The University of Delaware requires PI's to enter the proposal and
upload all required documentation into FASTLANE.  From the department
end of it, the dept. administrator may assist or even complete this task
for the PI, however, the central research administration office does NOT
participate.

Susan Tompkins

Rosemary Ruff wrote:

>
> At one time  (Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away... ok couldn't
> help myself, sorry), this was the "hot topic" on RESADM-L.  As far as I
> can tell, it hasn't been revisited in recent years.  Does your central
> sponsored programs office provide complete Fastlane support for NSF
> proposals.  By that I mean, do your preaward administrators prepare,
> upload, and forward to OSP (yourself) for review and submission, the
> entire proposal - budgets, C&P, Project Summary, Description, etc.?  I
> recently had a Dean say to me that he understood /most/ universities
> don't even require their faculty to login to Fastlane for proposals; the
> investigator only logs in if an award is received so that postaward
> reports, requests, etc. can be submitted.
>
> While I seriously doubt that /most central offices/ do all of the
> proposal for the faculty - soup to nuts so to speak - I realized that I
> haven't any idea what percentage of universities actually do handle the
> entire proposal creation and submission for their investigators these days.
>
> I'd appreciate it if you would respond to me off list with:
>
> /We do it all for the investigator
> We assist the investigator as requested/required to get the proposal
> correct and submitted on time
>
> /Feel free to add comments that might clarify exactly what services you
> provide for Fastlane submissions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rosemary
>
>
> Rosemary H. Ruff, Director
> Research Support & Sponsored Programs
> 120 Ozark Hall
> University of Arkansas
> Phone (479) 575-3845
> FAX (479) 575-3846
>
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