Re: Research Investment Susan Meslang 27 Jun 2005 09:59 EST
This is a very interesting concept. I would like to see your results. I would also like to see how others compute this amount. Susan W. Meslang Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs Tidewater Community College 500 East Main Street Norfolk VA 23510 P.O. Box 9000 Norfolk VA 23509 Office 757 822-1773 Cell 757 409-2887 Fax 757 822-1007 xxxxxx@tcc.edu >>> xxxxxx@VERIZON.NET 6/24/2005 1:43:54 PM >>> As we are all aware, our institutions participate in "research investment" by direct investment or "covering the losses" of unrecovered indirect cost between full indirect recovery and less than the full rate. I would appreciate your sharing, where possible, the following (and I will be happy to report back in the aggregate): 1. What percentage of your research expenditures is direct investment by your institution (for example, recruitment packages, direct support for departmental or institute operating costs, etc.)? 2. What percentage of your research expenditures is unrecovered indirect cost and what is the percentage of the underrecovery?For example, if you have research expenditures totalling $50Million and your indirect cost rate for full on-site is 50% on an MTDC base of $45 ML, you should be recovering fully $22.5ML. Because of training, foundation grants, etc., you are actually recovering only $15.5 ML, then your underrecovery is $7ML. That $7ML is 14% of your total research expenditures of $50ML, and, therefore, is a research investment of 14% by your institution. The second part of the question would be an answer of 31.1% underrecovery --- You collected $15.5 ML instead of $22.5 ML. Hopefully, this isn't as complicated as it may sound. I realize that training costs are not as high as laboratory costs, etc., making the assumptions above a bit general, but the responses will give us global information on institutional commitments. Please feel free to share any comments on this general topic as our institutions remain committed to research, but find the demands on their revenues ever increasing without directly proportional increases in those revenues. Please indicate what type of institution you are and your research expenditures category as follows: TYPE Independent Hospital Medical Center University College Independent Research Institute Other RESEARCH EXPENDITURES $ 3ML and under $ 5-10 ML $10 - 20ML $20 - 50ML $50 - 100 ML $ 100 - 200 ML $ Over 200 ML Thank you very much. I hope that you will all be interested in the results generated by this survey. Diane Diane C. Gilbert Interim Vice President of Research Administration Tufts-New England Medical Center 750 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 TEL: 617-636-7692 EMAIL: xxxxxx@tufts-nemc.org ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================