College Grants Officer

Faith Cordray, College Grants Officer, is assigned by the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) to the College of Education. She works with the faculty on the various aspects of grant proposal development. She hails from Atlanta, Georgia where she was a contracts officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology and more recently worked with the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute. Ms. Cordray has managed grants for NIH, NSF, and most other federal agencies and NGO's. Faith is an alumnus of the University of Georgia, with a B.S.Ed in Secondary English Education.

The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) maintains the College Grants Office that is staffed by Faith Cordray. The College Grants Office provides faculty with a broad array of pre-award services including refining research ideas, identifying internal and external funding opportunities; analyzing RFP’s; accessing information from a wide range of public and private sector sources to support proposal preparation, formal proposal submission processes, preparing proposal budgets (current overhead rate information, fringe benefits, indirect cost rates and policies), advising researchers on intellectual property policies, reviewing proposals for compliance with University, state, and federal guidelines and laws, and promotes projects among potential funding sources. The College Grants Officer will also assist faculty in completing required internal approval forms [Financial Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Forms] as well as serve as the liaison for completing College and University internal reviews.

See Pre-Award Services and resources for specific support and links.

The College Grants Office works closely with the Institute for Educational Research (IER) in matters involving OSPA and Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA). Current grants and projects are listed by department and by some Institutes, Centers, Clinics, Labs and Special Offices.

The recent history of the College grants shows a continued involvement with colleagues from across the University campus.