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Eligibility
All faculty in the Culverhouse College of Business are eligible to participate and welcome to apply. However, priority will be given to faculty with the following characteristics:
- Tenured Associate Professors
- Evidence of a fundable stream of research
- Strong support from their department
Expectations of Recipients
- Attendance at each of the monthly meetings of recipients with the Associate Dean for Research
- Monthly reports submitted to the Associate Dean for Research and the recipient’s Department Head documenting
- Progress of the development of the proposal
- Successful meeting of assigned deadlines
- Participation in the Culverhouse Grant Incubator
- Commitment to use the skills developed through this program to develop additional federal proposals
- Willingness to help mentor other faculty and graduate students in grantwriting, including potentially serving as a mentor to future Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical recipients
- Willingness to collaborate with other faculty and graduate students in future grantwriting efforts
- Presentation about the recipient’s research and/or experiences developing a grant proposal as part of a college-wide colloquium series
- Completed proposal, either submitted or ready for submission to an approved grant agency or foundation, by August 15 calendar year immediately after the year of admission into the program (or soon after, depending on the deadline of the program the recipient is targeting)
Failure to meet these expectations will result in a one section increase in the recipient’s teaching load for the following academic year.