Re: FIPSE Barbara Gray 15 Feb 2000 13:26 EST
Gary, The College of Charleston (SC) submitted one pre-proposal with the 8%TDC rate. "Chaffins, Gary" wrote: > Colleagues, > > I have noted a significant amount of traffic regarding the issue of the F&A > rate used for the recent FIPSE preliminary applications. The method that > FIPSE uses is internally divisive to our institutions, creating conflict > between faculty and administration. I won't go into a discussion about the > FIPSE position, where I have strong feelings about the practice, but I would > like to conduct an informal survey and make it available to the list. > > Our institution is publicly assisted and we adhere to full recovery wherever > possible as the failure to recover full costs drains our ability to support > other activities. > > Reimbursement of appropriate facilities and administrative costs is a > critical part of our reimbursement stream. Our institution returns part of > the administrative portion to our units for support of the administrative > and clerical costs associated with grant activities. Failure to recovery > our full administrative costs reduces (or eliminates any return in the case > of 8%) the funds they have to pay the staff salaries providing direct > support to their grant activities. > > We submitted several FIPSE applications with our Public Service rate which > is 33% of mtdc (so now you know who will be at that rate). > > I will not identify the institutions responding but would like to know: > > 1. Number of FIPSE applications submitted by your institution for the 2/11 > deadline > 2. The F&A rate requested for reimbursement. > > I will post the results on the list. > > Gary Chaffins > Director, Office of Research Services and Administration > 5219 University of Oregon > Eugene, OR 97403-5219 > Office: (541) 346-2395 > Fax: (541) 346-5138 > e-mail: xxxxxx@orsa.uoregon.edu > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== -- ================================================================== Barbara H. Gray, Director Research & Grants Administration College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Office: 843-953-5673 Direct: 843-953-5885 Fax: 843-953-6577 e-mail: xxxxxx@cofc.edu http://www.cofc.edu/~orga/ Campus Location: 407G Bell Bldg. ================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================