ACADEMIC,
APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
2009-2010
Academic Year
COMMITTEE: Research/Creative Activity Grant Committee
1. Membership
(include ex-officio members). REGULAR MEMBERS:Carmine
Scavo (Chair); Gail Ratcliff (Vice Chair); Jennifer Arrigo
(Secretary); Guili Zhang; Tom Mcaslin;
Javier Lorenzo; Su-Ching Huang; Robert Hochberg;
Kathy Davis; Elizabeth Jesse; Gregory Lapicki; Jay Newhard; Jason Brinkley; Denise Dickins
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS: Carl Billingsley; Margie Gallagher; Tom Ross; Al Schreier; Mustafa Selim; Jonathan
(Jay) Morris
2. Meeting
Dates (include members present*).
·
August 27, 2009:
Scavo, Brinkley, Lapicki, Arrigo,
McCaslin, Newhard, Zhang,
Davis, Ratcliff, Ross, Schreier (Also attending were
Marianna Walker, Deidre Mageean
· September 11, 2009: Scavo,
Brinkley, Lapicki, Arrigo,
Davis, Ratcliff, Dickins, Lorenzo, Ross, Billingsley,
Gallagher
· November 12, 2009: Scavo,
Brinkley, Davis, Jesse, Lapicki, Mallinson,
Newhard, Ratcliff, Schreier,
Selim
· March 1, 2010: Scavo, Newhard, Zhang, Lapicki, Lorenzo,
Davis, Ratcliff, Brinkley, Arrigo, Selim, Schreier, Ross, Gallagher,
Billingsley, Morris, (Dickins and Jesse not present
but participated by memo)
3. Subcommittees
established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
·
Natural
Science/Mathematics: Ratcliff (Chair); Arrigo; Lapicki; Gallagher; Hochberg (did not participate)--(read
and evaluated 11 grant proposals);
· Social Science: Scavo
(Chair); Davis; Morris; Dickins; Zhang--(read and
evaluated 12 grant proposals);
· Humanities: Billingsley
(Chair); Lorenzo; Newhard; McCaslin;
Huang--(read and evaluated 13 grant proposals);
· Health: Brinkley (Chair); Selim; Ross; Schreier;
Jesse--(read and evaluated 8 grant proposals)
4. Accomplishments
during the year, especially as addressed through committee goals. Please include recommendations made to any
University agency other than the Faculty Senate that will be noted under
#5.
·
Committee read,
evaluated, and developed rankings for 45 grant proposals (47 proposals were
submitted—two were deemed ineligible: one from BSOM and one receiving startup
funding).
· Committee hosted two
information sessions for prospective proposal writers on December 3 and 4
(second session was taped and made available on Faculty Senate website)
5. Reports
to the Faculty Senate (include dates and resolution numbers).
None
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order).
·
The
process of normalizing scores across subcommittees needs to be revisited.
Committee member Jason Brinkley is investigating alternative algorithms to
address this issue.
·
An issue of differential criteria for evaluation of stipend
requests and academic year funding was raised. Specifically, in addition to the
quality of the idea/soundness of the proposal, academic year grants carry the
requirement of budget expenditure evaluation. Members of the humanities
subcommittee were concerned that these differences could cause evaluations to
be biased.
7. Evaluation
of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the
committee's work during the year).
A. Charge: No problem
B. Personnel: Hochberg did not participate in
proposal evaluations
C. Attendance: No problem except finding a
common time for scheduling meetings
D. Responsibilities: No problem
E. Activities: Worked well this year
8. Suggestion(s)
to the Chair of the Faculty and/or Faculty Senate for improving the
effectiveness of the committee. None
9. Does
the Committee’s organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than the
date set this year? No
Signed: Chairperson __Carmine Scavo________
Secretary ___Jennifer Arrigo________