Re: FIPSE Shropshire,Neil 15 Feb 2000 13:36 EST
Gary, Colorado State University submitted 6 FIPSE proposals, all at the 8% rate. Although we capitulated in this case, we are in the exact situation you are, and did so grudgingly. Your points are all well-taken. Neil Neil Shropshire Sponsored Programs Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 970-491-4982 (ph) 970-491-6147 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: Chaffins, Gary [mailto:xxxxxx@ORSA.UOREGON.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:13 AM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: FIPSE 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") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================