WSW Provides Rowan University with Comprehensive Federal Government Relations Services
In Brief
- Engineered a grant-writing turnaround, securing a $1.2 million NSF Noyce grant after two previous unsuccessful attempts by providing targeted feedback and strategic edits to the university's proposal.
- Secured $5.4 million in Congressionally Directed Spending over three years by mastering the revived earmark process and leading the university’s annual appropriations strategy.
- Advanced the university’s strategic ambition to become an R1 institution by enhancing its national image and providing a comprehensive, turn-key federal presence in Washington.
WSW has represented a public research university in Gloucester County, New Jersey, before the federal government on and off since 2001. WSW provides the University with a full-time, turn-key presence in Washington and assists the University in directly engaging Congress and the Administration to make a persuasive case for granting funds and/or partnering with Rowan on initiatives that enhance education for its students and advance the common good. Through this engagement, WSW has helped the University enhance its image at a national level, bring federal resources to the University, and and support the University’s goal of becoming a Research Intensive (R1) Intuition.
In support of this effort, in Fiscal Year 2022 when the earmarking, now referred to as Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending, was revived, WSW helped the University successfully navigate the process and has led the University’s annual appropriations strategy engaging their elected officials in the House and Senate, which led to those Members securing $5.4 million in earmark funding for the University over three fiscal years.
WSW also provides comprehensive federal grant services and has helped the University secure millions in federal funds as well as expand its capacity to be successful. For example, the University had not been able to secure funding through the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, applying twice with no success, but after WSW provided specific feedback and edits to the University’s proposal it was awarded a $1.2 million grant. With funding through this program, a team at the University, partnering with Glassboro Public Schools, Millville Public Schools, and Vineland Public Schools, will recruit and prepare science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors as post-baccalaureate Noyce Scholars for careers in teaching secondary mathematics or science. The project will address the urgent need for a qualified, diverse pool of mathematics and science teachers in South Jersey and the broader region.