UPCOMING SRA TELECONFERENCE
Mark Your Calendars and Reserve Your Space!!!!

SRA is collaborating with the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE), and PricewaterhouseCoopers to bring you a live satellite
teleconference entitled, "Gifts, Grants, Or Whatever?  Determining How
Contributions Should Really Be Counted".

Date:           March 28, 2000

Time:           12:00 pm to 3:30 pm EST

Place:  Your Institution or Organization

The teleconference will explore the legal, ethical, fiscal and regulatory
issues related to appropriately recording institutional gifts, grants and
other types of external support. Four prerecorded scenarios will be aired
and discussed by panels of experts, and will address the following topic
areas:

 1.      Endowment and Challenge Grants: Do we count state
arts money as a gift or a grant?
 2.      Entrepreneurial Researchers: What if the Faculty
member owns a company and donates to his/her research program?
 3.      Clinical Trials: Should a contribution to a clinical
investigation ever be a gift? What if the researcher is a consultant for the
sponsor?
 4.      Pouring Rights: When is it a gift vs. a contractual
arrangement?

In deciding whether this program is for you (and all of your colleagues who
handle external support), consider the following questions:  Are you
confident that you would recognize all of the issues presented in these
types of situations?   Given that many of the issues fall into troublesome
gray areas, do you feel confident that you would have the best answers?

Since the cost is only $600 per satellite downlink, this is a very cost
effective way to make valuable information available to all of the
interested individuals in your institution or organization.  For more
information and to register, visit the SRA web site at http://sra.rams.com
(and click on the SRA/CASE Teleconference button).  If you have questions,
please feel free to call the SRA Executive Office at 202-857-1141.

Note:  Please feel free to share this information with legal officers,
development officers, business officers, faculty and graduate students
within your institution or organization.  The participation of all
individuals who may be involved in receiving and classifying external
financial support is very desirable.  If your institution is a university,
please be aware that a postcard has also been sent to members of the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education, National Association of College
and University Business Officers, and the National Association of College
and University Attorneys.

Marcia Landen
SRA Secretary and
Director, Sponsored Program Development
Bryan Hall, Room 1
Indiana University
107 S. Indiana Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
812-855-0516 (voice)
812-855-9943 (fax)
xxxxxx@indiana.edu

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