Greetings,

Here at Cornell, particularly in my department it is required that all
administrators protect the salary information of faculty investigators
collaborating on a grant application.  Sometimes even the PI of a grant
application is kept in the dark about salary information of collaborating
investigators so to protect the privacy of our faculty.  This practice
makes it less likely for Division Chiefs and Department Chairpersons to
be approached by forward faculty who want to know why their
colleague(s) (or newly recruited faculty) compensation packages are
not equitable to their own.

What we have recently learned however is when a PI's electronic
grant application is funded, the information that "we" put into the
respective budgetary forms becomes "public knowledge" to the PI
when they log into the commons (when in the past we could asterisk
and/or mask the requested dollar amounts.)  Some might argue that it
is the right of the PI to know how much personnel is costing his/her
grant, but what about the scenario where a very junior faculty member
writes an application which involves paid effort from the dept. chair or
another senior faculty member?

Is anyone else finding that this is a problem?  If so, how are you
managing it?  Please feel free to respond to me directly at
xxxxxx@med.cornell.edu.

Thanks,

Michelle A. Lewis, M.S.
Research Administrative Manager
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
E-mail: xxxxxx@med.cornell.edu

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