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Gail Weaver, left, and Amy Hoover sort through many of the 200 plus Strategic Directions proposals that piled up in Bryan Hall in Bloomington before the December deadline.

SD funding decisions due in March

By Jayne Spencer

A total of 246 proposals were submitted in Round 2 of Indiana University's Strategic Directions funding process by the Dec. 3 submission deadline.

Five panels will review the proposals and those selected will divide approximately $10 million set aside for proposal implementation. Funding decisions are expected March 3.

Fourteen proposals were for university-wide initiatives, 111 were submitted for the IUB campus and 70 for IUPUI. Northwest submitted 13, Kokomo 10, eight each from South Bend and Southeast, six from East and three each from IPFW and Columbus.