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Services
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VISION
- To promote a campus climate that will cultivate an interest and proficiency in pursuing external funding
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- Provide the KSU community with leadership in sponsored program development, administration, and compliance
- Offer services that are responsive to the needs of the KSU community
- Provide differential assistance to the KSU community based upon individual needs and experiences with sponsored programs
- Facilitate the pursuit of external funding related to research, creative activity, instruction, and community service
SERVICES
- Provide faculty and staff with timely information on funding opportunities
- Provide faculty with proposal-writing support
- Process and submit proposals in an accurate and timely manner
- Provide proposal budgeting guidance based on PI needs, agency guidelines, and
University policy
- Maintain a user-friendly and informative web site
- Work with Deans and Department Chairs in meeting their needs and those of their faculty
- Analyze federal funding trends as they relate to research and program strengths of KSU
- Assist in the logistics of large-scale interdisciplinary proposals
- Provide guidance on the preparation of sponsors’ forms and assurances
- Identify and interpret sponsors’ guidelines and regulations
- Identify department and college funding priorities
- Maintain an archive of proposals and awards
- Provide reports on proposals and awards
- Review and approve proposals, budgets, and contracts
- Verify that appropriate regulatory approvals and assurances are in place
- Communicate information about sponsors and funding opportunities to faculty, department chairs, and deans in support of faculty research interests and institutional goals
- Negotiate acceptable terms and conditions with sponsors who want to contract with the University
- Verify that appropriate facilities and administrative cost rates are being requested and used
- Monitor web sites of agencies with technical report tracking databases
- Monitoring compliance with research policies and procedures
- Develop faculty skills in electronic proposal submission
- Interact with sponsoring agencies and other KSU offices on the behalf of faculty
- Develop and update sponsored programs policies and procedures
- Publish a monthly newsletter – Funding Forum
- Offer alternative funding sources and rewrite assistance
- Obtain Authorized Organizational Representative’s signature on proposals and contracts

Email:
pstrange@kennesaw.edu
This page last modified January 29, 2007
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