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Grant Stories: Now Available! Navigating the Academic Shakeout: Funding Academia by Building a Grant Culture “Navigating the Academic Shakeout: Funding Academia by Building a Grant Culture” is a comprehensive look at building a successful, competitive, and sustainable grant culture. With traditional academic financial sources disappearing, this book provides crucial knowledge by which faculty can foster self-sufficiency through effective grantsmanship. It provides the best opportunity to enhance resources, develop programs, and enrich student experiences. “Navigating” is more than the simple step-by-step guide. It is a playbook for the grant landscape, easily customizable to any context without underplaying the depth required for establishing a robust attitude toward grant pursuit. The authors—a consortium of academic and industry professionals with over a century of combined experience—share their knowledge of how the process works, accompanied by real-life examples and practical assignments that will maximize an institution’s chances of long-term success. Topics include ideation, finding solicitations, constructing collaborations and partnerships, creating a convincing concept paper, pulling together supporting documentation, setting the stage for successful grant administration, and building a sustainable campus grant culture that fosters future endeavors, among others.   As consultants, Fiorini and Associates’ philosophy is to provide you what you need to be successful in the pursuit of grant funding. Let them show you how to get started and discover one of the mainstays of academic financial independence. Available at Barnes & Noble: https://lnkd.in/ex-fk9sJ Amazon: https://lnkd.in/eQF4Ph4r

Changes both inside and outside academia have created a crisis for many small and mid-size colleges and universities. This blog opens a discussion on repositioning the role of grants within the academic revenue stream.