Grant Proposal Seed Money

 

Eligibility: All CSUSM tenure-track Unit 3 employees may apply.

Purpose: These funds have been earmarked by the Provost to provide support for faculty to develop proposals for external funding. The funds are designed to assist faculty in such activities as:

• refining ideas

• creating plans and designs

• trying out methodologies

• conducting pilot or preliminary activities

• reworking "near miss" grant proposals that received encouraging review but weren't funded

Proposal areas may include research, scholarly activities, creative activities, and/or pedagogy. Normally, up to a total of $3,000 may be requested. This may be used for supplies, equipment, travel, stipends, student assistants, grant writing assistance, or other needs associated with proposal development.

Process:  Applications will be reviewed throughout the year. The Associate Vice President for Research will invite three faculty from different disciplines each semester who are among CSUSM's most active grant writers to evaluate the applications. This group will evaluate the seed fund requests based on judged probability that the project will be successful in obtaining external funding. The recommended proposals will be forwarded to the Associate Vice President for Research. Requests may be fully or partially funded in order to seed a variety of projects.

The proposal process is administered by the Associate Vice President for Research (AVPR); the awards process is administered jointly by the Office of Graduate Studies and Research, in Academic Affairs, and the CSUSM Foundation. Funds should be spent within one year of the award announcement. Extensions may be granted at the discretion of the AVPR. A final report to the AVPR will document how GPSM awards were spent, and will include a copy of the proposal for external funding on which the GPSM request was based.

How to apply: Submit GPSM APPLICATION FORM (Word document) to Linda Collins (e-mail preferred), Office of Graduate Studies and Research, CRA 5210. If you have any questions, call X4066 or e-mail lcollins@csusm.edu.

 

since July 25, 2007