Salary Assistance
Funds can be provided for undergraduate or graduate student assistance. The type of assistance should be consistent with the level of goals to be accomplished. For some specific work, compensation for staff time can be requested. This may include programming time from local computing support centers that goes beyond their normal job description. Consult with the departmental MSO regarding appropriate funding levels or pay scales for Staff Research Associates (SRA), undergraduates, or Graduate Student Researchers (GSR).
Typically, instructional costs (cost for instructors and TAs) are covered by the department. However, Teaching Assistant support can be provided in cases where additional instructional support will be needed due to the changes and improvements in the course you are proposing. Please include in the proposal how TA funding will be provided in the future. In such proposals, please include letters from the chair/dean indicating such support. Again, the departmental MSO can advise on the appropriate levels for TA funding. Please be aware that GSRs and TAs are not interchangeable positions and requests for each will be evaluated on different terms.
When possible, the IIP grant will allocate 19900 funds for GSR and TA salaries, which will allow departments to receive fee remission reimbursement provided your division/school has allocated funding. TIF, worker’s compensation, and other payroll costs are the responsibility of the hiring department, and will not be provided. Therefore, these fees should not be included in the budget.
Equipment
The $6,000 limit is for equipment only. Equipment purchases come from a separate and limited account. The Committee is willing to support activities to develop new courses requiring equipment, which in most cases can be covered by $6,000. They will not fund individual laptop computers merely for presentation needs.
Course Releases and Stipends
Faculty should only request a course release when the work is beyond the scope of normal course development that is expected as part of the faculty’s responsibility and cannot be easily delegated to a GSR, and the need should be well justified in the proposal. Senate faculty are not eligible to receive stipends for course development, and are generally not eligible to receive summer salary (except under very unusual circumstances and requiring substantial justification). For non-Senate faculty who propose to develop a course, we encourage consultation with Kumiko Haas to determine the best way to support their goals.
Course releases have to be approved by the department chair. Proposers should be aware that being awarded an IIP grant with teaching release does not necessarily guarantee the release. Ultimately it will depend upon the department finding suitable replacements for the proposer’s teaching obligations.
The course release is a set amount that is provided to the department to provide replacement costs, and not a salary replacement. The department can request up to $9,646 (0.13 FTE at Assistant Professor, Step IV) for both faculty and lecturers. For departments that have specified language about course development workloads in the contracts with their unit 18 lecturers, they may request that cost in lieu of a course release.
Also see section on in-kind assistance from CAT below.