CAMPUS PROFILE GLOSSARY
November 2003
2700-2760 RESEARCH ACTIVITY
2720 Principal Investigators
Source: Office of Grants & Contracts file of principal investigators. Only three may be listed for each grant, so this may undercount the number of faculty involved. Faculty members listed on more than one grant are counted for each grant. Grants are counted for the duration of the grant and the principal investigators are counted in their home department, not in the department sponsoring the grant application.View grant proposal information at the UIUC Proposal Data System.
2740 % faculty headcount
The number of principal investigators as a percent of faculty headcount. May exceed 100% when faculty members submit multiple grants or when non-tenure system faculty submit grants.
2760 Grant & Contract Exp/Fac FTE
Expenditures in the fiscal year from grant & contract funds divided by the tenure-system faculty FTE on all funds. Because some faculty participate in grants that are attributed to a research center or institute, this may underestimate the actual grant and contract expenditures per faculty member.