(a) In a state fiscal year, the Coordinating Board
shall confer with the Legislative Budget Board to determine Research
Performance Funding allocations for each TUF-eligible institution
based on the following:
(1) Eighty-five percent (85%) of the Research Performance
Funds shall be allocated based on the most recent three-year average
of combined Federal Expenditures and Private Expenditures. The allocation
shall be proportional based on the institutions’ share of total
combined Federal Expenditures and Private Expenditures.
(A) Federal Expenditures and Private Expenditures are
as reported in each state fiscal year on the Research Expenditure
Survey as required by §13.303 of this title (relating to Standards
and Accounting Methods for Determining Total Research Expenditures).
Private research expenditures include business expenditures, nonprofit
organization expenditures, and all other expenditures.
(B) For purposes of the allocation of the Research
Performance funds, Federal Expenditures and Private Expenditures shall
exclude unrecovered indirect costs and pass through funds to other
general academic teaching institutions, medical and dental units,
and other agencies of higher education.
(2) Fifteen percent (15%) of the Research Performance
Funds shall be allocated based on the most recent three-year average
of research doctoral degrees awarded. The allocation shall be proportional
based on the institutions’ share of the total research doctoral
degrees awarded.
(A) Research doctoral degrees that qualify for purposes
of calculation are those that are reflected on a list of research
doctoral degrees published annually by Coordinating Board staff on
March 1 of each fiscal year. Research doctoral degrees include an
academic degree beyond the level of a master's degree that typically
represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given
field and that requires completion of original research.
(B) The list of research doctoral degrees shall be
annually updated by Coordinating Board staff to reflect all degree
titles included in the most recently published National Science Foundation
Survey of Earned Doctorates and any additional degree titles identified
by the Commissioner.
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