Purpose: To help faculty advance faculty research projects and to give students paid opportunities
to engage in research activities that support faculty research.
Eligibility:
All tenured/ tenure-track faculty and full-time lecturers (including .8s) in CPGE
are eligible for Research Assistant support. Faculty who receive start-up funds are
not eligible to apply until their start-up funds have been expended.
Recipients must submit a report due every semester documenting what they had the research
assistant do, how they used the research assistants, and how that helped them advance
their research/scholarly writing/grant-writing.
[Report deadlines: Fall reports due February 10th; Spring reports due June 10th; Summer
reports due September 1st]
Support Amount: Faculty will be awarded research assistant support for up to 10 hours per week each
semester.
Selection Criteria: Priority goes to probationary tenure-track faculty.
Description of Research Assistant responsibilities (25%)
Criticality of Research Assistant services (25%)
Mentoring and monitoring Research Assistants (25%)
Impact on RSCA Productivity (25%)
Selection Committee: The Associate Dean for Academics and the Department Chairs comprise the selection
committee, which will make recommendations to the Dean who will make the final determination
for the award.
Applications Due: Fall applications due: July 15th; Spring applications due: December 15th; Summer
applications due: April 15th