Externally Funded Grants and Contracts
Recognizing the potential value of external grants to the college, faculty and staff are encouraged to develop proposals for grant funding. Proposals developed for grant funding must be consistent with the published role and mission statement of the college. The supervising Vice-President shall have the responsibility to make certain that a grant’s purpose and the mission statement of the college are in harmony. The Vice-President is also responsible to ascertain the impact of accepting a grant on other offices and functions of the college, and to ensure that proper procedures are followed at all stages of the process.
In order to ensure a balance between grant writing and instruction, the following guidelines should be considered:
- Faculty are employed for instructional purposes which should be the focus of their work.
- Faculty wishing to write grants may do so in addition to instructional duties
- Considering that faculty member’s primary workload and obligation is instruction, not more than 50% of a faculty member’s workload can be grant related (9-month academic year).
- The college will ensure the researcher his/her freedom to research and report his/her findings.
At all times, the college will maintain control over research and instruction when funds from outside agencies are involved, even when agencies attach their own regulations. This will be done to safeguard the college. The college will, at all times, monitor its grant funding so that it can maintain support of general institutional activities without depending on outside agency funding.