Response to list serve regarding faculty incentives Judy Wilks 14 May 1999 15:18 EST
>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 > > > > ******************************************************* Judy Wilks Tulane University Office of Research (504) 865-5272 fax (504) 862-8674 ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================