HUNTER COLLEGE
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND GRANT SUPPORT (ORGS)
GRANT PREPARATION AWARD
OVERVIEW
Purpose of the Award
The Grant Preparation Award funds three credits of reassigned time for grant preparation
activities to faculty in the School of Nursing (SON) and in the School of Health Sciences (SHS)
who will be submitting an external grant application during the current academic year. Proposals
may relate to new or to continuing research or project endeavors. ORGS will fund two Grant
Preparation Awards each academic year: one for SON and one for SHS. If resources permit,
additional awards may be funded. The applicant and his or her track coordinator, program
director and Dean must agree upon the use of reassigned time prior to submitting the application.
Application Process
The complete application form must be submitted electronically to ORGS; please see the
application form for complete instructions. Applications for reassigned time for Fall semester
must be received no later than 5:00pm on October 15 of the preceding Fall semester; applications
for reassigned time for Spring semester must be received no later than 5:00pm on March 15 of
the preceding Spring semester. If either due date falls on a weekend or holiday, applications
must be received no later than 5:00pm on the preceding business day. Late applications will not
be accepted.
Criteria for Receipt of Award
Decisions about funding an application for reassigned time are based upon the:
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Consonance of the proposed grant application with the missions of the faculty
member’s School and of ORGS.
Perceived “readiness” of the application for submission within the academic year.
Perceived potential of the proposed grant application to receive funding from an
external source, based upon federal review criteria (i.e., significance, approach,
innovation, investigator experience, institutional environment, appropriate
treatment of human subjects’ concerns, potential for future funding).
Perceived potential of the proposed grant application, if funded, to further the
applicant's research and academic career.
Eligibility
Criteria for eligibility are:
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Full-time tenured, untenured tenure-track, or permanently-appointed nontenuretrack SON and SHS faculty may apply. Faculty who have not received an award
from an external funding source are particularly encouraged to apply.
Proposals may concern research, demonstration projects, curriculum
development, training projects, or, in some cases, support for research-related
resources or planning for larger endeavors. Training, project, curriculum, resource
and planning proposals must include a significant scholarly component.
Approval from the track coordinator, program director and Dean for acceptance of
reassigned time.
Grant Review Process
An ORGS review committee will review all timely and eligible applications; the ORGS
Executive Director will notify the Dean of the School of each candidate chosen to receive the
award. If there is more than one application of merit from a School, the ORGS review
committee will rank the applications, which will be funded on the basis of available funds. The
Dean(s) and the ORGS Executive Director will notify candidates of ORGS’ selection, and also
will notify the appropriate track coordinators and program directors. Should the ORGS review
committee determine that no application from a School meets the funding criteria, ORGS
reserves the right to recommend that no application from that School be funded and, further, if
appropriate, that two applications from the other School be funded instead. In addition, if only
one School is funded in the Fall semester, preference will be given in the Spring semester to
applicants from the School not funded; however, ORGS reserves the right to make funding
decisions it deems appropriate as noted above.
Reporting
Each recipient of the Grant Preparation Award, within 30 days after the completion of the
course release, will report on the status of the grant application to his or her Dean, to the ORGS
Executive Director, and to his or her program director and track coordinator. The ORGS Grant
Preparation Award Progress Report Form, which is modeled on federal progress report format,
must be used for this reporting.
Applications and progress report forms for the ORGS Grant Preparation Award can be
found on the ORGS Website at www.hunter.cuny.edu/shp/centers/orgs/awards.htm