Hi, Tammy--

The NSF rule only applies to funds from NSF itself, so you could still pay the stipend to your faculty members out of your institutional funds. The only problem would be if the time commitment needed to mentor the students (which I would presume is minimal, on the order of 5% or less) would put their committed time over 100% for the summer. (If, for example, they had summer funding from both NSF and another funder that amounted to three full months, or close enough to that level that the mentoring commitment would put them over the cap.)

Michael Spires, M.A., M.S., CRA
Principal Proposal Analyst
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Subject: [RESADM-L] 2/9th Rule - NSF

Hi all,

I have a question concerning the 2/9th rule. Below is the information from the PAPPG (NSF).

My university will pay our faculty a minimal summer stipend for mentoring students over the summer. (Between $1,000 and $3,000, depending on the number of students). This stipend is NOT part of their academic year salary.  If a faculty member is already being paid 2/9th of his/her salary for the summer from grants, would paying this additional stipend be allowed under NSF policy? There is no change to objective or scope of the project. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Tammy

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(i) Salaries and Wages (Lines A and B on the Proposal Budget)

(a) Senior Personnel Salaries & Wages Policy

NSF regards research as one of the normal functions of faculty members at institutions of higher education. Compensation for time normally spent on research within the term of appointment is deemed to be included within the faculty member's regular organizational salary.

As a general policy, NSF limits the salary compensation requested in the proposal budget for senior personnel to no more than two months of their regular salary in any one year. This limit includes salary compensation received from all NSF-funded grants. This effort must be documented in accordance with 2 CFR § 200, Subpart E. If anticipated, any compensation for such personnel in excess of two months must be disclosed in the proposal budget, justified in the budget justification, and must be specifically approved by NSF in the award notice budget.18 Under normal rebudgeting authority, as described in AAG Chapters II and V, an awardee can internally approve an increase or decrease in person months devoted to the project after an award is made, even if doing so results in salary support for senior personnel exceeding the two month salary policy. No prior approval from NSF is necessary as long as that change would not cause the objectives or scope of the project to change. NSF!
 prior approval is necessary if the objectives or scope of the project changes.

These same general principles apply to other types of non-academic organizations.

Tammy Hicks
Director of Grants Accounting
108 Puryear Hall
University of Richmond
(804) 289-8752 phone
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