Earmark funding requests for FY 07 is closed. Responses for the requests made in FY 07 should be issued by summer 2006
We are beginning the congressional earmark process for funding in FY08. The process will have the following timeline:
Submission Process:
10/31/06: Faculty should submit to their respective Deans a Appropriations Request Form before 10/31/06.
Click here to use the template for the Appropriations Request form .
Click here to use the template for the Appropriations Request form .
Please keep the description section of the request to 2 pages or less. If more than one request is submitted from a college or school then it would be helpful if they were rank-ordered.
While submitting the form several points must be noted regarding the congressional earmarks:
- The budget should range from $500,000 to $4 million.
- The request should not be for somethying that would ordinarily be funded by a grant or contract from a federal agency.
- The request should be for once only, seed funding to increase research capacity, or initiate a new thrust area, and thereby make the University of Texas at Arlington more competitive for normal feeral grants and contracts.
- Funding for personnel is highly discouraged.
- Earmark requests should not be written like a proposal, but like a prospectus to inform politicians as to what the funding will accomplish and why funding is essential to better the congressional district, the State of Texas, and the Nation.
- 11/11/06: Deans are to submit in rank order possible earmarks to the Vice President for Research.
Review and Selection Process:
- Mid November 2006: The Vice President for Research will discuss candidate earmarks with the University of Texas System Office of Federal Relations and Legislative Aides as well as University Provost and President..
- December 2006, submission of selected earmark request to the University of Texas System Office of Federal Relations.
- March 2007: visits by Team Arlington and others,as appropriate, to Washington D.C.
- May 2007: follow-up visits to Washington D.C.
Please contact the Office of Vice President for Research at pharris@uta.edu for further questions or clarifications.
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