Please, not in front of the children.

Spanky

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[mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of K.Monae Consulting
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:15 AM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Grant Approvals

I'm not particularly grouchy about this either...but I could hug you for
this post right now! LOL

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On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:46 AM, Mike McCallister <xxxxxx@GRANTSTREETSERVICES.COM>
wrote:

> I've found over the years that the smaller the school, the more signatures
you have to get.  My personal best is a school with 12 signatures.  No
kidding, 12.  Great big schools?  Maybe 3-- Chair, Dean and Designated
Signatory.  All those extra signatures are silly in our opinion, but those
who sign want desperately to be seen as part of the CONTROL function, even
though when something goes wrong all that poop slides downhill onto the
research administrators head.  "You should have known."  Right, that's why a
secret is called a "secret."  Trying to reduce the institution's standing
plan for signatures is just like poking a bunch of bears with a stick.
Everyone wants to appear to be involved, even when it is screamingly obvious
their participation is just window dressing.  It just makes me nuts, but
then this is also the nature of organizations that is replete with amateur
administrators-- none were trained to manage anything and they meet the
clueless standard far too of!
 te!
> n.
>
> Not that I am particularly grouchy about this.
>
> Really.
>
> Spanky
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> [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Gregory K.
> Schmidt
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 8:39 PM
> To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
> Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Grant Approvals
>
> In my humble opinion, there are several on your list I'd drop.
>
> 1.  President
> 2.  VP of IA
> 3.  VP Student affairs
> 4.  VP Enrollment
> 5.  VP Admin
>
> I would add
> 1. School dean/Dept chair
>
> That's 3 approvals, maybe 4.  Why so few?  Do you really think the
President reads all grant apps?  Why would Student affairs need to approve
a grant about Wombats?
>
> Give those I took off the list a monthly report (PI, Title, Sponsor, $,
etc.).
>
> The more signers on a document, the less reviewn there actually is.  If
the Pres signs off, who will say no?  I'm an overworked VP of Student
Affairs.  I don't have time for this!  Surely the VP Admin will catch
anything wrong.  I'll sign and pass it on.
>
> Don't think it happens?  Every single org I've either worked for, or
consulted has had these issues.  Every one of them with errors.
>
> "xxxxxx@mcdaniel.edu" <xxxxxx@MCDANIEL.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Quite a while ago (perhaps almost a year) I sent an email out asking what
sort of lead time your office/school requires for the grant approval
process. I am revisiting that topic, as I am trying to prepare a policy
change for my institution.
>>
>> Who at your institution has to sign off on a grant for it to be
submitted? Oddly enough, our institutional policy does not include the PI or
the Department Chair. Right now we require:
>>
>> *   Director of Grants (myself)
>> *   President
>> *   Provost
>> *   VP for Administration and Finance
>> *   VP for Institutional Advancement
>> *   VP for Student Affairs
>> *   VP for Enrollment Management/Dean of Admission
>>
>> As you can imagine this takes a lot of work and coordination, and policy
has always been a 30 day lead time on all grants submitted. If any one of
these people objects, changes have to be made to the proposal or it simply
does not get submitted.
>>
>> I figure as we are trying to transition to electronic approvals, it is a
good time to make other changes as well. Any data I can have from other
institutions, especially small PUI's/Liberal Arts institutions, would be
extremely helpful.
>>
>> Thank you for all your input!
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> **********************************************
>> Robin N Dewey, MS, CRA
>> Director, Office of Academic and Government Grants McDaniel College
>> 2 College Hill
>> Westminster, MD 21157-4390
>> Voice: 410-386-4699
>> Cell: 585-797-8536
>>
>>
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