Hi Folks,

 

Time for a little fishing trip…  Would any of you be willing to share what you consider to be a particularly innovative internal funding program that has been especially effective in increasing the quality and quantity of proposals submitted for external funding by your faculty? 

 

Like everyone else, we at Central Michigan University are seeing increased pressure to produce and are looking to maximize our investments.  The hitch is, we already have a raft of programs, all intended to increase external funding, and I am running short of new and brilliant things to do.  Consider the following programs for faculty already in place:

 

• Research Excellence Fund Awards: Up to $120K to establish self-sustaining research centers and up to $60K for meritorious research projects.
• Faculty Insight Teams: Up to $15K over 3 years to stimulate collaborative multi-investigator research.
• President's Research Investment Fund Awards (Type A): Up to $15K to establish preliminary data necessary for external proposal, with another $10K released upon submission of proposal, and a requirement to resubmit if declined.
• President's Research Investment Fund Awards (Type B): One course release to write and submit a federal or state proposal.
• Faculty Research & Creative Endeavors Grants: Up to $4K for single investigator research, or up to $7.5K with a requirement to submit for external funding.
• Grant Development Reimbursement Awards: Reimbursement for expenses related to proposal development, typically used for travel to meet with program officers in DC.
• Research Incentive Awards: Up to one summer month of salary or one course release upon receipt of a qualifying federal grant.

 

These are all in addition to programs that support undergraduate research projects, graduate research projects, undergraduate summer scholars and dissertation writing.  New programs being contemplated include $250K National Prominence Grants for investment select departments/programs ready to “take the next step,” supplemental new faculty start up package grants, equipment grants, and tech transfer gap funding.

 

So, what else out there has proven its mettle? 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Craig

 

--

Craig Reynolds / Office of Research & Sponsored Programs /

Central Michigan University / Foust 251 / Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 /

T: 989.774.3859 / F: 989.774.3439 / E: xxxxxx@cmich.edu