I have seen overload policies that appear to work.  They do not increase
the base pay; they merely allow payment of a supplement for an identified
overload.  Most limit it to one semester.  They all require approval at a
high level of academic management.  They could not be used to augment
faculty salary for taking on a federal sponsored program except in the
unusual case where the overload results from the federal project and the
project is very time constrained.  Even then, I would strongly consider, if
a case arose where we'd want to apply it to federal funding, having
recognition of the unusual overload nature written into the funding instrument.

Chuck

At 10:38 AM 1/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Our University is reviewing its policies on allowing faculty to get
>overload pay.  This means that faculty could get their 9-month academic
>year salary, 3 months of summer salary, and then, in addition, they
>could apply to the Provost for "overload" salary.  These applications
>would be reviewed on a case by case basis.  My question is are there any
>federal regulations which prohibit federal grant money from being used
>for faculty overload pay?  I see in the NSF guidelines that grant funds
>"may not be used to augment the total salary....of faculty members
>during the period covered by the term of faculty appointment."   Thank
>you.  Linda Brown
>
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