CPGE Graduate Research Assistant Support

  • 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