Dr. Kim worked with the National Science Foundation's Historically Black Colleges and University Undergraduate Program projects for the design, development and implementation of a progress indicator system for seven years.  He also completed a similar six year project for NSF's Tribal College and University Program,  and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium's American Indian Measures for Success (AIMS) project which was initiated in 2004.  AIMS was the first collective effort to develop and implement a key indicator system for all 36 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States. Dr. Kim successfully ran the NSF Model Institutions for Excellence monitoring project from the beginning of the program in 1995 to the program's completion in 2007. Dr. Kim is currently leading the multi-site assessment team for the National Genomics Research Initiative funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in addition to projects for individual institutions.

As principal investigator Dr. Kim has completed three large-scale long-term kindergarten to grade 12 evaluative studies for NSF's Urban Systemic Initiative, Comprehensive Partnerships for Mathematics and Science Achievement, and Rural Systemic Initiative programs from 1998 to 2004.

Dr. Kim has served as a member of a several National Advisory Panels including NASA's Office of Equal Opportunity's Minority University Research and Education Program, NSF's Expert Panel for Evaluation within a Cultural Context, NSF's Broadening Participation Initiative, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Evaluation Advisory for American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Advisory for NSF's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program Evaluation, and AAAS Think Tank for NSF's Mathematics and Science Partnership program.