NSF announces name changes to education directorate

NSF has announced changes to the names of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Division of Human Resource Development. To more accurately reflect and communicate the values and totality of the agency’s work with STEM education, including supporting Americans from every background, in each state, who have the potential to participate in STEM, the directorate will now be known as the Directorate for STEM Education, or EDU, and the division will be known as the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, or EES. All name changes are effective immediately and do not affect the work done by EDU.