Great question!  I'd also like to hear about any similar issues regarding difficulty in hiding salary info when using a S2S eRA solution.

Charlie

At 12:22 PM 4/20/2007, you wrote:
>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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