Our business office is currently in the process of developing a policy to
enforce lead time requirements for approval signatures which would - in
effect - lengthen our internal grants approval process and impose a grants
submission deadline.  I think such deadlines are unenforcable and
undesirable.  The job of our grants office is to facilitate grants
submission, not impose barriers - and PIs have major time investments in
grant proposals.  While we specify that PIs should allow at least seven
working days for internal reviews - and we yelp at late submissions - we
always submit viable proposals.

I know that the list has discussed this subject in the past, and I've found
those e-mails, but I'd really appreciate a large number of you briefly
answering these three questions and providing the names of your
institutions:

1.  Does your institution enforce grants submissions deadlines?

2.  Why or why not?

Thank you........

John McCann, M.P.A., Ph.D.
Academic Grants Manager
Office of the Academic Vice President and Provost
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505

E-mail: xxxxxx@evergreen.edu
Phone: 360-867-6045
Fax: 360-867-6745

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