See below for Middlebury College responses.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary T. Spina, CRA [SMTP:xxxxxx@CHARLIE.CNS.IIT.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 2:02 PM
> To:   xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject:      Faculty incentives?
>
> 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?
 [Farnsworth, Franci]   College policy limits summer salary to 2
months (2/9 of previous academic year base salary).

> 2)  Is any portion of your indirect cost recovery returned to the PI
> and/or
> the department?  If so, what percentage? [Farnsworth, Franci]     No --
> but we have some generous budgets for matching funds and faculty
> development to which I point when faculty complain about indirect costs.
>
> 3)  Does your institution have any other incentives for faculty?
> [Farnsworth, Franci]    The promotion and tenure review process in
> general, but particularly in the sciences, considers grant-writing a form
> of scholarship.   There are internal funding programs for student research
> assistants and research expenses -- and a budget for meeting matching
> requirements.
>
> 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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