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 Ingredient #9: External Funding
Programs such as the IEP are labor intensive, and
require many activities beyond the normal routine of
the academic year. Faculty need to travel to develop
internships, to maintain relationships with the
private sector, to visit students on site during
their internships, to visit high schools for
recruiting and to develop study abroad opportunities.
A program such as the IEP also requires continual
curriculum review and the creation of specialized
courses such as advanced intermediate German for
engineers. To do this work properly, faculty need
release time and summer course-development stipends.
Expenses such as these are not generally allowable
within the budgetary framework of an institution such
as the University of Rhode Island. It is safe to say,
therefore, that international engineering programs
rely, at least initially, on external funding for
their development. For us at URI, grant writing and
fund-raising have become a part of the routine
academic year, and it is for this reason that we have
begun to categorize potential funding sources for
international engineering programs in the second part
of this resource book.
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