We have a number of affiliated researchers who are allowed to apply for
grants and have a courtesy ID card, but no office space or other benefits.
Their appointment letter provides a base salary which we use in developing
grant budgets.      This would be a variation of Barbara Gray's approach.
Create a research appointment with appropriate base salary.    Then if the
institution wants to hire the part-time researcher to teach, I think the
institutional per course reimbursement could be used without being in
violation of A-21 (the same way institutions already hire two part-time
employees at different rates for different job descriptions).

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Munford House
Middlebury, VT 05753
Tel:  802-443-5889
Fax: 802-443-2081
Email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hahn, Janet M [SMTP:xxxxxx@RADFORD.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:44 AM
> To:   xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject:      [RESADM-L] Hiring a Part-time Employee for additional hours
>
> I have an additional personnel question.  I am currently creating a FAQ
> document dealing with personnel questions for our campus.  It is forcing
> clarification in a number of areas.  I came across a section of AMB A-21
> that I had managed to forget.
>
> OMB A-21 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a021/a021.html) states
> that
> "Charges for work performed on sponsored agreements by faculty members
> having only part-time appointments will be determined at a rate not in
> excess of that regularly paid for the part-time assignments. For
> example, an institution pays $5,000 to a faculty member for half-time
> teaching during the academic year. He devoted one-half of his remaining
> time to a sponsored agreement. Thus, his additional compensation,
> chargeable by the institution to the agreement, would be one-half of
> $5,000, or $2,500."
>
> This is unclear to me.  We pay adjunct faculty at a rate similar to the
> one quoted in the now venerable A-21, probably because of supply and
> demand.  If such a faculty member would also be hired for project
> coordination, that rate might be higher, based on similar salaries on
> campus.  Would we really be basing it on the lower adjunct teaching
> salary the individual was currently making?
>
> Janet
>
> Janet M. Hahn, CRA
> Executive Director
> Sponsored Programs and Grants Management
> Box 6926                               tel:  540-831-5479
> Radford University                   fax: 540-831-6636
> Radford, VA 24142-6926          xxxxxx@radford.edu
>
>
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