Since the summer tutoring is not part of their academic contract nor
institutional base salary, would anyone consider this incidental and not
include in effort reporting?

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Donald M. Campbell, CRA
Director, Office of Contracts and Grants
University of San Francisco, MA 119
2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: 415.422.5368
Email: xxxxxx@usfca.edu

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Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] 2/9th Rule - NSF

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
Office of Contracts and Grants
Woodbury 401, 572 UCB
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0572
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[mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Hicks, Tammy
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 9:15 AM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
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
(804) 287-6080 fax
xxxxxx@richmond.edu

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