A61.15
Policy

RESEARCH ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE

The Research Allocations Committee supervises and allocates the Faculty Research Fund. The committee shall communicate and meet with the Associate Provost for Research or his/her designated representatives. They shall formally meet at least monthly during fall and spring semesters to discuss the availability and allocation of funds. The committee receives requests from faculty members for grants-in-aid, determines faculty eligibility for grants from the fund and the amount of such grants, and appraises the merits of proposed research projects as well as the productivity of the applicants. At the last meeting each year, the Committee shall elect a chair. The chair shall remain active through the summer session. The chair or a designated representative shall convene the initial meeting of the new committee.

(Ten members appointed by the Faculty Senate; of these ten, at least one shall be selected from each of the following seven areas; physical sciences--chemistry, earth and planetary, mathematics and statistics, physics and astronomy; life sciences--biology, psychology; social sciences--anthropology, "business and administrative sciences", economics, geography, history, law, political science, sociology; engineering--all departments of the School of Engineering; education--all departments of the College of Education; humanities--architecture, English, journalism, foreign languages and literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, philosophy, communication and fine arts--all departments of the College of Fine Arts.)