Bill 11-A-32 Revision of the Research Funds Procedures (Approved)

FACULTY SENATE                                SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY  

FACULTY SENATE BILL 11-A-32 
Approved by the Faculty Senate November 2, 2011  

BRIEF SUMMARY:  Presents the procedures and removes the section on graduate faculty research since this source of funding no longer exists.  

REVISION OF THE RESEARCH FUNDS PROCEDURES  

WHEREAS:   The Faculty Senate is updating the Faculty Handbook and dividing sections into policy and procedures in accordance with Faculty Senate Bill 10-A-13.  

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:  the “Research Funds” Faculty Handbook section 3.D.2 be replaced with the following text under the heading Procedures as indicated:  

Procedures:  

Proposal categories:  

1. Research or objective inquiry into any acknowledged disciplinary field using any recognized research method;  

2. Creative projects, performances or imaginative work in any acknowledged area of aesthetic expression.  

3. Research programs which promote further professional development.  

Eligibility:  

1.  All members of the University faculty with the exception of those whose resignations or terminations will have taken effect after the proposed receipt or expenditure of allocated funds;  

2. Prospective new faculty members contingent upon their appointment to the faculty;  

3. Staff members at professional levels comparable to academic faculty;  

4. Emeritus faculty.  

Detailed guidelines and application procedures for these faculty development grants are periodically revised and published in a separate booklet by the Grants and Research Funding Committee.   Please see  

http://www.semo.edu/facultysenate/committees/grantsandresearch_16438.htm  

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: this bill be adopted only with the companion Revision of the Research Funds Policy bill.    

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