FY13 Sponsored Programs Expenditure Report

Prepared by the Office of the Associate Vice President for Research and Federal Relations

(Internal Report)

Types of Research Expenditures in this Report

Total Sponsored Programs Expenditures-Expenditures from awards made from external entities and support instruction, public service and research functions. In this report, indirect costs are included. Total Sponsored Programs expenditures are not reported to the THECB.

Restricted Research Expenditures-Expenditures from funds awarded by an external entity and which are restricted for support of defined research functions. May include grants, contracts or gifts from Federal, State and Private funding sources. Indirect costs are not included in THECB report.

Total R&D Expenditures-The sum of expenditures from a combination of internal and external funds used to support only research functions. These expenditures reflect the entire research enterprise of the institution and are reported annually to the THECB.

FY09-13 Sponsored Programs Expenditures

FY09FY10

FY11FY12

FY13

$28.0 M$32.0 M

$34.8 M $36.3 M $37.0 M

• Of the $37 M in sponsored programs expenditures, 64% or $23.8 M was attributed to Research activity and 36% was attributed to instruction including public service.

• Of the $23.8 M in Research Expenditures 63% ($14.9 M) came from federal awards, 21% ($5.0 M) came from state awards and 16% ($3.9 M) came from private awards and gifts (for profit and not for profit).

5 Year Trend in Sponsored Program Expenditures By Unit

Unit FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13Applied Arts $8,420,777 $7,796863 $7,819,466 $7,958,930 $7,204,380

Business $716,554 $722,883 $820,638 $1,036,386 $907,782

Education $3,352,670 $5,264,679 $5,469,048 $3,980,515 $3,311,781

Fine Arts &Communication

$44,034 $8,797 $15,702 $48,179 $22,084

Health Professions

$196,798 $1,462,902 $2,382,483 $3,068,693 $3,337,989

Liberal Arts $2,200,838 $2,242,771 $2,211,240 $1,887,372 $1,426,837

Science &Engineering

$5,932,952 $6,123,251 $7,041,523 $9,400,556 $9,504,772

University Centers

$5,169,855 $7,182,873 $7,680,241 $7,634,793 $7,803,215

University College $572,152

VPSA $1,384,647 $1,272,798 $1,340,721 $2,488,687 $1,494,225

Total Research and Development Expenditures FY11-13

$33.5M

$36.7M

Data and graphs provided by the Office of Financial Reporting

FY11 FY12 FY13

Total Research and Development Expenditures-Quarterly Performance

Period FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013Quarter

Variance %Quarter

Variance $Cumulative Variance %

Cumulative Variance $

1st Qtr 6,012,097.79 6,706,259.17 7,623,584.74 13.68%

917,325.57 13.68% 917,325.57

2nd Qtr 8,524,245.42 8,272,776.46 9,502,183.11 14.86%

1,229,406.65 14.33% 2,146,732.22

3rd Qtr 7,823,214.83 8,683,740.39 8,687,681.28 0.05%

3,940.89 9.09% 2,150,673.11

4th Qtr 10,101,246.19 12,974,665.82 10,246,306.62 -21.03%

(2,728,359.20) -4.99% (577,686.09)

Fin Stmt Adjmt 1,026,193.27 26,221.69 993,434.96 3688.60%

967,213.27 1.06% 389,527.18

Total 33,486,997.50 36,663,663.53 37,053,190.71

Data and table provided by the Office of Financial Reporting

Restricted Research Expenditures FY11-13

Data and graphs provided by the Office of Financial Reporting

FY11 FY12 FY13

Restricted Research Expenditures- Quarterly Performance

Period FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013Quarter

Variance %Quarter

Variance $Cumulative Variance %

Cumulative Variance $

1st Qtr 2,864,669.16 3,623,922.90 4,149,947.92 14.52%

526,025.02 14.52%

526,025.02

2nd Qtr 4,745,133.48 4,980,574.42 5,662,676.15 13.70%

682,101.73 14.04%

1,208,126.75

3rd Qtr 4,564,808.81 5,213,146.74 5,325,790.50 2.16%

112,643.76 9.56%

1,320,770.51

4th Qtr 6,001,318.61 9,455,137.06 7,337,474.19 -22.40%

(2,117,662.87) -6.73%

(796,892.36)

Fin Stmt Adjmt 902,181.88 (1,511,205.63) (1,531,136.64) 1.32%

(19,931.01) -3.75%

(816,823.37)

Total 19,078,111.94 21,761,575.49 20,944,752.12

ERU Restricted Research Expenditures

Data provided by THECB

Net Increases in Restricted Research Expenditures by ERUs during FY09-13

$13,829,744(46%)

$11,020,569(22%)

$7,608,261(57%) $7,114,986

(19%) $6,508,663(58%) $5,704,348

(16%)$5,526,553

(21%)

$3,637,211(14%)

UTEP UH TXST UTD UNT TTU UTA UTSA

Factors Influencing Research Expenditures

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Program ended in 2013

• Funding cuts due to Sequestration• Declining funding rates• Amount of available funds • Rate of expending available funds• Increased competition by peers• Declining proposal submissions

Submitted Proposals

College FY 11 FY 12 FY 13Average (3 Years)

AVPR 57 38 39 44Applied Arts 48 52 45 50Education 41 22 28 31Fine Arts 3 4 4 3Health Professions 17 30 6 18Liberal Arts 74 61 60 66Science & Engineering 228 227 207 222Business 11 6 2 6OTHER 7 7 4 5

TOTAL 486 447 395 445

Data provided by the Office of Sponsored Programs

Research Strategic Plan Update• Requirement for all Emerging Research

Universities.• Initial draft completed by Executive Research

Planning Committee in April.• Provost review and initial executive edits in

June.• Presidential Cabinet review and edits in July.• Presidential review and edits in November.• Update of key performance measures in

December.• Roll out in 2014.

National Research University Funding Eligibility

Mandatory requirements

• ERU designation

• $45M in restricted research expenditures

Optional requirements

• endowments ($400M)

• number of Ph.D. degrees awarded (200 per year)

• freshman class of high academic achievement (at least 50 percent of first time entering freshmen in top 25 percent of high school class)

• recognition of research capabilities and scholarly attainment (Association of Research Library membership, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, or Phi Kappa Phi Chapter)

• high quality faculty (5-7 faculty with various international and nationally recognized awards)

• high-quality graduate education (reflected in number of programs and graduation rates)

Contents of the Research Strategic Plan

• Vision Statement• Plan to Increase Research Funding and

Productivity• Plan to Improve Undergraduate Education• Plan for Doctoral Programs• Plan for Faculty and Student Development• Other Resources• National Visibility

Research Priorities based on Current and Proposed Doctoral Programs

• Environmental Science • Public Administration• Materials Science and Engineering• Nutrition and Health • Criminal Justice• Applied Anthropology• Education • Geographic Information Science• Computer Science

Key Strategic Initiatives to Expand Research Enterprise

• Hire and Retain high quality researchers/scholars;• Provide competitive start up packages;• Balance faculty workloads to promote research while sustaining quality

teaching;• Develop research-related programs that encourage student participation;• Maintain a safe, well-equipped research infrastructure;• Ensure that faculty evaluation criteria are commensurate with

teaching/research expectations;• Add net new graduate research assistantships;• Add net new staff positions to support research;• Forster a service-oriented philosophy within research support offices;• Maximize funding opportunities in areas of research priorities;• Facilitate collaborations among faculty, centers and companies;• Provide University seed money for research and scholarship• Cultivate matching research gifts through the Texas Research Incentive

Program; and• Implement incentives identified in each college dean’s strategic plan.