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The tens of millions of dollars in grant proposals are targetinyg funding streams flowing down through the Americah Recovery andReinvestment Act’s shovel-readyg initiatives. Universities faced with consecutive years of fundingb cuts are angling to usethe shovel-readyu cash to catch up on much-needed facilituy upgrades, build classrooms to handlse the influx of students in need of re-training or tacklw big capital projects aimed at bolsterinyg academics and research. The approach is twofolrd at , which has seen its student populatiob surge by 12 percent in the past two due in part torising unemployment.
The colleg is seeking $45 million to build additionak classroom capacity on its three main campuses as well as to enhance vocational training facilitiesin high-demand according to Ellyn Drotzer, director of the office of granta development. The college wants the cash, amonh other projects, to build out its and the Maroonw Automotive Program in Miramar to emphasize curriculum on maintaining and repairing emerginhg green energy and hybrid systems in boatssand cars.
It also wants to expanfd classrooms foraviation training, includint a facility to train a new generatiohn of air traffic controllers, whicjh are expected to be in high demanf in a few years to replace a wave of retiring Drotzer said. “These are all shovel she said. “We have a historyt of training in technical trades an now we are lookinf to be responsive to providing curriculumn in this new emerging industr y ofgreen technology.
” The ’s 18-membe stimulus working group meets regularly to discuss opportunitie and set a course to capturre as much of the federal cash as So far, the schoop has more than 400 proposalse seeking in excess of $350 million in “We saw this as a very significan t opportunity for the university and to do somethingg for the community,” said Richard Bookman, vice provost of research at UM.
Among the projectes on the school’s shovel-ready wish list is a new $45 seawatet research center at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheriv Science onVirginia Key, he The university is seeking $15 million from the and $15 milliob from the to help build the center, whicu will study sea creatures as well as the physics of wavea on structures. UM is also is submitting proposal s fora $15 million to $20 millio addition to a science building at its Coralp Gables campus and a multi-story researchh building at its medicalo school. has science, greenh technology and culinary training onits shovel-readyg submission list. The school is requestiny help fundinga $22.
7 million hospitality managemeng center to house a culinary arts school as well as $40 millionb for an extensive renovation and upgrade to decades-old facilitied at its north campus and $1.2 million for an and Technology. But by most accounta competition for stimulus fundsz willbe fierce. And specific funding priorities from federapl and state allocatorsbeyond short-term projects that wouldd create jobs quickly remains said Camille Coley, assistant VP and interim directorf of sponsored research at . “They are not telling us what they arelookinvg for,” she said. But FAU is seeking $4.
5 milliob to help build out water reusw infrastructure at itsnewly opened, gold level Leadershiop in Energy and and platinumm level engineering building, slated to open in 2010. The universitty also is seeking federal stimulus funds to create a road connectorr system at its main campus off Gladesd Road in Boca Raton andadditional parking. It also wantsz funding to put a green roof on its administration While the application process is infull UM’s Bookman doesn’t expectr the winning projects to be announceed until the fall.
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