This community is for education professionals and enthusiasts dedicated to cultivating ideas on alternative research department and graduate student funding. Here you can post ideas on :

• funding ideas for research and development at accredited universities.

Before you ask - please make sure to search for a similar proposal. You can search proposals by their title or tags. 

Please avoid asking questions that are too subjective and argumentative or not relevant to this community.

I have created a basic outline of how you should structure your ideas in order to maintain consistency and allow others to expand on your ideas. You can use your AI assistant along with this outline to create additional ideas you can post here as well. Please remember to stay on topic (funding ideas for academic research) and try not to duplicate ideas. The moderator may remove or edit posts.

Structure: Reference current ideas to learn how to structure your post.

Overview: A two to three sentence generalization about the idea.

Core Concept: A further paragraph explaining the idea in more detail. This is what most people will read or skim so make it enticing!

You may choose only to include the Overview and Core Concepts for our moderators review. Posts can then be expanded on with the below content either by editing your post or having our moderator update it.

Implementation Strategy & Key Steps: The proposed general phases an organization could use to get the idea started or begin idea development with. 

• Phase 1: Planning & Setup
• Phase 2: Launch & Operations
• Phase 3: Scaling & Sustainability

Key Stakeholders & Roles: The roles and responsibilities that may be required to implement the idea.

• Internal : The university resources, staff and departments that could play a pivotal role in creating the funding source.
• External : Resources from outside the university, such as investor groups, specialized services or consultants.

Resource Requirements: The personnel, finances, infrastructure and policies that may need attention in order to make the idea a reality.

Potential Challenges & Mitigation: If you have ideas on what challenges may face the implementation in an average university setting you can discuss them here. I prefer discussing a Topic and a Mitigation strategy.

Success Metrics & Evaluation: How to measure a successful implementation of the idea. This could include financial goals, impact on exposure, outputs or other evaluation criteria. 

University Policy Considerations: If you are familiar with university activities and policies you can include a section detailing the potential policies that would be impacted or need to be created to adequately support the funding idea.

You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended posts diminish the usefulness of this site and push other questions off the front page.

To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where …

• every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”
• your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”
• there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”
• we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”
• it is a rant disguised as a question: “______ sucks, am I right?”

No currently only the creator and admin can edit or remove posts. But other users can up or down vote as well as comment on your ideas.