The move from the legislative to the executive branch has given him a new perspective on the challenges of implementing congressionally mandated education initiatives at NSF, Chubin says, but also gives the agency a pair of "fresh eyes" in evaluating its educational programming.
The responsibilities of the year-old division, Chubin says, are twofold: It administers several primarily research-based education programs and evaluates and monitors the entire portfolio of the agency's 200-plus educational initiatives, ex- ercising a sort of "quality control."
One example of a program Chubin's division administers is Application of Advanced Technologies (AAT). AAT's general mission, says Chubin, is "to bring technology to bear on as many NSF educational programs as possible."
On a broader scale, Chubin says, his division looks at all of the agency's education programs with an eye toward whether they fulfill performance objectives and NSF's overall educational goals.
"When NSF lends its imprimatur to something ...
