Our state COI policy covers nepotism, se we do not have the problem.  I
feel quite sure that some PI's children work on other PI's grants, and vice
versa -- but that's not a violation of the statute.

My advice would be to treat children under the same policy you treat spouses.

Chuck

At 09:31 AM 4/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>We have no nepotism policies and numerous situations of staff and faculty
>supervising their own children in summer positions, research and otherwise.
>I know  PI's in the past have hired their own children with grant funds and
>no one has "caught" it.    This time, I've been asked by a PI whether she
>can hire her high school child with grant funds this summer and we're trying
>to determine appropriate procedures.     At a minimum, we will require that
>all paperwork and time cards be signed by the department chair (or other
>appropriate administrator).    When a PI wants to pay a spouse, we require
>them to send a "family relationship disclosure" form to the agency
>(consistent with college policy requiring that these relationships be
>disclosed in all proposals which are designed to have both spouses involved
>in the research).    We could treat this situation similarly, but because
>we're talking about a high school student  I was asked to determine how
>other institutions would handle this situation.
>
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