Improving Mentorship in STEM Higher Education Act

This bill would let the National Science Foundation give competitive awards to colleges, nonprofits, and groups of them to improve mentoring for faculty, graduate researchers, and postdoctoral researchers. Funded projects could build mentoring skills, research mentoring methods, train researchers in cultural competencies, and pay for related outreach. The Foundation would give special consideration to minority-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges, rural-serving institutions, and emerging research institutions. The bill authorizes $5,000,000 for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 and requires a report to Congress within 5 years on how well the program works. It also adds reporting processes for harassment, discrimination, and other misconduct to an existing America COMPETES Act provision.

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Sponsors

• Jennifer L. McClellan Democrat sponsor
• 6 cosponsors