THE CHARLES E. SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

GOAL 3: BUILDING WORLD-CLASS ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH CAPACITY

Objective 9. The Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will expand its collaborations with area research agencies such as the Scripps Research Institute, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and the US Geological Survey

• Campus(es):
  
  • Boca Raton
  • Davie
  • Jupiter
  • Port St. Lucie
  
  
• Outcome By AY 07-08, the program will have significant partnerships with these agencies in which at least 10% of the college faculty participate through such activities as co-authorship of research papers and joint grant proposal submissions.
  
  

  Collaborations	05-06	06-07	07-08
  Faculty involved	10	15	20

  
  
• Strategy: Encourage faculty members to pursue collaborations; arrange for joint projects
  
  
• Target Date: AY 07-08


• Accountable Individual: Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
  
  
• Resources Required: See Objective 1 and Objective 3 for a description of plans to build the faculty generally, which will be essential to develop the partnerships with Scripps and the USGS. For Harbor Branch, which is funded through a special appropriation, a budget has been developed laying out the expected growth of the collaboration to a total of $2,200,000 in FY 09-10, requiring the following increases:
  
  

  Harbor Branch Partnership	05-06	06-07	07-08
  Number of on-site FAU faculty	2	3	6
  Total $ need	$1,000,000	$1,500,000	$2,000,000
  Increase in $ need	$250,000	$500,000	$500,000

   

• Budget Summary:

	AY 05-06	AY 06-07	AY 07-08
Funding/Source
New E&G (1 Time)
New E&G (Continuing)
Existing E&G Reallocation
New Foundation (1 Time)
New Foundation (Continuing)
Contract/Grant- (annual increment)
Contract/Grant (Returned Overhead - College/Department Account)
Contract/Grant (Returned Overhead - VP Research Discretionary)
Auxiliary – New, One-Time
Auxiliary – New, Continuing
Other - New, Continuing (Identify in description)
Other - New, Continuing (Identify in description)	$250,000	$500,000	$500,000
Other - Existing Funds/Reallocation (Identify in description)