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. 2025 Jun 13;9(1):e145.
doi: 10.1017/cts.2025.10079. eCollection 2025.

Examining the effect of a non-attendance fee on writing workshop attendance, grant submission, and success rates among K award applicants

Phillip A Ianni  1 , Brenda L Eakin  1 , Elias M Samuels  1 , Christine Byks-Jazayeri  1 , Ellen Champagne  1 , Matheos Yosef  1 , Shokoufeh Khalatbari  1 , Vicki L Ellingrod  1
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Examining the effect of a non-attendance fee on writing workshop attendance, grant submission, and success rates among K award applicants

Phillip A Ianni et al. J Clin Transl Sci. .

Abstract

In 2009, the University of Michigan's Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research developed a three-session K Writing workshop. Beginning in 2016, we implemented a non-attendance fee to encourage attendance across the three sessions. We examined whether this fee improved attendance, increased submission of an NIH K or R grant proposal, and improved success rates. Between 2012 and 2021, 373 participants attended the workshop. After the non-attendance fee was implemented, significantly more participants attended all three sessions of the workshop, and there was a statistical trend suggesting an increase in the success rate, while submission rates remained constant.

Keywords: Grant writing; career development awards; early career faculty; program evaluation; translational science.

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We have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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