As a part of our campus-wide planning process, each administrative unit has
been asked to profile itself, including mission, staffing, services, and
expenses, both ours and ours compared with other institutions providing
similar services.  I'm hoping some of you have examined your pre-award offices
in a similar fashion and could send me comparison figures before next Tuesday.

In our case, we're talking about services including:  grantsmanship training
for around 1500 faculty, maintenance of a 3,000 program paper/computer
database of applications and guidelines, provision of the file information to
faculty,  individual consultation with faculty on developing project concepts,
IRIS/SPIN searches, publication of a monthly faculty newsletter, maintenance
of a small library with "how to" publications, subscriptions to common
publications, review of proposal drafts upon request.  Staffing includes both
professional and clerical support.  Infrastructure includes the normal desk
computers, telephones, xerox, fax, travel, supplies.

If, as I'm guessing, few of us have segmented this portion of activities away
from the whole, let alone tallied the dollars, then guesstimates are welcome,
too.  Please include the number of faculty you serve.  If the info comes, and
in a useable format, I'll summarize to the list.  Thanks in advance.
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Celia S. Walker
Assistant to VP Research      INTERNET:xxxxxx@vines.colostate.edu
Colorado State University     TEL:303/491-6355   DESK:303/491-7784
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