We have a faculty member funded by NIH and I learned today that he is slated to receive overload compensation for work on an executive committee. I nearly fell over when I learned this and immediately put a halt to it so I could check it out. He will receive $2000 for each of the fall and spring semesters for work that is “above and beyond normal Faculty services and not a part of normal workload.”

 

Would you consider this incidental? We don’t have a definition of incidental, by the way, and the payment is on a faculty contract addendum temporary overload form.

 

This has nothing to do with his grant and I am wondering whether we have to include this as part of his time and effort (which would mean we would need to include this in his IBS).

 

Any advice?

 

Carolyn

 

Carolyn Elliott-Farino

Executive Director, Office of Research

Kennesaw State University

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