Pre-Award Services

The Institute for Educational Research will provide services to faculty to support scholarly inquiry, and proposal development and submission efforts and indirectly through linkages with broad array of University, state and federal government as well as the private sector providers. These services unconditionally are available to faculty in the College of Education.

• Research Planning and Development: Provide a place for individual faculty as well as those interested in working collaboratively to convene, discuss, plan and conduct research studies including interdepartmental, interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international initiatives. The IER will provide travel funds and logistical support to facilitate convening scholars with common research interests and shared commitment to securing external support.
  
• Proposal Preparation: The IER will make available resources to support faculty in identifying promising areas of inquiry, locating potential funding sources, preparing and submitting external grant proposals. Research assistants will work with faculty in conducting literature searches associated with preparing external grant proposals, assemble information, and provide logistical support in throughout the proposal development and submission processes including copying and mailing.
  
• College Grants Office: Faith Cordray will provide a range of pre-award services including: assisting faculty in 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, 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 as well as formal proposal submission processes.
  
• Resources: The IER’s supports students and faculty in their research endeavors by providing information and consulting services as well as links to useful college and campus resources through its Pre and Post-Award web pages.