that will
  encourage institutions and individual PIs who
  receive NSF funding to
• partner with experts to develop BIC training
  programs
• use existing models for BI implementation, and
• develop evaluation and assessment procedures for
  BIC
• QUALITY

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H.R. 5116 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
of 2010 RELEVANCE QUALITY ACCOUNTABILITY

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• How well does the activity
• Promote teaching, training learning?
• Broaden participation of underrepresented
  groups?
• Enhance research and education infrastructure?
• Achieve broad dissemination?
• Benefit society?

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• How well does the activity QUALITY
• RELEVANCE
• Promote teaching, training learning?
• Broaden participation of underrepresented
  groups?
• Enhance research and education infrastructure?
• Achieve broad dissemination?
• Benefit society?

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NSF Dear Colleagues Letter on QUALITY It is
expected that project activities related to
broader impacts will be of the same caliber as
those addressing the intellectual merit
criterion.  They should be based on good
scholarship, and be designed to achieve clearly
stated goals and metrics, while possessing the
appropriate expertise and resources available for
implementation.  Thus, a simple listing of
outreach activities, or reference to inclusion of
research personnel who are members of
underrepresented groups, falls short of the rigor
required to satisfactorily address this
criterion. Bold added, italics in original
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• Advice on QUALITY
• You should develop a BIC statement that includes
  a description of
• the intended AUDIENCE you are targeting
• the NEEDS of that audience
• your PLAN to meet those needs, including
• PERSONNEL (show relevant expertise)
• FUNDS (demonstrate feasibility)
• your ASSESSMENT EVALUATION plan.

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• Advice on RELEVANCE
• You should develop a BIC goal that
• Revolves around something about which YOU CARE
• Is obviously RELATED TO YOUR RESEARCH
• Builds upon SOMETHING YOU ALREADY DO

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NSF asks How well does the activity promote
teaching, training, and learning? Ask
yourself What do I do that promotes teaching,
training, and learning? How can I describe that
in my BIC statement?
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• NSF asks
• How well does the activity promote teaching,
  training, and learning?
• Ask yourself
• What do I do that promotes teaching, training,
  and learning?
• Do you
• educate students?
• mentor students and/or postdocs?
• engage in informal education activities?
• think about how you learn from these activities,
  as well?
• How can I describe that in my BIC statement?

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NSF asks How well does the activity broaden
participation of underrepresented groups? Ask
yourself What do I do that broadens
participation of underrepresented groups? How
can I describe that in my BIC statement?
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• NSF asks
• How well does the activity broaden participation
  of underrepresented groups?
• Ask yourself
• What do I do that broadens participation of
  underrepresented groups?
• Do you
• include members of underrepresented groups on
  your research team?
• reach out to underrepresented groups in any of
  your education activities?
• think about reasons other than social justice to
  broaden participation?
• How can I describe that in my BIC statement?

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NSF asks How well does the activity enhance
research and education infrastructure? Ask
yourself What do I do to enhance research and
education infrastructure? How can I describe
that in my BIC statement?
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• NSF asks
• How well does the activity enhance research and
  education infrastructure?
• Ask yourself
• What do I do to enhance research and education
  infrastructure?
• Do you
• engage in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary
  activities?
• share equipment or facilities with others?
• think about how you can enhance those
  activities, and how those activities enhance your
  science?
• How can I describe that in my BIC statement?

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NSF asks How well does the activity achieve
broad dissemination? Ask yourself What do I do
to achieve broad dissemination? How can I
describe that in my BIC statement?
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• NSF asks
• How well does the activity achieve broad
  dissemination?
• Ask yourself
• What do I do to achieve broad dissemination?
• Do you
• publish outside of your field?
• participate in Open Access policy?
• blog, use social networks, present at
  conferences, etc.?
• remember the data management plan NSF is going
  to require?
• How can I describe that in my BIC statement?

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NSF asks How well does the activity benefit
society? Ask yourself What do I do to benefit
society? How can I describe that in my BIC
statement?
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• NSF asks
• How well does the activity benefit society?
• Ask yourself
• What do I do to benefit society?
• Do you
• educate?
• inform?
• think about how your research is relevant
  outside of your field?
• How can I describe that in my BIC statement?

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Dont forget about NSF! NSF insists that BI has
always been part of its mission, but Overall,
the scientific community has not fully embraced
BIC. NSF is caught between Congress and the
scientific community, but NSF needs PIs to
help make the case to Congress for funding!
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• NSF wants you!
• NSF insists that BI has always been part of its
  mission, but
• Overall, the scientific community has not fully
  embraced BIC.
• You can
• Educate yourself about BIC.
• Educate your fellow scientists and your
  institution about BIC.
• Volunteer to serve as a reviewer contact your
  program officer.
• Apply to serve as a rotator at NSF.

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• NSF wants you!
• NSF is caught between Congress and the scientific
  community, but
• NSF needs PIs to help make the case to Congress
  for funding!
• You can
• Take BIC seriously, approach it as you would
  intellectual merit.
• This applies not only when you are a proposer,
  but also
• when you are reviewing proposals, and
• when you are mentoring students and postdocs!

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• Back to the reviewers
• Things to remember
• Reviewers are extremely busy, and
• they may not read your proposal carefully!
• Many reviewers may not have a good grasp of BIC,
  and
• they may not take your BI statement seriously!
• Reviewers need your help!

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• Back to the reviewers
• How to help your reviewers
• Use the language of the RFP, where applicable.
• Use the language of BIC This proposed research
  will enhance the infrastructure for research and
  education in the following ways . This research
  will benefit society by .
• Think a bit like a member of Congress This
  proposed research will enhance scientific
  literacy by . This proposed research will
  address a pressing national need national
  security or the Gulf oil spill.
• Be thorough and specific!

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• How to help your reviewers
• Use ALL of the application there are many
  places to indicate BIs besides the 15 page
  description, including
• Your biographical sketch synergistic activities
  should be loaded with your history of engaging in
  BI activities.
• Your data management plan is another
  supplemental document in which you can emphasize
  the BI of the current proposal.
• Your description of your facilities can
  emphasize BI infrastructure at your institution
  or a partner institution.
• Your budget and budget justification should talk
  about BI.
• Your 1-page project summary should nail BIC.

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Recommended online resources http//www.csid.un
t.edu/topics/NSF-broader-impacts-criterion.html h
ttp//rapids.ucsd.edu/documents/LeverageBroader.pd
f http//coseenow.net/groups/broader-impacts/
http//www.informalscience.org/ informal
education site http//www.mpowir.org/
mentoring women in physical oceanography
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Thanks! Liesl Hotaling for organizing the
webinar series and inviting us to participate
here, as well as for helpful comments and
support. Janice McDonnell, Chris Parsons, Sage
Lichtenwalner, and COSEE NOW for helpful
discussion and guidance, as well as for hosting
the webinar. NSF. You, for allowing us to
broaden our impact. You can bet this activity
will be included in Britts NSF bio sketch!
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