Prepared by the Office of the
Associate Vice President
For Research and Federal Relations
Fall 2012
(Internal Report)
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Total Sponsored Programs Expenditures-Expenditures from
awards made from external entities and support instruction,
public service* and research functions. In this report, indirect costs
are included. Total Sponsored Programs expenditures are not
reported to the THECB.
Restricted Research Expenditures-Expenditures from funds
awarded by an external entity and which are restricted for
support of defined research functions. May include grants,
contracts or gifts from Federal, State and Private funding sources.
Indirect costs are not included in THECB report.
Total R&D Expenditures-The sum of expenditures from a
combination of internal and external funds used to support only
research functions. These expenditures reflect the entire research
enterprise of the institution and are reported annually to the
THECB.
$32.0 M
$25.8M
FY08
$34.8 M
$36.3M
$28.0M
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
Annual Growth: 4%; Five year growth: 40%
Expenditures from all external sponsors and includes
Research, Public Service, Instruction and F&A.
The percentage of sponsored programs expenditures classified as
Research increased 14% over FY11 and 74% during the past five years.
The percentage of sponsored programs expenditures from Federal awards
was essentially unchanged over FY11, but has increased by 86% over
the past five years.
Unit
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
Applied Arts $9,796,799
$8,420,777
$7,796863
$7,819,466
$7,958,930
Business
$596,513
$716,554
$722,883
$820,638
$1,036,386
Education
$4,139,452
$3,352,670
$5,264,679
$5,469,048
$3,980,515
FAC
$21,927
$44,034
$8,797
$15,702
$48,179
HP
$130,268
$196,798
$1,462,902
$2,382,483
$3,068,693
Liberal Arts
$1,937,082
$2,200,838
$2,242,771
$2,211,240
$1,887,372
Sci/Eng
$3,760,515
$5,932,952
$6,123,251
$7,041,523
$9,400,556
U. Centers
$4,060,213
$5,169,855
$7,182,873
$7,680,241
$7,634,793
VPSA
$1,252,073
$1,384,647
$1,272,798
$1,340,721
$2,488,687
Fiscal
Year
# Unique
Principal
Investigators
# Unique
Sponsored
Programs
Accounts
Accounts
Per Principal
Investigator
2012
201
570
2.83
2011
183
520
2.84
2010
175
509
2.91
2009
163
476
2.92
2008
159
461
2.89
The number of PIs has increased 26% during the past five years.
The average expenditure per sponsored program per year has
increased From $56K to $63K (19%) over the five year period.
$21.8 M
$17.8 M
$11.3 M
FY08
$19.0 M
$13.3 M
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
Annual growth: 14.5%; Five year growth: 93%
Texas State has the highest annual and five-year increase
Among Emerging Research Universities.
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Key parameter for National Research University Funding.
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Certified by THECB.
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Determines Research Development Fund allocations.
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Correlates to an institution’s potential for new discovery and
impacting economic development through technology transfer
and commercialization of intellectual property.
Links to teaching mission since research scholars engaged in new
discovery present cutting edge knowledge to students.
$30.56 M
$33.48 M
$36.66 M
$24.49 M
$19.31 M
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
Annual growth: 9.5%; Five year growth: 90%
Total R&D = Restricted Research + Appropriated Funds +
Institutional Funds (start up, developmental leave, RDF, REP,
IDC, strategic one time, matching/cost share, departmental
M&O, etc.).
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Incentivize and enable more individuals to engaged in funded
research to increase numbers of proposals, awards and
expenditures.
Build infrastructure that increases research capacity while
adequately meeting safety and performance standards.
Design and implement program to install departmental research
administrators in high activity units to increase productivity and
reduce administrative burden.
Optimize TRIP opportunities.
To make accountability more transparent and
promote excellence, The Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board took the
following actions:
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Grouped public institutions according to general academic
mission and certain key indicators such as size, number of
graduate programs, research expenditures, etc.
Determined for each group appropriate measures that reflect
institutional performance.
Established benchmarks to measure success.
Assessed progress annually.
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Research Universities :UT-Austin, TAMU-College Station Research
Universities provide a broad range of undergraduate, graduate and professional
programs, place a greater emphasis on research than universities in other groups,
and serve their region, the state and beyond. Excellent undergraduate education is
a central function, but a significantly higher proportion of these institutions’
students will be enrolled in graduate and professional programs than the other
groups (Award 100 or more doctoral degrees annually in at least 15 disciplines,
$150 Million in research expenditures)
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Emerging Research Universities :UH, TTU, UT-Dallas, UT-El Paso,
UT-San Antonio, UT-Arlington, UNT, Texas State University
Emerging Research Universities are educational, scientific, engineering, business
and cultural resource centers committed to the three-fold mission of teaching,
research and service. As universities with extensive educational programs,
academic efforts are directed to applied and basic research in selected fields,
teaching and scholarship and creative activities. The universities encourage faculty
members to be active researchers/creators in their respective disciplines and to
involve both undergraduate and graduate students in research and creative
pursuits.
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Offer a wide range of baccalaureate and masters
degrees.
Serve a student population within and outside of the
region.
Committed to graduate education through the
doctorate degree in targeted areas of excellence
Award at least 20 doctoral degrees per year.
Offer at least 10 doctoral programs.
Enroll a minimum of 150 doctoral students.
Have restricted research expenditures in excess of $14
million dollars.
1. Enriches all students’ educational experience by providing
opportunities to participate in cutting-edge research and to work
with faculty mentors.
2. Immediately eligible to participate in the Texas Research Incentive
Program (TRIP). TRIP was established by the Texas Legislature to
provide matching funds to leverage private gifts for the
enhancement of research productivity and faculty recruitment.*
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50 percent of the amount made by the donor on a certain date between
$100,000 but not more than $999,999.
75 percent of the amount made by the donor on a certain date between
$1,000,000 but not more than $1,999,999.
100 percent of the amount made by the donor on a certain date
between$2,000,000 but not more than $10,000,000.
*The donor must clearly restrict the use of funds to research.
W. Morgan & Lou Claire Rose
Fellowship in Creative Writing
650,000.00
Endowment
FA & C
325,000.00
Jane Wallace
160,000.00
Stock Transfer
Science
79,735.00
PM & Jeanette Williamson Foundation
115,000.00
Grant
Science
57,500.00
Kim Gunnarson
100,000.00
Endowment
Liberal Arts
50,000.00
Leona Irene Spoonamore
947,216.60
Stock
473,608.00
Jerry D. & Linda Gregg Fields
100,000.00
Non-Endowed
Still Water Foundation
100,000.00
Non-Endowed
Multi
Library
Science
Library
Science
Taylor Global, Inc.
100,000.00
Non-Endowed
50,000.00
Grant
Grant
Grant
Grant
Grant
Grant
Science
Library
Science
Science
Science
Science
Science
Science
100,000.00
52,500.00
750,000.00
125,000.00
76,500.00
750,000.00
Endowment
Business
149,348.00
Albert & Margaret Alkek Foundation
SEMATECH
Meadows Foundation
Harte Research Institute
Meadows Foundation
Meadows Foundation
Tom & Jo Roddy
TOTAL SUBMITTED
TOTAL MATCHED
200,000.00
105,000.00
1,000,000.00
250,000.00
153,000.00
1,000,000.00
298,696.36
50,000.00
50,000.00
5,278,912.96
3,139,191.00
NRUF-Provides funding to emerging research universities that
meet critical benchmarks for achieving national research
university status:
Mandatory criteria
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ERU status
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$45 million in restricted research expenditures (FY13 report: 5 th out of 6
Non-NRUF eligible ERUs)
Optional (4 of 6)
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$400 M Institutional endowments (4th out of 6)
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200 Ph.D. degrees awarded annually (6th out of 6)
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Freshman Class of High Academic Achievement (4th out of 6)
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Recognition of Research Capabilities and Scholarly Attainment (Phi Kappa Phi
membership attained)
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High Quality Faculty (7 individuals with professional distinction (4th
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High Quality Graduate Education (FY12: First in PhD graduation percentage and
second in MS graduation percentage)
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ERPC was established in Fall 2012 by the Provost and charged
with developing a strategic plan for research to be submitted to
the THECB.
The strategic plan must contain sections that address: vision
statement, plan to increase research funding and productivity,
plan to improve undergraduate education, plan for doctoral
programs (existing and new), plan for faculty and student
development, other resources, and national visibility.
The committee has assessed which 4 optional requirements Texas
State is most likely to achieve in an 8-10 year time frame.
The committee will also identify peer and comparison institutions
based on numerous institutional data elements.
The plan will be submitted in Spring 2013.