The following guidelines have been established to grant Principal Investigator (PI) status.

1. Principal Investigator status is automatically conferred to the following full-time faculty members:
   Professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, senior lecturer, Research professor, research associate professor, research assistant professor, Self-supporting research professional
2. Persons holding the following titles may serve as PI on projects directly related to the mission and responsibility of their offices:
   Vice president, associate vice president, assistant vice president, Vice provost, Dean, associate dean, assistant dean, Emeritus professor or emeritus associate professor
3. Doctoral students seeking funding for fellowships or dissertation support. A full-time teaching or research faculty member must be named on the project as responsible for seeing that the terms of the grant or contract are fulfilled.
4. Persons holding the following titles are generally not eligible for PI status: Director, associate director, assistant director, Postdoctoral associate, Visiting professor, visiting associate professor, visiting assistant professor, senior research associate, research associate, research assistant

The Research Foundation will maintain a list of non-faculty individuals who have been granted permission to submit proposals. This list notes whether permission was given on a one-time-only basis or for a more extended period of time.

-Approved by the president
August 21, 2003