Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Office Competitive - - PDF document

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Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Office

Competitive Scholarly Research Grants

Purpose

• Scholarly Growth of Faculty

– Disciplinary & creative activities that keep faculty members abreast of developments in relevant fields of knowledge – Aids in development of new areas of scholarly competence needed within the campus – Generates knowledge to inform public policy

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Purpose

• Scholarly Growth of Students

– Supports faculty-led research and creative activity involving students – Must focus on students’ scholarly development and participation in discipline level inquiry, and – Must foster their achievement levels of competence in particular discipline areas

Three options

• Summer track

May 17, 2018 - Aug. 17, 2018

• Academic year track
• Aug. 20, 2018 – May 15, 2019
• Year-round track

May 17, 2018 – May 15, 2019

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Summer track:

• Projects already underway that you

could complete with concentrated time and attention in the summer

• Research that you typically cannot do

during the regular school year

Academic year track

• More students are available for

participating in research

• Longer term projects

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Year-round track

• Longer term projects
• Seasonal projects
• Hire summer student

Proposal Guidelines

• Guidelines posted under “Faculty” tab at

http://www.uis.edu/research/

• Basic Information
• Narrative (3-5 pages)
• Budget
• Bibliography
• CV (2 pages)

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Budgets

• Up to $5,000

– Contractual

– Student support base rate of $8.25 per hour – Higher rate must be justified – may require department/college approval

– Travel

– must be itemized & based on current state rates

– Commodities or supplies

– Detailed with costs identified

– Faculty Stipend (only for summer work involving students)

– Cannot exceed the hourly rate for researcher’s salary – Cannot be duplicative of stipend or salary already being earned for same period

• f time

– Equipment

– Itemized list with accurate prices

Proposals Must Include

– Research references (if applicable) – A two-page vita

• List recent publications & activities most

relevant to the proposed project

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Funding

• Funding support comes from the

general fund

• Limited funds available
• The UIS Research Board reviews the

applications and recommends funding

• f projects up to a maximum of $5,000
• Not all proposals will be funded to the

full amount

Research Board

– Composed of individuals from various disciplines – Present information in terms understandable by colleagues from other disciplines – Do not assume Research Board is familiar with your scholarly history

• Document your scholarly history

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Submission Process

• Electronic submissions
• Must be sent as a single document in an email

attachment (Word or PDF) to ora@uis.edu

• Deans will review proposals for approval

purposes

• Research Board will review proposals for

final recommendation

• AVCRIE makes awards, as funds are

available

Submission Timeline

– Submission deadline to ora@uis.edu

• March 23, 2018 by 4:00 pm

– Dean submission deadline to Research Board

• April 4, 2018

– Notification of awards

• April 27, 2018

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Award Timelines

Track 1st spend date Mid-year report Final spend date Final report Summer June 30

• Aug. 17
• Dec. 1

Academic

• Dec. 1

May 15

• Jun. 1

Year-round June 30

• Dec. 1

May 15

• Jun. 1

Questions?

Keenan Dungey

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Institutional Effectiveness PAC 515, kdung1@uis.edu, 206-8112

Donald Long

Interim Assistant Director of Research Administration PAC 522, dlong7@uis.edu, 206-7409

Webpage http://www.uis.edu/research/

Submission deadline to ora@uis.edu

• March 23, 2018 by 4:00 pm