William &  Mary will allow a researcher to submit a proposal if
he/she has an office in a department, with dept chair oversight,
even if that person is not paid by the department or college yet.
Obviously some of these are spouses of a tenure-track faculty
members.  We allow that person to use his own name on the
proposal.  We've had a fair amount of luck with some of these
people, including one who paid for half of a calendar year salary
from his NSF proposal (the chair set the 'salary' amount based on
a resume and an interview with the researcher).
 We have also allowed one-year-visiting faculty submit proposals
with the understanding that it must be an agency that will transfer
the award if it is made and that person is now at another college.
This carries the small risk that the person may not *get* another
appointment but might get an award, but frankly with the odds
against getting any proposal, we haven't worried about this yet.
 FWIW, we have one dept. where the chair insists upon being the
PI, with the other person as Co-PI.  But this is a chair's call.  Most
let the person be PI and that's it.

Anne Womack CRA
Director of Sponsored Programs
Grants and Research Administration
P.O. Box 8795
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

xxxxxx@wm.edu
(757)221-3967 (phone)
 -4910 (fax)

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