Can a faculty member in a partner university submit a proposal to the SA-CESU?
The Southern Appalachian CESU itself does not fund projects. The CESU is a virtual network of universities, research organizations and associations that are positioned to provided federal agencies useable knowledge in a timely fashion. For most federal agencies, the submission of an unsolicited research proposal by a university researcher is usually unsuccessful. This is not because the federal agency is uninterested, it is because the agency has very few discretionary funds to hand out. Budgets are tight on federal units. Emergency situations and unexpected maintenance usually eat up all discretionary funds. Visitors are literally loving the federal sites to pieces. The SA-CESU is intended, however, to promote cross-discipline and multi-partner projects. A university researcher could approach the SA-CESU host or director with such a proposal (or pre-proposal). If the CESU accepted the merit of the proposal, the federal reps within the CESU may be able to allocate some funding, but the
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