Scott and Larry,

As a public institution with a faculty union, this is viewed differently.  A consulting agreement would only be feasible if they meet the following rules:
 1) Does not impede on their regular work hours
 2) Does not use any institutional facility, equipment, supplies or personnel
 3) Does not use and/or highlight their institutional affiliation in any of their correspondence
 4) Includes this as outside employment in their report

And even this makes me nervous.  There are so many ways that this could come back on the institution in a negative light.

Cheers,
Rene

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Rene Hearns, PhD (cand), MPA, CRA
Director, Grants and Sponsored Programs
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Scott Niles
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 1:10 PM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Taking work outside

Hi Larry,

At my institution, any work faculty does outside of the university is not governed by our sponsored programs office. Working directly with the agency would fall under their consulting allotment.

As far as faculty requests to defray or eliminate F&A from a budget, it's at the discretion of our Associate VP for Research to approve or deny, but obviously the onus is on the faculty to provide compelling justification for such a request.

Scott Niles, MA, CRA
Grants and Contracts Administrator
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Morehead State University
901 Ginger Hall
Morehead, KY 40351
Phone: 606-783-2278
Fax: 606-783-2130
Web site: http://www.moreheadstate.edu/research

On 3/5/12 12:51 PM, "Lawrence Waxler" <xxxxxx@USM.MAINE.EDU> wrote:

>With an increasingly tight fiscal environment, we have employees who
>have been approached by agencies to do more work for less (what a surprise).
>As you might expect, our F&A rate is an increasing target.
>
>In some cases, those employees have been asked to do the work
>themselves outside of the University, or have suggested such, in an
>effort to lower the cost.
>
>Do any of you have policies that address this issue?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Larry
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