Common use of Sponsored Research Clause in Contracts

Sponsored Research. 17.3.1 Each year the College will provide funding to support research by regular faculty members. Two (2) categories of sponsored research funds are awarded by a competitive process: salary awards and resource grants. Applicants may request both types of funding in a single application. (a) Salary awards involving paid leaves for up to one (1) quarter during the regular academic year or salary for up to two (2) months during the summer. (b) Resource grants provide goods and services to support a project or professional agenda. Resource grants may be used to purchase materials needed for research or creative projects, attend professional meetings, publish scholarly work, or purchase specialized books, software or equipment related to a faculty member’s professional agenda. (Specialized books, software or equipment is defined as being beyond what is needed for the teaching and administration of academic programs.) 17.3.2 Individual faculty members may receive one (1) sponsored research award per academic year and up to three (3) awards within five (5) consecutive academic years. They may not receive awards more than two (2) academic years in a row. 17.3.3 There is no relationship between eligibility for paid leaves for sponsored research and professional leaves as described in Article 16. While a person could not hold both leaves simultaneously, the two (2) leaves could be held consecutively. 17.3.4 A period of service following a sponsored research award will be required upon return from a paid leave or summer award, the period of service being equal to the duration of the compensation. Any failure to serve will require prorated repayment of the monetary value of the paid leave benefit. 17.3.5 Paid leaves and summer awards must be taken within the time period for which they are granted. 17.3.6 Recipients of sponsored research funds must submit a report to the Xxxxxxx describing the results of the sponsored activity. Reports are due by the end of the academic term immediately following the award period. 17.3.7 Sponsored research funds will not be granted for the sole purpose of completing advanced degree requirements. 17.3.8 Sponsored research funds may be used only in support of professional activity other than teaching. The professional activity or scholarship may, however, be about teaching or pedagogy (and should be intended to enhance one’s teaching), but the expectation is for a product beyond a faculty member’s teaching activity. 17.3.9 The Xxxxxxx or a designee will publicize the upcoming competition, application instructions, and deadline by the beginning of fall quarter. The Faculty Agenda Committee will appoint a faculty committee, commonly called the Sponsored Research Committee, from across the curriculum to review the applications and select recipients. The Sponsored Research Committee will award only those proposals that it considers to have the highest sort of merit which the College demands of itself, based on its consideration of the extent to which proposed activities will improve the faculty member’s professional competence in scholarship at the College, and the extent of the apparent benefits of the proposed activities to the College’s curriculum, academic resources or administrative services.

Sponsored Research. 17.3.1 15.3.1 Each year the College will provide funding to support research by regular faculty members. Two Three (23) categories of sponsored research funds are awarded by a competitive process: salary research awards, seed grants and grants-in- aid. An applicant for research awards and resource or seed grants may also request a portion of grants. Applicants may request both types of -in-aid funding in if needed to complete a single applicationproposed project. (a) Salary Research awards involving paid leaves for up to one (1) quarter during in the regular academic year or salary for up to two (2) months during in the summer. (b) Resource Seed grants provide goods and services to develop projects or professional agenda that are meritorious but not far enough along to be competitive for funding from other sources. Seed grant awards are limited to two (2) weeks of regular salary. (c) Grants-in-aid to support a project or an ongoing professional agendaagenda that has already been judged from within and without the College to be of high quality. Resource grants Grants-in-aid may be used to purchase materials needed for research or creative projectsresearch, attend professional meetings, publish scholarly work, or purchase specialized books, software or equipment related to a faculty member’s professional agendawork and development. (Specialized books, software or equipment is defined as being beyond what is needed for the teaching and administration of academic programs.) 17.3.2 15.3.2 Individual faculty members may receive one (1) sponsored research award per academic year and up to three (3) awards within over any period of five (5) consecutive academic years. They may not receive awards more than two (2) academic years in a row. 17.3.3 15.3.3 There is no relationship between eligibility for paid leaves for sponsored research and professional leaves as described in Article 1614. While a person could not hold both leaves simultaneously, the two (2) leaves could be held consecutively. 17.3.4 15.3.4 A period of service following a sponsored research award paid leave will be required upon return from a paid leave or summer awardthe leave, the period of service being equal to the duration of the compensationleave. Any failure to serve will require prorated repayment of the monetary value of the paid leave benefit. 17.3.5 15.3.5 Paid leaves and summer awards must be taken within the time period for which they are granted. 17.3.6 15.3.6 Recipients of sponsored research funds must submit a report to the Xxxxxxx describing the results of the sponsored activity. Reports are due by the end of the academic term immediately following the award period. 17.3.7 15.3.7 Sponsored research funds will not be granted for the sole purpose of completing advanced degree requirements. 17.3.8 15.3.8 Sponsored research funds may be used only in support of professional activity other than teaching. The professional activity or scholarship may, however, be about teaching or pedagogy (and should be intended to enhance one’s teaching), but the expectation is for a product beyond a faculty member’s teaching activity. 17.3.9 15.3.9 The Xxxxxxx or a designee will publicize announce the upcoming competition, application instructions, competition and deadline by the beginning of fall quartereach September with instructions for submission. The Faculty Agenda Committee will appoint a faculty committee, commonly called the Sponsored Research Committee, from across the curriculum to review the applications and select recipients. The Sponsored Research Committee will award only those proposals that it considers to have the highest sort of merit which the College demands of itself, based on its consideration of the extent to which proposed activities will improve the faculty member’s professional competence in scholarship at the College, and the extent of the apparent benefits of the proposed activities to the College’s curriculum, academic resources or administrative services.