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The tens of millions of dollars in grant proposalx are targeting funding streams flowing down through the American Recovery andReinvestmeny Act’s shovel-ready initiatives. Universities faced with consecutive yearxs of funding cuts are angling to usethe shovel-ready cash to catc up on much-needed facility upgrades, build classroom to handle the influx of students in need of re-trainingt or tackle big capital projects aimed at bolsteringb academics and research. The approach is twofold at , whicnh has seen its student population surge by 12 percenr in the pasttwo years, due in part to risin g unemployment.
The college is seeking $45 million to builed additional classroom capacity on its three main campusez as well as to enhance vocational training facilitiesin high-demand occupations, according to Ellyn director of the office of grants The college wants the cash, among other to build out its and the Maroone Automotive Programk in Miramar to emphasize curriculum on maintainintg and repairing emerging green energy and hybrid systemw in boats and cars.
It also wantsw to expand classrooms foraviationh training, including a facility to train a new generation of air trafficv controllers, which are expected to be in high demandr in a few years to replacwe a wave of retiring controllers, Drotzer said. “Thesee are all shovel ready,” she said. “We have a history of traininbg in technical trades an now we are looking to be responsivse to providing curriculum in this new emerging industry ofgreenj technology.” The ’s 18-member stimulus working group meetd regularly to discuss opportunities and set a cours e to capture as much of the federalo cash as possible.
So far, the school has more than 400 proposal s seeking in excessof $350 millionb in funding. “We saw this as a very significant opportunitty for the university and to do something for the saidRichard Bookman, vice provosy of research at UM. Among the projects on the school’zs shovel-ready wish list is a new $45 seawater researchj center at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marinre and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key, he said. The universitg is seeking $15 million from the and $15 millio n from the to help buildthe center, which will studyt sea creatures as well as the physics of waves on structures.
UM is also is submittingf proposals fora $15 million to $20 millionb addition to a sciencde building at its Coral Gables campus and a multi-storh research building at its medical has science, green technology and culinary trainin on its shovel-ready submission list. The school is requesting help fundingta $22.7 million hospitality management center to house a culinaryt arts school as well as $40 milliob for an extensive renovation and upgrade to decades-old facilitiess at its north campus and $1.2 milliomn for an and Technology. But by most accountws competition for stimulus funds willbe fierce.
And specifidc funding priorities from federal and state allocatorsbeyonf short-term projects that woulc create jobs quickly remains unclear, said Camillr Coley, assistant VP and interim director of sponsored researcbh at . “They are not tellin g us what they arelookingy for,” she said. But FAU is seeking $4.5 millio n to help build out water reusee infrastructure at itsnewly opened, gold levelk Leadership in Energy and and platinunm level engineering building, slated to open in 2010.
The university also is seeking federal stimulus funds to creater a road connector system at its main campud off Glades Road in Boca Raton and additional It also wants funding to put a green roof on itsadministratio building. While the application process is infull UM’s Bookman doesn’t expect the winning projectsx to be announced until the
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