Our faculty had a 4-block load per semester. Three courses and a
research/scholarship/public service block. They were allowed to buy-out
that 4th block.

The department funds that it freed up were then available for other uses
in the department or college.

On 10/16/2020 2:55 PM, Vicki Krell wrote:
> Ours seem to vary by department/unit. A lot of our faculty only request
> summer salary (i.e. Chemistry, Physics), while others (Psychology, etc.)
> request academic year support also. I think that a lot of those
> decisions are based on discussions with Department Chairs on whether
> they can buy out of teaching responsibilities during the academic year
> or not.
>
> *Vicki Krell, CRA*
>
> *Assistant Director, Research Advancement*
>
> *The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences*
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> *Arizona State University*
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> *On Behalf Of *Jesse Szeto
> *Sent:* Friday, October 16, 2020 11:39 AM
> *To:* xxxxxx@LISTS.HEALTHRESEARCH.ORG
> *Subject:* [RESADM-L] Do your 9-month faculty regularly charge some %
> effort during academic year to their grants?
>
> At my institution, most of the faculty have 9-month appointments.  As a
> result, when any of them has a grant, if they charge any salary to the
> grant, it is only summer salary that they charge since that could mean
> an additional 1-3 months' worth of salary for them.
>
> However, in almost all cases, none of these faculty charge any salary to
> the grant during the ACADEMIC YEAR, indicating that they are not working
> on the grant from September to May.
>
> When I asked a PI about this, he responded by saying that he didn't want
> to charge any academic year salary to the grant since the University
> pays for it already, so why would he "waste" the grant money like that?
>
> This is problematic to me in the following ways:
>
> 1.  Given this situation, we are supposed to believe that a PI only does
> research during the summer, even though the grant itself runs throughout
> the year, including paying for grad students, lab supplies, etc.  To me,
> this sounds as though the University is "cost sharing" the PI's academic
> year effort.
>
> 2.  Based on #1, this means that the University is deprived of potential
> salary savings it could have generated during the academic year if the
> PI had more realistically charged some portion of his/her salary to the
> grant.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1.  What is your institution's policy on this, especially for your
> faculty with 9-month appointments?
>
> 2.  Do you have a minimum effort requirement?
>
> 3.  What are the pitfalls of requiring or at least strongly encouraging
> faculty to charge some portion of effort to the grant during the
> academic year?
>
> Thanks folks!
>
> Jesse
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