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QEP Budget Guidance

Please use this guidance to construct your budget.  If you have a budget category that is unlike any category listed here, please contact or to discuss the possibility of including it in your proposal.

Summer stipends for faculty developing and/or experimenting with a research/inquiry-based course or “REU” 
$1,000 - $3,000, depending on amount of time involved.

Summer stipends for students participating in a research/inquiry-based course or “REU”
$1,000 - $3,000, depending on the amount of time involved.

Mellon Teaching Fellows
Advanced undergraduates who help supervise research teams in courses.  $500 per semester for each Teaching Fellow. The instructor employing a Fellow also receives a stipend of $500.

Undergraduate student research or assistants
$8 to $12 per hour, unless a convincing case is made for a higher amount. Applicants should specify and justify the total number of hours.

Funding for student travel
The committee prefers to fund student travel that is related directly to the research/inquiry process or the dissemination of results from QEP/Mellon-funded projects. Therefore, the committee prefers to consider requests for funding for student travel to conferences, for example, in proposals following initial funding. In general, the committee will not consider "stand-alone" requests to support student travel to present at conferences and meetings.

The Committee believes that the Student Activities Office remains the funding source of first choice for supporting student travel at conferences and meetings.

Graduate Teaching Fellows
Graduate students who help augment research experiences in a single course, or in a set of courses in a department or program.  Up to $12,000 per semester for each graduate fellow. Note: proposals for graduate funding must demonstrate that the project will have a significant impact on undergraduate learning, measured both by the number of students who will benefit and by the quality of the experience.

University Teaching Project participation for 2008-9 academic year 
$1,000 per faculty participant.  We invite individual faculty applications AND applications from groups of faculty working on a complementary project.

“May Seminars” and other planning, dissemination, and faculty development seminars to be held during the summer or academic year
$100 per participant per full-time day.

Funding for adjuncts
To replace foregone teaching of faculty who are experimenting with research/inquiry-based courses.  Standard adjunct rates: about $4,000 per adjunct. 

Materials purchases
This includes software, printed materials, supplies, and less-expensive equipment.  Funding is available to support several projects each of which is in the hundreds, not thousands, of dollars.

Data-set / Data-base development or maintenance
The Committee anticipates costs expressed on an hourly basis but are willing to consider well-defended alternative arrangements.

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