Berkeley Excellence Accounts for Research (BEAR)

Information For Faculty And Administrators & Policy Statement September 2022

Launched in the fall of 2014, the BEAR program is intended to support Berkeley's faculty in the Professor series and the Teaching Professor series as they advance their research, scholarship, and creative accomplishment. The program was approved as a three-year pilot funded through a portion of the indirect costs that the campus recovers from granting agencies, the consolidation of other programs, and additional campus revenues. The program provides up to $4,000 in unrestricted research funds per year to eligible faculty members. In spring of 2017 a decision was made to continue the program, but with some revisions which are detailed below. In fall 2022, teaching professors were added to the program.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR ADMINISTRATORS

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