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Qualifications for Service as a Principal Investigator

The following guidelines have been established to grant Principal Investigator (PI) status.

  1. Principal Investigator status is automatically conferred to the following full-time faculty members:
              Professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, senior lecturer
              Research professor, research associate professor, research assistant professor
              Self-supporting research professional
  2. Persons holding the following titles may serve as PI on projects directly related to the mission and responsibility of their offices:
              Vice president, associate vice president, assistant vice president
              Vice provost
              Dean, associate dean, assistant dean
              Emeritus professor or emeritus associate professor
  3. Doctoral students seeking funding for fellowships or dissertation support. A full-time teaching or research faculty member must be named on the project as responsible for seeing that the terms of the grant or contract are fulfilled.

  4. Persons holding the following titles in the absence of a faculty appointment as noted above are generally not eligible for PI status including:
              Director, associate director, assistant director
              Postdoctoral associate
              Visiting professor, visiting associate professor, visiting assistant professor, senior research associate,
              research associate, research assistant

           Requests for exceptions (accompanied by the CV of the prospective investigator) can be made by the department/school chair with written approval of the college dean and the provost and vice president for academic affairs.

           The Research Foundation will maintain a list of non-faculty individuals who have been granted permission to submit proposals. This list notes whether permission was given on a one-time-only basis or for a more extended period of time.

 -Approved by the president
August 21, 2003
Revised July 17, 2006

          


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