Interesting...I think I would only support this model if the dept/college didn't have any formal, experienced pre-award and/or post-award support in house.

If the central office has the bandwidth, staff, and the support of the higher-ups to handle this model, I think it could work.

Pros: awards are handled by experienced staff; quicker turn around on institutional review/endorsement.
Cons: central office isn't familiar with PI and their personalities/m.o.; central office is not in close proximity to the PI/ dept which could lead to communication issues.

But I am an advocate of having a formal research administration infrastructure at the local/departmental level in place that works in collaboration with the central sponsored programs office. This promotes and encourages a culture of consistent research administrative professionalism throughout the institution.

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Office of Sponsored Programs
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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Natasha Stark
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1975 12:06 PM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Out of Curiosity

We were having some "water cooler" conversation among ourselves here in the office, and an intriguing question came up that I would like to have some feedback on from my fellow research administrators.

Do any of you know of, or work in, a central office where colleges and/or departments are offered the ability to "opt-out" of managing their projects in house, in exchange for surrendering their share of the indirects they would have otherwise received for doing so? In other words, do you give a college the option to let the central office staff handle the post-award management with the understanding that the associated indirects would stay with the central office?  Could such a model work?  Pros and cons?

All thoughts are welcome.  If you don't want to respond here, please feel free to email me at xxxxxx@kennesaw.edu.

Thanks!

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