A typical project began with reading faculty proposals for patents based on discoveries made in the medical school's labs, then determining the marketing and patent potential of the discovery.
After objections from residents and university faculty, the proposal was reduced by about 20 percent to 1.9 million square feet of new classroom space, and other facilities for the more than 50,000 students that attend N.Y.U., the nation's largest private university.
The medical sector faculties submitted proposals in mainly two out of the six projects of the HEEP, namely HEEPF and QAAP.
As for Move 3 (Occupying the niche), both the faculty informant and proposal authors agreed that it is extremely important for research proposals to have clear and unambiguous research objectives and also to strengthen the statement of purpose by spelling out the significance of the proposed research (Move 3), hence the relatively high proportion of textual space assigned to this move.
And after his scandal-driven downfall, Richard M. Nixon was so stigmatized here at Duke University — where he earned a law degree — that the faculty rejected a proposal to house his presidential library.
If Princeton's faculty approves the proposal later this month, it would be by far the biggest step in recent years by a top university to change the way it evaluates its students.
But Mark D. Rosenbaum, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents a group of applicants, students and faculty members, said Proposal 2 violated equal protection principles by restructuring the state's political process and making it harder for disfavored minorities to press for change.
The university faculty received the proposal apprehensively, and criticized its vagueness, lack of control group, costliness, and effect on their livelihoods.
And there was little support among faculty for the proposal to shift funding for graduate students from research project grants to training grants.
We developed a program that encompassed a calendar year cycle (January December) that included bimonthly seminars, weekly meetings with faculty mentors, research proposal development, investigative research experience, and compilation of research into a final presentation and document.
