Happy New Year from Your OER Team!

Welcome Back! We want to congratulate the COE faculty for their accomplishments in 2019 and look forward to continued success in 2020. We are constantly on the lookout for opportunities for external funding to share. Contact us. We are here to help!

Listed below are some noteworthy statistics from the 2018 fiscal year:

  • COE faculty members in all schools and centers submitted 103 proposals, requesting over $70 million in external funding. Proposals were submitted to 51 agencies.
  • COE Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs received funding for 53 new awards totaling over $35 million. These new awards included contracts or grants from the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. ED), including IES, the National Science Foundation, and the Florida Department of Education. Of the total dollar amount of newly funded awards, 33% was funded by federal agencies or organizations, and 36% was funded by state agencies or organizations.
  • COE schools and centers have 135 currently funded projects totaling over $155 million. Of the total dollar amount of currently funded projects, 60% was funded by federal agencies or organizations. The COE experienced a 21% increase in the total dollar amount of currently funded projects as compared to the previous fiscal year.
  • Research funding per faculty member totaled $779,917, which is 15% higher than the previous fiscal year. Of the 199 COE faculty members eligible to submit proposals, 42 (21%) received external funding as PI or Co-PI and submitted at least one proposal.

View a complete version of the FY 2018 OER Annual Report.