Eligibility
Funds for research and creative projects are available to all permanent full-time members of the instructional staff, and the junior members of the faculty in particular, who are on the regular University payroll processed through the Office of the Comptroller of the City or State of New York. For the purposes of the PSC-CUNY Awards, junior faculty comprise those at the rank of untenured associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, and lecturer. Since the Program was specifically designed for those permanent faculty where research is a condition of their employment, applications from visiting professors, substitutes, adjuncts, research associates, and any faculty not identified under the PSC-CUNY Contract Article 1 cannot be accepted. Faculty hired on 'soft money' may not apply to the program until their status has changed to 'full time members' of the instructional staff as defined by the PSC-CUNY Contract.
In order to provide maximum assistance to faculty whose research is underfunded, faculty with more than $200,000 per year in funding for their own research in the Life & Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences division (excluding fellowships and instrumentation grants) or with more than $100,000 per year in funding for their own research in the Arts & Humanities, Interdisciplinary and Social Sciences divisions as of October 15, 2003, are ineligible to apply.
Faculty members on sabbatical or scholar incentive leave may apply for and receive awards subject to salary restrictions described below. Faculty members on leave of absence may apply for an award while on leave. They must have returned, however, and be back on full-time University payroll before accessing the award. Members of the University Committee on Research Awards are not eligible for awards. Members of the review panels are eligible for awards; their applications will not be reviewed by the panels, but will be handled by the liaison of that panel.
To be eligible, a proposal must involve original research or creative activities by the Principal Investigator. The following activities will not be funded: 1) those that chiefly support the creation or maintenance of institutional facilities or research materials; 2) those that support research to be performed in connection with fulfillment of degree requirements of the Principal Investigator; 3) the writing of textbooks, unless, in the opinion of the Committee, they constitute a significant scholarly contribution; and 4) the development of a curriculum for specific courses or programs.
An individual may not submit more than one application in any one PSC-CUNY Award Competition, as a Principal-Investigator (PI) and/or Co-PI.
Please note, however, to be eligible for funding, faculty who have received four PSC-CUNY Awards since 1997 must produce publications/creative works acknowledging the PSC-CUNY awards and evidence that they have sought or are seeking funding from external agencies. Applicants need not submit the publications/creative works and grant applications themselves, but they must be prepared to produce upon request.