The National Institute of Corrections Prisons Division has released a solicitation to develop a curriculum to train upper-level management of individual state correctional and prison systems. Through a 12-month cooperative agreement, the developers would produce a field-tested curriculum to better prepare agency management to use collaborative, systemic, performance-based approaches to address current challenges. The complete solicitation is attached to this blog and will be posted soon on www.grants.gov. Applications are due November 30, 2009, and a web-conference for potential bidders is scheduled for November 5 to discuss the project. Send your e-mail by noon, November 3, 2009 to mdooley@bop.gov to register for the web-conference. Link here for more information regarding cooperative agreements with NIC.