2YR Goal
National Science Foundation

Improve representation in the scientific enterprise

Goal leaders

Alicia Knoedler

Office Head

Office of Integrative Activities (NSF)

Sylvia Butterfield

Assistant Director (Acting)

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (NSF)

To achieve

Improve representation in the scientific enterprise by making changes that will lead to an increase in proposal submissions from underrepresented and underserved applicants and communities.

By September 30, 2023, NSF will increase both the number and proportion of proposals received from underrepresented and underserved 1) investigators and 2) institutions by 10 percent over the FY 2020 baselines.