RPAC Now Accepting Pre-Proposals for FY 25 Strategic Initiative Funding

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The Resource Planning & Advisory Committee (RPAC) is accepting pre-proposals for funding of new fiscal year 2025 strategic initiatives.

These are initiatives that:

  1. Are proposed by TU faculty or staff
  2. Address a substantial need within Towson University departments/colleges/divisions
  3. Demonstrates collaboration between Towson University departments/colleges/divisions
  4. Align with but are not currently included in the university’s or departmental/unit strategic plans (https://www.towson.edu/about/mission/strategicplan.html)
  5. Require a minimum of $250,000 over a term of up to 3 fiscal years
  6. Are sustainable upon completion of the funding

The pre-proposals will be reviewed by RPAC ahead of our October meeting and the committee will invite select applicants to move forward with full proposals based on the clarity of their summary, the alignment of the initiative with a unit’s or TU’s strategic plan, the impact of the initiative, the proposed budget, and the proposed budget justification. Those invited to submit full proposals will be invited to present their full proposals to RPAC at our December 8th meeting and the completed full proposals will be due on Friday, December 15, 2023. RPAC will then make recommendations to the President’s Cabinet and the President who will ultimately make decisions about funding in spring 2024.

This is the second year for the RPAC-led Strategic Initiative program. Last year, the university funded 2.5 of the proposals, including the TU Math Prep Program (Miriam Parnes), the Supplemental Instruction Mentor (SIM) Program in Biology and Economics (Seth Gitter), and the Public Communication Center (Jennifer Potter and Sarah Parker Hughes). This will be the first year that the program consists of a pre-proposal followed by an invited full proposal application model.

To learn more about this program and the application process, please consider attending one of our virtual drop in sessions:

If you are interested in applying, please complete the pre-proposal form by 11:59PM Eastern on Sunday, October 15, 2023: https://bit.ly/RPACSIPAForm25

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This post was written by Garczynski, Joyce V.