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I think "revision rate" might also be a useful index for assessing SRO usefulness.  The data may not be the easiest to obtain.  However, if your office is involved in educating researchers on the grants process and/or improving the quality of proposals that go out, one should expect awards to arrive with fewer intervening revisions.  The math showing the significant value of lowering revision rates should be presented.  [Use only data on funded projects; a lower rate should not derive from unfunded proposals that were so dismal no revision was even considered!]

Charlie Hathaway

At 10:01 AM 8/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>What I do is present the history of numbers of grants sought and awarded in
>recent years.  You can reasonably be expected to improve on the former, which
>should pull up the latter.  By averaging dollars requested and awarded, you can
>then suggest the funding that might flow from your work.  But use disclaimers!
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>Donna Berger <xxxxxx@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> on 08/23/99 09:21:29 AM
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>Our office (pre-award) was established to assist faculty and the academic
>area with grant proposal development several years ago. Last Friday in a
>meeting with my supervisor, I was asked to give an estimate of monetary
>goals (awards to be made) for the 1999-2000 academic year. (We have never
>been asked to provide this information before.) I would appreciate input as
>to how to respond to this request. I explained that I would first have to
>have input from the academic deans and department heads before I could
>provide an estimate. However, even when I do get feedback from them, I'm
>not sure how I would make a projection. Any advice you could give me would
>be very much appreciated. My supervisor wants an answer from me post haste.
>You can respond to me directly at xxxxxx@maristb.marist.edu
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