Matthew Cover pulled numbers I was going to look for on this year’s graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF):
Congrats to the 13 current Cal State University students who were awarded NSF GRFPs!! For context, that is fewer awards to the largest 4-year system in the country (0.5million) than Stanford- 81, MIT- 76, Princeton- 34, Northwestern- 30, Yale- 26, Chicago- 22, Rice- 22, Duke- 20
I’ve been talking this a few years now, so why stop?
You know, there are some problems in academia that you recognize are going to be slow to fix because they rely on cultural changes.
This is not one of them.
The NSF could dictate how awards are going to be distributed. But the agency seems unwilling to have that conversation.
Update, 5 April 2021: Megan Barkdull ran some numbers for this year’s awards. She focused on institutional “prestige” and found, unsurprisingly, that the Ivy league universities and their peers gobble up most of the awards. Her full analysis is here.
Related posts
The NSF GRFP problem, 2020 edition
Fewer shots, more diversity?
The NSF GRFP problem continues
External links
NSF Graduate Fellowships are a part of the problem
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