Good Afternoon All,

I am looking for any and all input as we are working on best practices in our office and would love to know how you would handle this situation.

On an NSF REU award - specifically the participant support portion - would you consider it allowable to pay registration fees for a workshop for GRE prep training for participants directly to faculty members by way of disbursements charged against the participant support portion of the award?

On one hand, I look at it as similar to paying for the participant to go to a conference, but on the other hand there are strict guidelines about employees of the grantee institution not being paid from the participant support portion of the award. Would it be allowable if the workshop was hosted by someone who was not employed by the university? Would you encourage the PI to charge to the main account versus the participant account?

I *think* I know what I would do in this situation but would love to have opinions/ideas and other perspectives on whether you would or would not allow it.

I look forward to hearing your responses! Thank you in advance.

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