General Information
Mission
Statement
The mission of the Sponsored Programs
Office, reporting through the Associate Vice President/Dean of Graduate
Studies, is to provide support to faculty and staff in their efforts to secure financial
support for research and other scholarly activities.
Services
for Externally Funded projects:
:
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Identification
of potential external funding sponsors
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Notification of
upcoming funding opportunities
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Liaison
with funding agencies
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Assistance with proposal
and budget preparation and
submission
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Responsible for
compliance with Federal and State regulations
in such areas as misconduct in research, financial disclosure policy, and
protection of human and/or animal subjects in research
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Liaison to the CCSU Human Studies Council which reviews all research
proposals involving human subjects
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Secure
appropriate internal approvals/signatures for external grants
Services for Internally Funded projects:
SPO
administers five CCSU internal grant programs:
Faculty-Student Research
CSU/AAUP
University Research
Faculty Development
Summer Curriculum Development
Community Engagement Grants
Sponsored
Programs Office announces the guidelines and disseminates application information for these grants
and also works with the Office of Grants Administration in monitoring post
award expenditures. Final reports, due upon completion of the grants, are
collected and maintained by SPO.
SPO
offers consultations and seminars in grantsmanship
in several different settings:
One-on-one consultations with faculty are available on an appointment basis.
Faculty workshops -
focusing on general grant subjects, internal CCSU grants, or
specific grant competitions -
are
offered periodically throughout the academic year.
On occasion, representatives from funding agencies are invited
to campus to discuss funding opportunities with faculty.
In order to submit
external grants the Sponsored Programs Office has put together this step by
step grant submission process:
