Hi Amanda,

 

I haven’t had this happen personally but have heard of it occurring within my institution – as a result, my central office advised to state in our budget justifications that we’ve included an annual merit increase (for those below NIH salary cap) in accordance with our university guidelines. If you’ve already provided such a justification, then that is worrisome…

 

 

 

Hello,

 

We received a five year award from NIH NHLBI. Our institutional practice is to include escalations for salaries for faculty/staff/graduate assistants along with the graduate assistant tuition. The expected increases are provided to us from our Budget Office. Again, our office is young and this is my first experience where I received an award that removed those increases. I did email the GMS and I received the response that the salaries and graduate student compensation reflects future year escalations that was not associated with an increase in effort or justified with an additional explanation. This is really concerning especially at the thought our graduate assistants won’t be covered fully in the future years (tuition does increase each year). Also, cutting out our merit increases for our faculty means their effort will decrease over the course of the grant. Does anyone have any advice or experience to share?

 

I appreciate your help!

 

Amanda Buker

Grants Coordinator

Office of Research and Creative Activity | EAB 203H

University of Nebraska at Omaha |www.unomaha.edu

 

402.554.2650

xxxxxx@unomaha.edu

 

 

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