Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant:
Progress Report (Year 1)
Your report is important for our assessment of the CORE program. It allows us to document direct outcomes of
your project as well as ways in which CORE support has enabled you to develop meaningful research
collaboration with your colleagues. Your answers will help us in our efforts to continually improve our programs
for investment in Lehigh faculty research.
Instructions: Use your tab key to move to each area which will expand to accommodate your text. You can cut
and paste text into the sections. After filling the form, save it as a PDF named
“YourLastName_CORE_ProgressReport_AwardYear” and email to mailto:VPResearch@lehigh.edu.
Our purpose in requesting this information is to assess how well the CORE program is serving its purpose of
seeding and growing research programs. Your candid answers are very important.
Where brief descriptions are requested, please limit your answers to 250 words or less. Avoid technical
language specific to your field.
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Project Outcomes
When you applied for CORE support, you described long-term goals, identified barriers to pursuing those goals,
and described a plan for addressing those barriers. Your intended outcomes were devised to enable research with
a scope and duration exceeding what was directly supported by CORE funding.
At the time of your application, what outcomes did you expect from CORE support?
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Actual outcomes may differ for a host of reasons. What outcomes did you achieve?
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Did your project enable collaboration? If yes, is the collaboration with someone outside your field?
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At this point, how would you best categorize the outcomes of the CORE-funded project? Check all that apply.
☐ Support continuation or expansion of the project, as expected.
☐ Support continuation or expansion of research in way(s) that I didn’t anticipate when I applied for CORE
support.
☐ Enabled me to determine that the original idea behind the project is not going to lead to what I hoped.
☐ Support production of academic work(s) that contribute to my academic reputation or that of my program,
college and/or Lehigh.
☐ Support realization of impact in ways that contribute to our reputation for supporting translation of
academic work into societal benefit.
☐ Otherwise contributed to future sustenance, vitality or productivity of research programs.
Works produced
List each publication, presentation, creative work, patent application, or other tangible work produced, or in
production, as a result of this project. Use formal citations or short descriptions as appropriate. Include both
academic works and any non-academic modes of dissemination.
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CORE Budget
Check any that apply.
☐ I needed to make significant changes to my budget
☐ to adjust according to the outcomes of early stages of the project.
☐ to adjust my plans according to opportunities that presented themselves.
☐ Contrary to what I anticipated, the budget fell short of what was needed to complete the project as planned.
☐ As I anticipated, the CORE budget limit made it difficult to bring the project to the point where continuation
could be supported extramurally. In the end,
☐ The CORE project significantly increased my chances of garnering extramural support.
☐ The CORE project did not significantly increase my chances of garnering extramural support.
Plans for continuation or expansion of the project or program
Describe your next steps for this project and how they will, or might, be supported.
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CORE projects are intended to support both collaboration and the submission of applications for extramural
support. List each application for extramural support to which this CORE project contributed.
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Longer-term plans
CORE grants are intended to aid development of meaningful research partnerships between scholars of different
expertise and, in many cases, disciplines. At the time you wrote your proposal, you had expectations of what you
hoped to be able to do in the long term, and what it could lead to. It would not be surprising for your long-term
plans and expectations to have evolved since then. Please provide a brief description of your long-term
expectations and aspirations for this line of work. If possible, note how outcomes of the work could ultimately be
valuable to those outside your field of study, or outside the academy.
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Your experience to date with the CORE Program
☐ I needed to contact your office with questions concerning my CORE project. The result was…
☐ My questions were answered appropriately.
☐ I still have questions, or take issue with the answers I was given.
☐ I would like a follow-up contact
☐ for assistance in seeking support for continuation.
☐ for assistance in identifying partners who could contribute expertise different from mine to the project.
☐ for consideration of other questions, comments or suggestions.
Please use this space to provide us with any comments, suggestions or remaining questions.
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