In a message dated 6/20/07 3:14:18 PM, xxxxxx@CSUEASTBAY.EDU writes:
Dear colleagues,
I am at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, where we are trying to clarify our policy on effort reporting. I would greatly appreciate your advice on the following question. If a faculty member is providing voluntary, non-committed effort to the project (e.g. the PI has not budgeted any funds for his/her time, and no mention is made explicitly of the time being cost-shared), do you have an internal policy to ask them to estimate their effort? The OMB guidance does not require reporting of such voluntary, non-committed effort; however, as we think about how we can verify that people stay under 100%, it seems that we should be collecting this information.
Thanks for your advice!
Sincerely,
Victoria Jensen
Interim Director
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
California State University, East Bay
Be careful that it truly is not reportable time. NSF's OIG just dinged Caltech big time on this issue. I wrote an article about it in my June issue if you would like a copy.
Kind regards,
Theresa Defino
Editor
AIS Report on Research Compliance
www.reportonresearchcompliance.com
xxxxxx@aol.com
301.738.3721
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