If the award pays the tuition for the attendees, I would think the
institution should provide the services of an interpreter.

At 03:25 PM 07/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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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