This announcement is being posted on behalf of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Please refer all questions to the contact persons listed at the end of the notice.

RIT is pleased to be hosting a review site for the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) FY 2004 Comprehensive Program grant competition. Scheduled for November 18 and 19, FIPSE is looking for proposal reviewers to read brief preliminary proposals for the competition. FIPSE proposals cover a broad range of disciplines and issues. Especially welcome are readers who have led grant proejcts or other initiatives, managed college programs, spearheaded curricular reform efforts, designed and taught technology enhanced courses, and the like. Most reviewers will be college or university faculty or administrators with doctoral degrees and teaching experience. Doctorates are not required if other qualifications are present. Reviewers will receive a modest stipend.

Note: Readers are not eligible to review if they are submitting an application, are involved in the preparation of an application, or would be working on or supervising a project that has applied for funding.

You may apply to be a reader at the Rochester view site through FIPSE's Web site. Go to http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE and scroll to the middle of the page, under the "News" section, to the call for readers; click there to a page asking you to identify the grant competition for which you wish to read. Click on the Comprehensive Program. When the list of review sites appear, click on RIT. The one-page application can be completed and submitted online. In late October FIPSE will confirm those readers selected.

Additionally, Joan Krejci Griggs, the Coordinator of the FIPSE Comprehensive Program, will give a workshop on the FIPSE program on November 17 from 2-4pm at RIT.

You may address questions about the review site or workshop to Gail Hyde at RIT, (585) 475-5342, ghyde@mail.rit.edu. You may address questions about the review process or orientation to Joan Krejci Griggs, (202) 502-7518, joan.griggs@ed.gov.