Re: NSF & Academic Year Support on Research Grants Hawk, Pat 21 Jun 2000 10:13 EST
Tom, I think your statement that "NSF will not support AY salary" is a little strong. I'm gonna play devil's advocate and quote the sentence right before your quote from the GPG: "As a general policy, NSF recognizes that salaries of facuty members and other personnel associated directly with the project constitute appropriate direct costs and may be requested in proportion to the effort devoted to the project." The words "normally" and "generally" tell me that not only does one have to look at a project on a case-by-case basis, the university's policies on "academic year research" has to also be factored into the decision. The GPG goes on to say you can't use grant funds to "augment the total salary", but I see no reason why academic year salaries can't be included in an NSF project. I try to think about it in terms of what does a PI need in order to complete the project, and if that's AY effort for which salary is charged, well then that's what it takes. Okay, now I'm ready for everyone to disagree with me. Patricia A. Hawk Sponsored Projects Administrator 5219 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-5219 tel: 541/346-2504 fax: 541/346-5138 e-mail: xxxxxx@orsa.uoregon.edu -----Original Message----- From: Tom Meischeid [mailto:xxxxxx@LEHIGH.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 5:22 AM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: NSF & Academic Year Support on Research Grants Unless you are proposing a large center budget NSF will not support AY salary. The GPG says: "NSF regards research as one of the normal functions of faculty members at institutions of higher education. Compensation for time normally spent on research within the term of appointment is deemed to be included with the faculty member's regular organizational salary". (pg. 10, 7.a.(i) Tom "Eleanor M. Cicinsky" wrote: > A question came up about requesting a portion of academic year salary > support on NSF Research projects. This would be in addition to the 2/9 > of summer support that is normally requested from NSF. Do any of you > request this support or do you consider the AY time to be contributed > effort on NSF research applications? > I know some agencies allow for this request -- but what is NSF's stance > in the area. > > Thank you, > Eleanor Cicinsky > > ====================================================================== > 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") ======================================================================