{"id":2186,"date":"2023-03-14T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/osrp\/?page_id=2186"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:17:19","slug":"policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UMES FACULTY RESEARCH INCENTIVE PLAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) intends to recognize the contributions of faculty who are effective in securing external funds while maintaining their other scholarly responsibilities. To that end, the Faculty Research Incentive Plan (FRIP) is designed to provide incentives for obtaining external research and contract funding. The FRIP will be provided as a salary supplement in the form of a one-time bonus payment to be paid at the end of the fiscal year. The overarching goals of this plan are to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To provide incentives for faculty to compete for and secure external research funding;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To raise the total level of institutional research and contract funding;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To recognize and reward faculty who successfully compete for research grants and contracts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/172\/2026\/02\/UMES-FACULTY-INCENTIVE-PLAN-Fixed-Amounts-Approved-2022.docx\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"2922\">Faculty Incentive Plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/172\/2026\/03\/Updated-Research-Misconduct-Policy-Final-3_26.pdf\">Manual for Reporting Allegations of Research Misconduct <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/policies-and-procedures\/policy-on-participant-support-costs\/\">Participant Support Costs on Grants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/172\/2025\/03\/COI-and-Potential-Nepotism.pdf?ver=1742566594\">UMES Grants and Contracts Policy on Employment of Members of the Same Family<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/172\/2025\/02\/UMES-Policy-on-Research-Centers-Institutes-and-Core-Facilities-2_17_2025.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/172\/2023\/03\/UMES-Policy-on-Research-Centers-Institutes-and-Core-Facilities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UMES Policy on Research Centers, Institutes and Core Facilities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMES FACULTY RESEARCH INCENTIVE PLAN The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) intends to recognize the contributions of faculty who are effective in securing external funds while maintaining their other scholarly responsibilities. To that end, the Faculty Research Incentive Plan (FRIP) is designed to provide incentives for obtaining external research and contract funding. The FRIP&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/policies\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Policies<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1561,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[12],"class_list":["post-2186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}