>Thank you for your responses regarding incentives for grant active faculty,
>including the return of some portion of the F & A (indirect costs) to
>faculty,  departments or colleges.  We received approximately 15 responses
>to the survey, most from public institutions.
>
>In the case of the public institution respondents, all returned some
>portion of indirect cost revenue either to the school or department and, in
>fewer cases, to the faculty.
>- Approximately 20% of the publics returned indirect costs to the faculty.
>-20% returned indirect costs to the departments.
>-All returned some indirects to the school or college (average percentage
>of return - 25%).
>
>With respect to salary relief, several respondents indicated that a portion
>of the salary relief is returned to the department, while three indicated
>the Dean retains any residual salary relief after paying for adjuncts.
>
>There were interesting responses regarding other faculty incentives.  The
>most common incentives are seed grants, cost-sharing funds, and travel
>money.  One private institution abandoned seed research grants several
>years ago because the amounts were too small to be useful and there was no
>increase in proposals submitted as a result of the seed grants.  One public
>institution set up a research initiative fund wherein a portion of F&A
>(indirect costs) can be used for expenses that cannot normally be charged
>to grants and contracts.  This money is distributed by the chair.  One
>respondent had included an extensive list of incentives with the caveat
>they have been tried with varying degrees of success:
>
>1. Establishing faculty endowments
>2. Providing seed monies for new research ideas that hold promise
>3. Subsidizing central research facilities.
>4. Providing central funding for graduate research assistants support.
>5. Providing equipment cost-sharing funds.
>6. Providing adequate release time to write proposals.
>7. Providing funds for interdisciplinary research collaborations.
>8. Modernizing facilities as needed to promote effective use of research
space.
>
>Thank you again for your responses.
>
>
>Carla Fishman, Exec. Dir.
>Office of Research & Technology Development
>SL13, Tulane University Medical Center
>1430 Tulane Avenue
>New Orleans, LA. 70118
>504-584-3694 phone
>504-584-2473 fax
>
>
>
>
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Judy Wilks
Tulane University
Office of Research
(504) 865-5272
fax (504) 862-8674

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