Re: FIPSE McCann, John 15 Feb 2000 14:47 EST
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 > ---------- > 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 > > > ====================================================================== > 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") ======================================================================