Darling agreed to meet with associate deans in various colleges to discuss the issue. Johnson will send council members a list of eligibility requirements for internal grants in the College of Medicine. Semel indicated that the Spelman Rockefeller Child Research grant program has been opened up to clinical faculty this year. He will report competition results to the council in the spring. It should continue to do that.
Statistics show that assistant professors are getting a large share of the awards.
In order to make the review of proposals easier, applications from assistant professors and assistant research scientists might be reviewed separately from other applications. Identical procedures and criteria must be used by all four review committees. Evaluate all proposals on the same criteria. Darling and Hichwa will draft a formal proposal of changes to recommend. Researchers should not be unduly constrained by DEOs.