Award Date: 02/23/2022
Project Title: Creating a New Data Infrastructure for Foreign-Born Scientist and Engineers: Data, Analysis and Use
Project Performers: Coleridge Initiative, Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University; Arkansas Department for Transportation and Shared Services, Division of Information Systems- ARDATA
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Objective: The objective of this project is to establish the foundations of a national data infrastructure to address unanswered questions about foreign-born scientists and engineers in the United States, beginning with estimating the economic return on investment on U.S. training of Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers (FBSEs). The project will establish the feasibility of constructing a linked data infrastructure. Administrative data from three states on educational enrollments and completions with detailed instructional program codes will be linked to individual and firm level employment data. A baseline return on investment will be estimated.
Period of Performance: April 2022 – June 2023
Point of contact: Nathan Barrett | Coleridge Initiative | nathan.barrett@coleridgeinitiative.org
Lessons Learned

Award Date: 02/17/2022
Project Title: Building an Evidence-Based Foundation to Understand Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers’ Participation in the US Workforce
Project Performers: NORC at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
Award Amount: $649,747
Objective: The objective of this project is to fill knowledge gaps surrounding FBSEs who hold degrees or certifications other than doctorates and suggest possible models for future linkages; and demonstrate the feasibility of acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating linked data files that bring together administrative records on Federal STEM education programs with existing information
Period of Performance: February 2022 – December 2023
Point of contact: Lisa Blumerman | NORC at the University of Chicago | Blumerman-Lisa@norc.org
Lessons Learned

Award Date: 03/02/2022
Project Title: Opportunity #1 Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers and the U.S. Workforce
Project Performers: RTI International, Duke University
Award Amount: $649,998
Objective: The objective of this project is to use probability entity resolution (i.e., record linkage) to match National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) responses to employer records.
Period of Performance: March 2022 – August 2024
Point of contact: Caren Arbeit | RTI International | carbeit@rti.org

Award Date: 02/25/2022
Project Title: Clarivate and Steppingblocks Proposal to Request for Solutions (RFS) Foreign Born Scientists and Engineers and the U.S. Workforce FBSE-22
Project Performers: Clarivate, Steppingblocks
Award Amount: $600,000
Objective: The objective of this project is to build profiles of foreign-born scientists and engineers (FBSEs) so that America’s DataHub Consortium /National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (ADC/NCSES) stakeholders can conduct analyses of these profiles to learn more about this important segment of the US research workforce
Period of Performance: March 2022 – March 2023
Point of contact: Josh Schnell | Clarivate | joshua.schnell@clarivate.com