OER Annual Report of Accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2020
The Office of Educational Research (OER) completed its annual report outlining data on externally funded projects and grant activities in the College of Education (COE). Faculty productivity and efforts toward securing external funding remain high and have surpassed fiscal year (FY) 2019 in (a) dollar amount of proposal submissions, (b) number of proposal submissions, (c) number of collaborative proposal submissions, (d) dollar amount of collaborative proposal submissions, (e) number of collaborative currently funded projects, (f) dollar amount of collaborative currently funded projects, (g) number of currently funded projects, (h) dollar amount of currently funded projects, (i) dollar amount of collaborative newly funded awards, (j) number of collaborative newly funded awards, and (k) dollar amount of funding per faculty member. The following represents a summary of external funding activities for FY 2020.
• COE Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs received funding for 71 new awards totaling over $23 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, 38% was funded by federal agencies or organizations, 32% was funded by subcontracts, and 21% was funded by state organizations.
• COE schools and centers have 103 currently funded projects totaling over $118 million. Of the total dollar amount of currently funded projects, 53% was funded by federal agencies or organizations. The COE experienced a 39% increase in number of currently funded projects as compared to the previous fiscal year.
• Research funding per faculty member totaled $1,336,512, which is 40% higher than the previous fiscal year. Of the 106 COE faculty members eligible to submit proposals, 74 (70%) received external funding as PI or Co-PI and submitted at least one proposal.
To view the complete report, see the COE Research Facts and Figures webpage.
