UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Revised Charge October 13, 1981:

1. Name: University Research Committee

2. Membership: 12 faculty members, plus ex officio: Dean of the Graduate
School and the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement and Planning
or an appointed representative. The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
or an appointed representative serves as ex officio without vote. All
faculty members shall serve staggered three-year terms. The member-
ship of the Committee shall be as follows: 6 from the College of Arts
and Sciences with no more than two each from Humanities, Social Sciences
and the Sciences/Math; and 6 from the professional schools and other
academic units with not more than 1 from each professional school.

Each member shall have demonstrated scholarly accomplishment in the

pursuit of creativity, as evidenced by data submitted for each person
nominated by the Committee on Committees sor from the floor of the Faculty
Senate,

3. Quorum: 8 elected faculty members exclusive of ex officio.

4. A. Committee Functions: The University Research Committee recommends
funding of research proposals based on the merits of the proposals.
With the advice of its ex officio members, the committee develops
and presents to the Faculty Senate for its approval policies and
procedures for application by individual faculty, criteria for the
awarding of grants, guidelines for the use of research funds, and
procedures for annual reporting by grant recipients. The Committee
proposes other activities which would improve and promote research.
It recommends to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs recipients
of awards during the academic year and outside the normal academic

year.

B. To Whom Committee Reports: The Committee makes its recommendation
of policies and procedures governing funding of grants to the Faculty
Senate for its approval. ‘

C. How Often Committee Reports: The Committee reports to the Faculty
Senate within four weeks of its decision the number of grant ap-
plications received and the number recommended for funding including

the name of the nominee, department or school, grant title and the
dollar amount of the grant.

Power of the Committee to Act: The Committee is empowered to re~
commend to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs both nominees
for grant funding and activities which would improve and promote
research.