About ARI:
Program |
Administration |
Funding |
Technology Transfer |
Personnel
Allocation of Funds
The
ARI receives a $4 million annual State General Fund budget
allocation to support applied research and outreach activities. The
ARI distributes this public funding to support scientifically
peer-reviewed research that is annually matched at least one to one
with industry and/or agency resources to fund high-priority
research, development, and technology transfer activities, as well
as public and industry education and outreach. ARI funding
allocations are expressly designed to encourage CSU system and
individual campus excellence through a combination of competitive
research and capacity building enhancements. Individual campus
funding is allocated through the respective colleges of agriculture
on a competitive basis and must be utilized for agricultural, allied
business or natural resources applied research. Research funding
opportunities, however, are not exclusive to the colleges of
agriculture. ARI funding allocations are made annually in the
following categories:
System-wide competitive funding
The ARI annually allocates $800,000 in support of a multi-campus
shared pool of competitive research funding for research of
statewide significance. This funding is restricted to public domain
projects and is available annually to any qualified ARI member
campus faculty or research scientist, or to other CSU, UC, UC
Extension, USDA, and/or other qualified industry research scientists
who have established an appropriate collaborative partnership with
at least one qualified faculty or research staff at one or more of
the ARI member campuses.
Campus competitive research funding
The ARI annually allocates $1,240,000 to be dispersed by CATI
among the four CSU colleges of agriculture in support of individual
intra-campus competitive applied agriculture and natural resources
research. Individual campus funding allocations are made
specifically for addressing unique local and/or regional project
activities.
Individual campus capacity building funding
The ARI annually allocates $1,536,000 for individual campus
capacity building funds. This funding provides the essential and
otherwise unavailable investment capital that extends and enhances
each college of agriculture’s ability to provide for the demand for
local and regional as well as for statewide research and technology
transfer. This funding is primarily for faculty release time,
research scientist and technician positions, graduate and
undergraduate research assistantships, and scientific equipment
necessary to facilitate high-priority applied research.
System administration and information dissemination funding
CATI operates under a permanent research mandate from the CSU and
the California State Legislature. It has been charged by the CSU and
the Legislature to provide for ARI central administration and is
allocated $200,000 annually for this purpose. CATI is housed on the
California State University, Fresno campus.
Campus administration funding
Each of the CSU’s four colleges of agriculture is allocated
$56,000 annually in support of individual campus administration and
coordination activities. Each campus is responsible for providing a
campus coordinator and for working cooperatively and collaboratively
with the ARI executive director and the CATI administrative office.