MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

FOR A SUCCESSOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AND

THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS/CUNY

1. Term of the Agreement: The term of the agreement shall be from September 20, 2007 through October 19, 2010.

8. PSC-CUNY Research Awards: Effective March 19, 2010, CUNY will provide the sum of $3,704,218 for PSC-CUNY Research Awards (Article 25.1).

ARTICLE 25

RESEARCH, FELLOWSHIP, AND SCHOLAR INCENTIVE AWARDS

25.1 The parties agree that the University shall provide funds for research and fellowship awards.

The following sums shall be provided for PSC/CUNY Research Awards:

Effective August 1, 2001 $3,308,990

Effective May 1, 2004 $3,391,715

Effective May 1, 2005 $3,484,987

Effective May 1, 2006 $3,589,537

Effective September 19, 2007 $3,622,958

25.2 PSC-CUNY Research Awards

(a) Eligibility: It is the intention of the parties that the funds for research shall be available without restriction to all full-time members of the instructional staff, and the junior members of the faculty in particular, who are on the regular University payroll processed through the Office of the Comptroller of the City or State of New York. The parties further intend that research funding shall be used to support activities in the creative arts and all academically relevant research in the areas of natural science, social science and humanities, including but not limited to research related to curriculum development, improvement in teaching, adaptation of standard educational techniques to special clientele and the relationship between technical or occupational training and the liberal arts curriculum.

(b) Committee: The Chancellor shall appoint a faculty committee to be composed of representation among the Biological Sciences, the Physical Sciences, the Social Sciences, the Humanities, the professional schools and a representative of the non-classroom professional staffs. Such committee shall be constituted as the University Committee on Research Awards, charged with the responsibility to make, in its discretion, research grants to individual instructional staff members of The City University of New York. The Chancellor may designate such University personnel as required for the financial administration of the research fund.

(c) The Committee shall be responsible for establishing guidelines for the application and approval of research awards and shall communicate these procedures to all members of the instructional staff.