If this is designed to make special grant proposals more competitive, it makes sense. This is a move to distribute some of the 1.6 million dollars, similar to the infrastructure funds under the HERC system, for the development of educational technology that is noncompetitive. If this happens, the dollars on the competitive side will go down. On page 6 there are eleven items that are extremely important for writers of proposals to address. Please encourage those writing proposals to use this as a checklist to make sure each item is covered and if not, is strong enough to get funded without being addressed.
Success is much higher when the proposal is written in concert with what they say they want to fund.
Dr. House was concerned as there are usually between 90 and 100 of these proposals submitted statewide, but this year there were only 71, so ISU has a chance of receiving a fair percentage of the funds. The motion to split the physical sciences from the life sciences and add an additional member was vetoed 9-8 by the Faculty Senate . There is a recommendation to add a nonvoting representative by the Faculty Senate . Dr. Meldrum has tracked proposals for the past five years and found that the number of funded proposals for the past five years is proportional to the number of proposals submitted. Dr. Meldrum had a request for the number of faculty in each unit, so he made a headcount from the full-time faculty in the telephone directory.