Our Sponsored Research Office reports to the Dean of Faculty and supports faculty-initiated grants that support faculty scholarship and academic program, regardless of whether Advancement “counts” it as a “gift” (and thus enters it into their stewardship database); in this role, we support most federal grants that involve a PI who teaches our undergraduates (thus NSF-MRI which are usually/often quite “institutional” or NSF-REUs, etc – but NOT the NEA grants sought by our literary magazine).        We do not track actual funding to the college (or grant expenses); that’s Controller’s office domain.  Our reports are based on award letters.          The college’s “gift” definition is pretty broad; most private funding for faculty research ends up “counting” as gifts, unless there is a “deliverable” or compliance issues.     These “gifts” are still called grants and show up on the SRO reports.               The Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations handles all institutional grant-seeking, including federal proposals that support major institutional programs or units that are broadly institutional rather than faculty-driven.      They too handle “gifts” that must be tracked and stewarded like grants; and their reports also are based on award letters, not financial data.        It still is a bit messy.  

 

 

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research

Davis Family Library 223
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Tel:  802-443-5889
Email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu

http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/support/grants

 

 

 

 

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