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The tens of millions of dollars in grantt proposals are targeting funding streams flowing down through the American Recovery andReinvestment Act’s shovel-ready initiatives. Universities facef with consecutive years of funding cuts are angling to usethe shovel-readuy cash to catch up on much-needecd facility upgrades, build classrooms to handl the influx of students in need of re-trainint or tackle big capital projects aimed at bolsterinhg academics and research. The approach is twofold at , whichj has seen its student population surge by 12 percent in the pasttwo years, due in part to risinhg unemployment.
The college is seeking $45 million to buildx additional classroom capacity on its three main campuse as well as to enhance vocational trainintg facilitiesin high-demand occupations, according to Ellyn director of the office of grants development. The college wants the cash, among other projects, to builxd out its and the Maroond Automotive Program in Miramar to emphasize curriculum on maintaining and repairing emerging green energy and hybrid systems in boat sand cars.
It also wants to expandx classrooms foraviation training, includinvg a facility to train a new generation of air traffix controllers, which are expected to be in high demancd in a few years to replace a wave of retiringt controllers, Drotzer said. “These are all shovel ready,” she “We have a history of training in technical trades an now we are lookingb to be responsive to providinh curriculum in this new emerging industry ofgreenh technology.
” The ’s 18-member stimulus working group meets regularlh to discuss opportunities and set a course to capturr as much of the federal cash as So far, the school has more than 400 proposal s seeking in excess of $350 million in funding. “Wwe saw this as a very significant opportunity for the university and to do somethin g forthe community,” said Richarxd Bookman, vice provost of researchn at UM. Among the projectxs on the school’s shovel-ready wish list is a new $45 seawatet research center at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospherif Science onVirginia Key, he said.
The universitt is seeking $15 millio from the and $15 milliojn from the to help build the which will study sea creatures as well as the physicx of waves on UM is also is submittingv proposals fora $15 million to $20 million addition to a sciencw building at its Coral Gables campus and a multi-storyu research building at its medical school. has green technology and culinary training onits shovel-readt submission list. The schoool is requesting help fundinga $22.87 million hospitality management center to housr a culinary arts school as well as $40 millionn for an extensive renovation and upgradw to decades-old facilities at its north campus and $1.2 millio n for an and Technology.
But by most accountws competition for stimulus fundss willbe fierce. And specififc funding priorities from federal and state allocatorasbeyond short-term projects that would creatw jobs quickly remains unclear, said Camille Coley, assistantr VP and interim director of sponsored research at . “The y are not telling us what they arelooking for,” she But FAU is seeking $4.5 million to help builrd out water reuse infrastructure at its newly gold level Leadership in Energy and and platinuj level engineering building, slateds to open in 2010.
The university also is seekinvg federal stimulus funds to create a road connector system at its main campus off Glades Road in Boca Raton andadditional parking. It also wantsx funding to put a greemn roof on its administration While the application process is infull swing, UM’sz Bookman doesn’t expect the winning projectss to be announced until the
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