Thanks, Gary. This is a terrific presentation of this important point. Kim Kim Moreland, Director Grant and Contract Administration Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Avenue, N M/S J6-500 Seattle, Washington 98109 xxxxxx@fhcrc.org 206/667-4868 (voice) 206/667-6221 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: Chaffins, Gary [mailto:xxxxxx@ORSA.UOREGON.EDU] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:18 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] What is 100%? For the higher education community of this group. Unless you have a non-forecast pay and/or an hourly reporting system for your faculty labor; instead of a percent of effort after the fact reporting system, you may find that the use of hours where faculty time is involved can have some very serious negative results. First of all, at our institution, our faculty effort is listed as percent of time in proposal budgets for both direct labor charges and cost share purposes. For academic contract appointment and payroll purposes they are appointed on a percent basis. Their regular appointment for payroll and activity reporting purposes totals 100%, regardless of the number of hours necessary to meet the needs of their assignments. Their assignments may include instruction, research, public service and institutional administrative appointments. If you are confusing the use of percent and hours for the same faculty member, I don't think you are unique but I suggest caution and consideration of the following. I made a presentation the other day to one of our high volume grant units which was struggling with faculty level of effort issues and the misunderstanding about faculty time commitments. One of big concerns was over commitment of faculty time (never happens anywhere else of course). Previously we had identified some apparent faculty confusion related to percent of effort and their sometimes interchangeable use of hours when the topic was labor. In order to address the potentially expensive differences between counting faculty hours rather than percent of effort, I prepared the attached PowerPoint presentation for the group. I think the difference between our faculty talking about their time in hours has been clarified to some extent. I hope the attached is useful for this topic. Gary Chaffins Director, Office of Research Services and Administration 5219 - University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-5219 Voice (541)346-2395 FAX (541) 346-5138 E-mail xxxxxx@orsa.uoregon.edu e-----Original Message----- From: William Campbell [mailto:xxxxxx@UWRF.EDU] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:06 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] What is 100%? Betty and RESADMers-- At University of Wisconsin-River Falls, full-time faculty carry the equivalent of a 15 credit load--12 hours teaching, 3 hours research/service. Therefore, when I write budgets for proposals requiring matching funds, I frequently include those three hours for the PI or PD under the institution's contribution. A caution--at our place, the 15 hour load is not always well-understood. And some folks have a hard time understanding matching funds, also--when I write numbers in the matching column, some think that the university will pay them those dollars in real money. So I've learned that workloads and matching funds are concepts which require lots of preliminary explanation. Regards, Bill Bill Campbell Director, Grants & Research University of Wisconsin-River Falls 715/425-3195 xxxxxx@uwrf.edu >>> xxxxxx@STJOHNS.EDU 01/30/03 01:31PM >>> Dear Friends: At your institutions, what constitutes 100% time and effort for faculty? Do you figure percentages of release time based on teaching load only, or does your institution identify a portion of the faculty member's time as devoting to research and/or service? Thanks for any answers. If you wish to reply directly, my email is below. Betty Farbman St. John's University xxxxxx@stjohns.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================
