‘Grants Provide Millions for Humboldt State Research and Support Student Success’

This is a press release from HSU News & Information:

The Schatz Energy research Center at Humboldt State received a $5 million grant for a microgrid at Humboldt County’s regional airport.

Humboldt State faculty, staff, and student researchers were awarded $23 million in new grant funding administered and secured by HSU’s Sponsored Programs Foundation (SPF) last year.

During the 2017-18 fiscal year HSU received 183 new awards, totaling $23.4 million. SPF currently manages 491 active projects with a total award value of $86.4 million.

Grant-funded projects currently underway include:

• $300K from the Department of Justice to continue funding HSU’s Check-It program

• $1 million from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to perform cultural resource fields surveys in numerous locations throughout the state

• $5 Million award from the California Energy Commission to design and install a renewable energy microgrid at the Arcata Airport.

SPF is distributing over $1.2 million this month to faculty, staff, and departments, based on their grant activity. The purpose is to provide funding that can be applied to further research and student success at HSU. These funds will be used by faculty and staff researchers to expand opportunities for students to participate in undergraduate research, help identify and pursue potential sources of research grants, engage in scholarly and creative activity, and develop their research facilities.

The funds help to support the research goals outlined in HSU’s strategic plan, which include developing a campus-wide focus on externally funded research and to foster supportive collaborations for grant writing and research. Past distributions were made in prior years, but this is the largest allocation in SPF’s history at Humboldt State University.

“Together we have built a research foundation that has achieved success by growing research opportunities and increasing the revenue and indirect distribution back to campus. At Sponsored Programs, we are proud to be part of the HSU Research Community,” says Kacie Flynn, Interim Executive Director, SPF.

SPF also administered $2.3 million in grant scholarships and stipends to HSU Students, and $1.1 million in faculty and student travel last year.

Through administered funds, SPF provided more than 1,000 job opportunities in Humboldt County last year. More than 300 students benefited from the hands-on learning experience of research while receiving a steady income, while staff and faculty earned additional pay while conducting studies in their field.

Some other examples of current programs administered through SPF include the CalSWEC grant for the Department of Social Work’s child welfare program; the TRiO grants that provide pathways to college for underrepresented high school students; and the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM grant, which supports Hispanic and low-income students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

About Sponsored Programs Foundation:

SPF is a non-profit auxiliary of the University, and it exists to administer externally funded grants and submit proposals to funding agencies on behalf of HSU.

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5 years ago

Definition of a grant: money collected by law and under threat of fines/jail is taken by people, who create a cost with salaries/benefits, offices, rule books, etc. What is left is then passed over to other people with their costs with salaries/benefits, offices, rule books,etc so they can offer other people who get salaries/benefits, offices, rule books, etc a chance to apply for a share of what’s left after that. Then, if they have said all the magic words that the grantor wants to see, they get some money designated for a specific purpose.

Depending on the grantor’s staffing and/or ethics, there may be little to no follow up to ensure the money was spent as promised. Whether they did or not, the public has no recourse about where of how such money is spent.

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/mar/27/research-grant-money-spent
https://www.grantfundingexpert.org/a-cautionary-tale-about-misusing-government-grant-money/
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/two-leaders-of-non-profit-sentenced-for-failing-to-report-misuse-of-392-000-in-grant-money
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-inspector-general-20140821-story.html

Government grants are a way of government protecting themselves from being held accountable while avoiding bothersome management details and rules. There is a tendency to think of getting a grant as “free money.” Hosver since the government does not make money (other than the literal fact that they do print it), it is money that is taken from the public, skimmed off several times before the remainder is passed out according to a very few people’s ideas of what is needed. It’s a sorry addiction government has allowed to expand beyond all reason.

festus haggins
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festus haggins
5 years ago

I wish they would stop calling it a grant, call it a gift from some taxpayers wallet that most don’t want to give up.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
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Taxpayers shell out a million bucks then applaud like mad when the money takers offer 100 bucks back, with strings attached of course.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
5 years ago

That’s a lot of money for a institution(hsu) that’s minions seem intent to spread rancor throughout the north bay politic.
I’d like to know why they deserve so much money. Many Universities seem like massified anti-American mini states. And what is their product? Young people that don’t understand the local community, think it’s rascist, and spend their free time spray painting up all the old mill buildings on the bay.
Surely it’s just a few bad pears, as they say.. but girl, that’s a lot of money, and The product isn’t selling.