Well, the handwriting is on the wall.  We have a consortia of private
funding sources now accepting submissions by e-mail without prior
institutional approval.  The U.S. Department of Education is just going to
post a warning to submitters that they need to have institutional approval
before they press the submit button.  Now there's a report that the U.S.
Army is going to accept electronic submissions without institutional
approval.

So the question is, how are you going to cope with this on your campus?
At least with a signature required on a grant application form, someone
knows a grant is being submitted (although I have had the occasional
faculty member or department chair sign off as the authorized signatory...)
Do you think an internal electronic institutional approval process will
help?  Does anyone out there have one that's relatively easy to implement?
Do you use electronic forms?  Passwords?  Is it web-based?  Are there any
other ideas.  I'm open to any suggestions!

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Nancy Kay Peterson
Director of Grants & Sponsored Projects
Somsen Hall Room 202-C
Winona State University
Winona, MN  55987

Phone:  507.457.5519
Fax:       507.457.2415
xxxxxx@winona.msus.edu
http://www.winona.msus.edu/grants/

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