Hello everyone --

I am trying to find out what other institutions are doing about incentives
for faculty to write/conduct research.  If you could answer the following
questions, it would be very helpful to our future direction here.

1)  At IIT, for those faculty on a nine-month academic appointment, they can
elect to take one month summer salary support from external grant funding.
Additional compensation for the summer requires one day of the academic year
charge-off for each day of the summer salary in excess of the first summer
month up to three summer months of salary (for example, if the faculty
member has one month of academic year salary covered, they can request two
summer months).  Does your institution require anything similar?  Or is
there no restriction (unless the sponsor imposes it) on the number of summer
months salary requested?

2)  Is any portion of your indirect cost recovery returned to the PI and/or
the department?  If so, what percentage?

3)  Does your institution have any other incentives for faculty?

Thanks in advance for your help!

- Mary
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Mary T. Spina, CRA
Director, Sponsored Research
Illinois Institute of Technology
3300 South Federal Street, MB301
Chicago, IL 60616-3793
Phone:  312.567.3035
Fax:    312.567.6980
email:  xxxxxx@charlie.iit.edu
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