PROJECT EAGLE I, "online learning project"

BUDGET

Line Item Budget

Budget Items Requested from FIPSE

The project eagle budgeted amount by budget catagory and project year
	Project Year 1 7/1/99 - 6/30/00	Project Year 2 7/1/00 - 6/30/01	Project Year 3 7/1/01 - 6/30/02	Project Year 4 7/1/02 - 6/30/03	Total
A. Direct Costs
1. Salaries & Wages (Professional and Clerical)	$512,400	$557,700	$574,300	$546,800	$2,191,200
2. Employees' Benefits(Avg. 27%)	137,800	150,600	155,100	147,700	$591,200
3. Travel	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	$100,000
4. Equipment (purchase)	770,600	527,000	150,000	100,000	$1,547,600
5. Materials & Supplies	50,000	50,000	50,000	200,000	$1,547,600
6. Consultants or Contracts	50,000	30,000	30,000	30,000	$140,000
7. Other (rental, printing, etc.)	57,500	57,500	57,500	57,500	$230,000
8. Total Direct Costs (items #1 - #7)	$1,603,300	$1,397,800	$1,041,900	$957,000	$5,000,000
9. Indirect Costs	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
10. Total Req. from FIPSE	$1,603,300	$1,397,800	$1,041,900	$957,000	$5,000,000
B. Institutional and other Support (Additional project costs not requested from FIPSE)
1. Salaries & Wages (Professional & Clerical)	$625,000	$644,800	$663,000	$683,000	$2,615,800
2. Employees' Benefits	$168,800	$173,900	$179,000	$184,400	$706,100
3. Travel	$2,000	$2,000	$2,000	$8,000	$706,100
4. Equipment	$600,000	$800,000	$800,000	$800,000	$2,800,000
5. Materials & Supplies	$200,000	$200,000	$200,000	$200,000	$800,000
6. Consultants or Contracts	$5,000	$5,000	$2,000	$2,000	$14,000
7. Other (rental, printing, etc.)	$1,000	$1,600,000	$5,000	$5,000	$1,611,000
8. Total Institutional and Other Support	$1,601,800	$3,425,700	$1,851,000	$1,676,400	$8,554,900

Budget Narrative

Funds requested in the grant are primarily in two areas: personnel and equipment.

Salaries and benefits are requested for the following positions (and functions): $50,000 for help desk support (to provide 24/7 coverage for students, faculty and staff); $40,000 for a web assistant/HTML programmer(to assist in the development of the student support applications outlined in this grant -- years 1-3 only); $25,000 for video operations specialist support (to assist with both video operations and production and the support of interactive classrooms college-wide); $40,000 for a media systems operator(an assistant engineer to coordinate the integrated distribution of video and vidweb materials developed during this grant); $20,000 for one-half time of a counselor (to provide student services support for College-University Center and at-a-distance students); $120,000 for 5 instructional technicians (to support the writing of code and materials for the on-line courses and on-line portions of vidweb courses); $10,000 each for 25% time ($40,000 total) of four current instructional technologists and $40,000 for 1 new technologists (who will work directly with faculty on course design and systems); $12,400 for 20% time of the Director of Instructional Technology (who will oversee the development of on-line courses, on-line student services and research and evaluation components of the Project); $22,000 for 50% time of a Coordinator of On-Line Program Development; $35,000 for a Coordinator of Research and Evaluation (responsible for the R&D and gamut of evaluation activities referenced throughout this application); $25,000 for an administrative assistant (to support both the counselor and Coordinator of Research and Evaluation and handle project coordination tasks); and, $72,000 annually for faculty stipends (paid to SPC faculty for their assistance as content experts in developing vidweb, internet and other technology-mediated curricula).

Except for the Counselor, administrative assistant, existing instructional technologists, Director of Instructional Technology, Coordinator of On-Line Program Development, and faculty stipends, funding is requested for 11 months the first year and 12 months for the remaining 3 years.

Salaries are increased annually by 3% for the life of the grant. (Note: coordination of the College and University Center components of the grant will be supported with institutional funds.)

The budget request also includes 27 percent of the personnel line for fringe benefit payments (retirement, medical, etc.) -- the average standard College package.

Since it is expected that College faculty and staff will be traveling to conferences to stay abreast of developments in the areas covered by the grant, to other institutions to gather information and share successes, and to meetings to disseminate project results and evaluations, $25,000 in travel support is requested annually.

Equipment requests are the second largest component of the grant. Funds are needed for this purpose to provide the infrastructure and the desktop hardware to provide the access points throughout the County. Recall that the central strategic theme is SPC's ability to develop upper division and workforce curricula and deliver "learning experiences" throughout the service area in a hub-and-spoke fashion with the Seminole Campus as the point of integration.

Therefore, support is being requested for equipment for several key Campus access points in Year 1: $227,000 each for computers, furniture and peripherals in the Clearwater Campus (CL) and the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus (SP/G) Information Commons; $260,000 for the video distribution and control system at Seminole, $31,900 for equipment to provide internet redundancy, $14,000 for new staff computers, and $10,000 for hardware for upgrades of faculty development centers college-wide.

In Year 2, $200,000 is budgeted to equip the new College University Center building at Seminole (computers, furniture, peripherals, etc.); $113,500 each for computers, furniture and peripherals at the Tarpon Springs (TS) and Health Education Centers (HEC); and $100,000 for infrastructure and/or "access equipment" college-wide. For Year 3, $150,000 is budgeted, and Year 4 $100,000 is budgeted for required infrastructure/ "access equipment" college-wide.

In the materials and supplies category, $10,000 is budgeted for marketing and $20,000 is budgeted in each of two categories for each of the four years: publications (including general project supplies) and software. Marketing monies will be used to inform potential students about program availability and access options. Publications dollars will be used to provide materials about the programs, about integrated Electronic College programs and services, and to disseminate project results to a national audience. Specialized software to support the upper division and workforce programs will be supported with grant funds. Since program details have not yet been settled, and some institutional funds are set aside annually for site license software purchases, funds requested from FIPSE represent a conservative estimated of the minimum required to support the newly developed course offerings.

Funds are also requested to support consultants and contracts for services. During Year 1, $30,000 for OPS (other personnel services and production) support is requested specifically to produce an ethics telecourse -- production will be out-sourced to a local television station. In Years 2 - 4 of the grant, as the College's staff in the VITAL Network and Electronic Campus are more established and integrated, the funding requested for this subcategory is reduced to $20,000 annually for OPS (other personnel services) to assist with video and related vidweb production tasks.

Also in the contractual area, $10,000 in funding is requested each year for evaluation. Supported in part by the team of national (technology-mediated learning) consultants and in part by local contracted staff, the College will engage in both formative and summative evaluations of project goals and objectives. (See Section 4. "Evaluation Plan.")

The request also includes dollars ($10,000 annually) for technical consultants to work with the VITAL Network staff in identifying, evaluating and implementing leading edge technologies and template design.

One last subcategory ("other") includes requests for two items: $50,000 in annual rental charges for (uniquely configured) space in the STAR (Science Technology And Research) Center for specialized workforce training programs (e.g., CISCO training), and $7,500 annually to support the lease/purchase of a portable to house the College-University Center activity prior to and during the initial phases of operation. Space is not available on current SPC sites to support these functions both of which are centrally tied to the twin access goals of the project: upper division degrees and workforce development (STAR Center). The STAR Center is a business incubator site only about 10 minutes drive from the Seminole Campus.