Current vs. proposed procedures CURRENT PROCEDURE Each proposal author or authors chooses the college or discipline-based panel that they want their proposal reviewed by The panels convene and discuss the proposals, and assign scores. For each proposal, the median score is calculated after the top and bottom scores are removed. All proposals are pooled then ranked according to this score, awarded until resources are exhausted. PROPOSED PROCEDURE Each proposal author or authors chooses the college or discipline-based panel that they want their proposal reviewed by The panels convene and discuss the proposals, and assign scores. For each proposal, the median score is calculated after the top and bottom scores are removed. RCA ranks proposals by college and sets aside top two. All remaining proposals are pooled and ranked, awarded until resources are exhausted

# of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded % of total awards Arts & Letters %18.75% Business %9.38% Education600.00% Engineering %9.38% Health & Human Services %12.50% Natural Sciences and Math %31.25% Social Sciences %18.75% Library000 Total %

# of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded% of total awards Arts & Letters %22.86% Business %11.43% Education %2.86% Engineering %11.43% Health & Human Services %11.43% Natural Sciences and Math %28.57% Social Sciences %11.43% Library00 Total %

# of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded % of total awards Arts & Letters %25.00% Business %11.11% Education900.00% Engineering %11.11% Health & Human Services %8.33% Natural Sciences and Math %30.56% Social Sciences %13.89% Library100.00% Total10036