Folks . . . one of our faculty received a notification from The Grant
Institute for a "Professional Grantwriting Workshop" - June 1 - 3, 2005
to be held at another sister l university.  The "To" line lists
"Administrator" at that Institute.  The faculty who received the
announcement was listed in the "blind copy" line.  He wanted to know if
it was legit, since the information did not come from our Sponsored
Programs Office.  I called my counterpart at the university where this
workshop was to be held, and she knew nothing about it.  As it turns out
this company rented the space in the campus student center.  No one on
campus is "sponsoring" the event.  My colleague was  surprised that the
student center agreed to host it, since her OSP office provides  similar
training at no cost to faculty and students.  The Grant Institute is
charging $597 tuition which includes all materials and certificates.
Anyone heard of The Grant Institute?  They can be found at
http://www.thegrantinstitute.com/index.php.  The one thing that
concerns me is that in the email that went out from this company they
list the name of university in the subject line " Professional
Grantwriting Workshop - name of institution -  June 2005" which, while
it does not say "sponsored by" makes it look like that university is
sponsoring the event, which to me, lends credibility to the workshop . .
. when in fact, it is just the location for the workshop, with no
sponsorship . . . does this strike anyone else as somewhat misleading?
Jackie

Jacqueline Givens
Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road, #0111
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144-5591
PHONE:  (770) 423-6036
FAX:  (770) 499-3620
WEBSITE:  http://www.kennesaw.edu/osp

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