{"675693":{"#nid":"675693","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Service and Development Fund for Research Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) has announced a new Faculty Service and Development Fund (SD Fund) designed to cover \u003Cem\u003Eup to\u003C\/em\u003E 5% of salaries for research faculty who are funded 95% or more on sponsored support. The new SD Fund will take effect in August and is designed to cover individuals\u0027 time as they participate in service to the Institute and their research communities, develop new research programs, or engage in professional growth activities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHistorically, it has been a challenge for research faculty to undertake career development activities because those hours were not billable to their sponsored salary funding,\u201d said Assistant Vice Provost for Research Faculty \u003Cstrong\u003EMaribeth Gandy Colemen\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u201cThis new approach to Institute funding will not only benefit individuals\u2019 professional trajectories but will also empower our research faculty to give back to an even greater extent.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndividuals whose salaries are 0% funded by Institute general operations or Departmental Sales and Services (DSS) will have 5% of their salary covered by the SD Fund. Individuals whose salaries are between 0.1% and 4.9% general operations or DSS will receive the difference to get them up to 5%. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe EVPR Finance team has established a report that will identify employees who meet the approved criteria. Each unit will receive an allocation in August from the EVPR\u2019s Office. These funds will be allocated to identified research faculty in the amounts described in the calculations above. Units are not permitted to repurpose these funds in any way. The EVPR Finance team will run a report in April of each fiscal year to ensure that the funds have been allocated appropriately. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe creation of this fund has been in the works for some time and speaks to Georgia Tech\u2019s commitment to the professional growth and career longevity of our research faculty,\u201d said Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research \u003Cstrong\u003EJulia Kubanek\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u201cThe SD Fund exists due to the contributions of many, including \u003Cstrong\u003ERusty Edwards\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior director of Financial Administration, and \u003Cstrong\u003ERob Kadel\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior research scientist and senior director of Research Program Administration. We took a page from GTRI\u2019s successful approach to enabling research faculty to bill a portion of their time to these kinds of essential activities and adapted it for the academic and research units.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SD Fund is designed to support research faculty in resident instruction only. GTRI research faculty will continue to receive this type of funding through GTRI\u2019s existing process. The fund is applicable to full-time, permanent employees. Part-time, limited-term, and employees with retired-but-working status are not eligible. If an employee\u0027s allocation of effort must remain at 100% soft money (for example, if they have committed all their efforts to existing projects and are precluded from reducing those efforts per the terms of their sponsored agreement), the funds will be returned to the SD Fund.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWriter: Brittany Aiello, Faculty Communications Program Manager, Organizational and Academic Communications, Institute Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe new SD Fund will take effect in August and is designed to cover individuals\u0027 time as they participate in service to the Institute and their research communities, develop new research programs, or engage in professional growth activities.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Office of the Executive Vice President for Research has announced a new fund to cover up to 5% of research faculty salaries, enabling career development activities and service to the Institute."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2024-07-30 18:05:58","changed_gmt":"2024-07-30 18:13:47","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674451":{"id":"674451","type":"image","title":"Eric Shen and Anna Osterholm","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior Research Scientist Eric Shen (left) and Principal Research Scientist Anna \u00d6sterholm (right) demonstrate how films of electrochromic polymers can be applied to large surfaces. 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