Hello all-
I've been asked if we can begin including partial salary support for IT
personnel and electronic storage space on some federal grant budgets.  Our
IT department is finding that a few PIs are proposing projects that require
a significant amount of IT support without prior departmental agreement and
without time-release compensation.
I don't see a problem with including some IT costs in the budget, so long as
the work/storage space is exclusively for externally funded research, and
that the work/storage space can be easily allocated as such (most likely
through time sheets and a specific record of storage space used).
Is this a common practice at other institutions?
Thanks,
-Amy

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what
no one else has thought.
-Albert von Nagyrapolt

Amy Hibbard
Grants Administrator
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711
T: (909) 607-9313 / 607-7855
F: (909) 607-8086
xxxxxx@kgi.edu
www.kgi.edu

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