UCEDD Operations

Operating a UCEDD involves a complex set of business, financial, and operational functions. The resources and activities in this section address topics including business office functions, leveraging funds, and ensuring the  sustainability of the UCEDD. 

UCEDD Operations Resources

• UCEDD Business Managers Workgroup
• UCEDD Fiscal Checklist (PDF)
• UCEDD Discussion Forum: Use of Core Funds: Handouts (PDF) and Discussion Notes (PDF)
• UCEDD Discussion Forum on Funding Interdisciplinary Training Programs: Handouts (PDF)  and Discussion Notes (PDF)
• UCEDD Directors Meeting at the 2018 AUCD Conference - Roundtable notes:
  • Core funding addressing emerging issues and program development (PDF)
  • Administrative and Organizational Tools (PDF)
  • Transitioning to a responsibility centered budget management model (PDF)
• Webinars:
  • Writing Competitive Grants to the Institute of Education Services
  • Strategic Grant Writing: NIH Funding Mechanisms, Proposal Preparation and Review Process
  • Webinar Series Employment First: From Idea to Reality: Funding and Support for Competitive Integrated Employment
  • NIDILRR Research Grant Program Overview
• 2019 TA Institute - Roundtable notes
  • Creating Funding Strategies/Finding More Sources of Unrestricted Funds (PDF)
  • Achieving UCEDD Goals through Leveraging Relationships (PDF)
  • Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Minorities (PDF)
  • Expanding Your Faculty Base (PDF)
  • Hiring for Success (PDF)
  • Innovative Ideas and Partnerships (PDF)
• National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
• College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR)
• ACL Funding Opportunities & Forms
• Grants.gov
• NIH Funding Opportunities
• WITH Foundation: Working for Inclusive and Transformative Healthcare
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: funding opps
• Candid (Foundation Center + Guidestar) Resources
  • Philanthropy News Digest > RFPs
  • Grantspace - Grantwriting trainings and resources
  • Foundation Directory - Find potential funders

UCEDD University Relations

UCEDDs must navigate the system and dynamics of the university with which they are affiliated. Resources in this section address topics including strategic planning, formal agreements between the UCEDD and its host university, messaging about how the UCEDD aligns with and supports the university, and other topics intended to facilitate close collaboration between the UCEDD and its host university.

UCEDD University Relations Resources

Understanding dynamics in the University environment

• Tip Sheet: UCEDD Grants Management: Negotiating UCEDD-University Agreements (PDF)
• 2021 Report on UCEDD-University Relationships and Agreements
• 2008 report on UCEDD-University Agreements (DOC)
• Samples of UCEDD-University MOU's available for review (contact AUCD)
• UCEDD Organizational Chart packet (PDF)
• UCEDD Strategic Planning in a University Context
• UCEDD Messaging Tools
  • UCEDD Elevator Speech
  • UCEDD-University Messaging Tool
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Admin 101
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Advice Finder
• How to Advocate for Yourself as an Early-Career Scholar
• TA Institute: Creating a UCEDD CV (PDF)
• TA Institute: Protecting the integrity of the UCEDD within the host University (PDF)
• Join listservs to track trends in higher ed:
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Inside Higher Ed
  • Politico: Higher Education