18 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Library’s general operating budget 20 51%
External grants 11 28%
Library’s special project fund 9 23%
Institution’s general operating budget 7 18%
Academic department budget 5 13%
Institution’s IT budget 3 8%
Institution’s special project fund 3 8%
Endowment 2 5%
Student fee 1 3%
Other funding source 17 44%
Please specify the other funding source. N=17
A library donor provided special funds to start the initiative.
Additional support has come from the provost’s office and the faculty development office.
Bookstore
Campus partner’s budget
Consortium funding
Initiative funded by provincial government: Alberta Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education
Initiative was initially funded by the institution’s general operating budget, but is now sustained by the
library’s budget.
Initiatives thus far have been funded by students paying for the materials, though at a reduced cost. In
the case of the development of an economics textbook, the department did provide some release time
for faculty to work on the project and therefore funded indirectly. The Libraries are dedicating some
staff time to OER outreach. The bookstore initiatives are funded through cost recovery.
Internal grant from the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning
IT has provided staff to build OER repository.
Lead faculty member is providing some grant funds to pilot a stipend program in spring 2016.
Otherwise, there is no funding for this initiative at present.
None locally. The statewide project is funded by the Georgia legislature. Local faculty have been
awarded grants by the project, so I will speak to these below.
Provincial government offers OER Adoption Pilot funding and peer review funding.
Student group may donate some funds as well.
Student groups on campus: University Student Government (USG) and UConn Public Research Interest
Group (UConn PIRG)
UCI Open has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in external grants since 2007. One department
received an anonymous gift for its work on open educational resources. Its core staffing is funded by
University Extension.
Waiting to find out right now about possible institutional IT budget (one-time funding) to support a
proposal for textbook purchases for large survey courses with high-cost texts.
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