Hi Amanda,

You mentioned that your institutional practice is to include escalations for salaries for faculty/staff/graduate assistants along with the graduate assistant tuition. I was just reading the NIH policy, and I think that a possible reason of your institution receiving a reduced award is that NIH treats tuition as a cost of living.

“Non-competing awards will be issued without cost of living/inflationary adjustments in FY 2012; however adjustments for special needs (such as equipment and added personnel) will continue to be accommodated.    This policy applies to all grants (research and non-research) when applicable.”

Although my institution does include the annual merit increase blurb in the budget justification, we do not budget for the tuition increase.

Sincerely,
Evgeniia Kagramanova | Grants Administrator
Framingham Heart Study | Boston University School of Medicine
Office: 617-358-0092

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Hello,

We received a five year award from NIH NHLBI. Our institutional practice is to include escalations for salaries for faculty/staff/graduate assistants along with the graduate assistant tuition. The expected increases are provided to us from our Budget Office. Again, our office is young and this is my first experience where I received an award that removed those increases. I did email the GMS and I received the response that the salaries and graduate student compensation reflects future year escalations that was not associated with an increase in effort or justified with an additional explanation. This is really concerning especially at the thought our graduate assistants won’t be covered fully in the future years (tuition does increase each year). Also, cutting out our merit increases for our faculty means their effort will decrease over the course of the grant. Does anyone have any advice or experience to share?

I appreciate your help!

Amanda Buker
Grants Coordinator
Office of Research and Creative Activity | EAB 203H
University of Nebraska at Omaha |www.unomaha.edu<http://www.unomaha.edu/>

402.554.2650
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