Navigating the Academic Shakeout

""Navigating the Academic Shakeout: Funding Academia by Building a Grant Culture"" by Fiorini & Associates is an excellent handbook for faculty at small colleges, universities, and nonprofits, especially those that lack research support offices. It provides step-by-step information on developing proposals: idea generation, finding solicitations, narrative construction, budget, and follow up once the grant is either awarded or denied. I completely recommend purchasing the book and keeping it on your desk at all times. (Dr. Midge Cozzens, Distinguished Research Professor at Rutgers, the State University and previously a Division Director during the 90's at the National Science Foundation) ""The authors are very knowledgeable about where to find support, how to construct proposals, and what makes them more innovative. This material helped our faculty create five successfully funded proposals."" (Dr. Nathan Shank, Department Chair, Moravian University) ""I was having difficulty finding any grants that fit my research project. . . I see funds for projects on undergraduate learning or for the inclusion of humanities across the curriculum, but was not sure if I could pivot my research project to fit these. This [material] helped me develop an idea that incorporated my research with undergraduate learning."" (F&A Workshop Faculty Participant)