The Evergreen State College submitted two preliminary proposals to FIPSE
with indirect cost rates of 8%.  This is much lower than our regular
negotiated indirect cost rate (60% of salaries) with the federal government.

John McCann, Ph.D.
Academic Grants Manager
Office of the Adademic Vice President and Provost
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
Phone:  360-866-6000 ext. 6045
E-Mail:  xxxxxx@evergreen.edu
Fax:  360-866-6823

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> From:         Chaffins, Gary[SMTP:xxxxxx@ORSA.UOREGON.EDU]
> Reply To:     Research Administration Discussion List
> Sent:         Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:13 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
>
>
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