We also referred the problem to the chair, who assigned the responsiblity to another faculty, who still hasn't written the report.  Since the new person doesn't submit to that agency, he really doesn't care.   So far, the agency hasn't cut anyone else off, fortunately.

It's a similar situation to Barbara's, the stick isn't much of a stick.

I wouldn't worry, except that this situation is multiplying.  We have another PI who has left without submitting a final report to that same agency.

Out of curiosity, how helpful would research administrators be if you received a request for assistance from the administrator from a new faculty's previous institution?  Would you be inclined to pressure your new faculty to respond to their previous institution's request to write a final report?

Sally

Sally Eckert-Tilotta, Ph.D., Associate Director
Office of Research & Program Development
University of North Dakota
PO Box 7134
Grand Forks, ND  58202
Tel:  701-777-2049
Fax:  701-777-2504
Email:  xxxxxx@mail.und.nodak.edu

>>> "Domenica G. Pappas" <xxxxxx@IIT.EDU> 07/25/00 04:56PM >>>
We had this situation at our institution.  The bottom line is that the
institution is responsible for the report.  We referred it to the chair --
the chair then found an individual to do the report (we tried to contact
the PI who left, but she was not very supportive).

At 02:45 PM 7/25/00 -0500, Sally Eckert-Tilotta wrote:
>And another question along that line:   what if the PI has left the
>institution, and the institution has no one who knows enough about the
>project to write a final report?
>
>Sally Eckert-Tilotta, Ph.D., Associate Director
>Office of Research & Program Development
>University of North Dakota
>PO Box 7134
>Grand Forks, ND  58202
>Tel:  701-777-2049
>Fax:  701-777-2504
>Email:  xxxxxx@mail.und.nodak.edu
>
> >>> Barbara Gray <xxxxxx@COFC.EDU> 07/25/00 02:34PM >>>
>And along these lines, what effective strategies are there for getting faculty
>to submit the reports?  We have one that has been absolutely impossible--and
>freezing rcurrent esearch accounts wouldn't solve the situation but, in fact,
>would probably make the PI happy because it would relieve the PI of further
>responsibility for continuing the work.  What can we suggest to the Chair
>and/or
>Dean when the PI is a tenured faculty member?
>

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Illinois Institute of Technology
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