We received private funding (with a 10% administrative fee) to sponsor a
summer workshop for teachers.  It is financially self-supporting and
attendees get graduate credit.  One of the students is deaf, so our
Disabilities Services Office was asked to provide an interpreter (who
cost twice what we recovered in administrative fees).  Since this was a
self-supporting summer program, we have been asked why the interpreter
costs were not built into the grant budget.  (Note that, for our regular
academic programs for which students pay tuition, interpreter services
are provided by the institution.)

Is the interpreter service an indirect cost?  Why would a sponsor--even
a private one--want to pay for a service that is normally provided by
the institution, unless the funded project is specifically designed to
serve persons with a disabiltiy?  If this should have been treated as a
direct costs and put in the grant budget, should we start budgeting for
interpreter services for all public performances and lectures in case
someone with a hearing impairment comes?  How would one ever predict the
financial need for that without looking like one is padding a budget?

Any thoughts are greately appreciated!
Barbara

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