CF Research Grant Guidelines

(Revised 11/08/10)

Eligibility: All tenured and tenure-track assistant professors, associate professors, and professors at The Citadel who maintain an up-to-date electronic curriculum vita (Web version), are eligible to apply.

Application Form: Applicants must use the current on-line application form and provide all indicated information within the document.

Number of Copies Required: 1 hard copy must be submitted to the Chair of the Research Committee (Joelle Neulander, Capers 424-D) and one electronic copy as an email attachment to:

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Funding Limits: All faculty members are eligible to apply for funding of research conducted during the fiscal year 2011-2012.The maximum Research Grant award per applicant for this grant year is expected to be $3,000. Only in very rare circumstances will exceptions to this maximum be made by the Research Committee, but in those instances the applicants must sustain a heavy burden of proof in justifying the proposed expenditures. The applicant should note that this maximum applies only to Research Grants; the Presentation of Research Grants have a separate annual maximum. Publication Charges Grants are also separate from this amount.

Activities and expenditures which may be supported by CF Research Grants include travel to conduct (but not to present the results of) research, purchase of equipment and supplies directly relevant to the proposed research, use of student assistants for research activities, and payment of fees and other costs pertinent to gathering and transmission of data or publication of research findings. Specific restrictions on eligible expenditures are listed on the page entitled "Budget Guidelines."

Review Process: In its review of CF Research Grant Proposals, the Research Committee will consider the clarity with which the proposed activities are presented, the apparent feasibility of the proposed activities, the benefits to be derived from the research, and the cost effectiveness of the proposed methods and expenditures.

The Research Committee consists of two subcommittees, one for the schools of business education, humanities and social science, and library and one for the schools of engineering and science and mathematics. Proposals will be first reviewed by the applicant's subcommittee which will make a recommendation to the entire committee. After the subcommittee recommendations have been received, the Research Committee will consider each proposal in light of the subcommittee recommendations and arrive at a final recommendation to the Provost, who, after reviewing the actions of the Research Committee, will prepare a funding request for the total package for presentation to the Citadel Foundation.