Reading these inquiries from the sidelines, I am curious about the different
approaches used by various institutions to allocate indirect costs to the
different levels within their organizations.      While a list of the
distribution levels would be informative, I sense from the respondents,
that making any kind of a change from their existing levels has been met
with significant resistance.   Do you agree?   How change can  be
implemented successfully would be of greater  interest.   Any ideas?

Gary P. Naegel
Administrator, Department of Pharmacology
Yale School of Medicine
(203) 785-4373
xxxxxx@yale.edu
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From: RESADM-L
To: Multiple recipients of list RESADM-L
Subject: Indirect cost disbursement
Date: Tuesday, November 01, 1994 8:48AM

 We are looking into the possibility of changing the way our indirect cost
money is disbursed. Currently, nothing goes back directly to the PI or the
division. Our disbursement looks like this:

53% remains with the Research office for operating expenses; 25% is given to
the school/college; 15% goes to the appropriate vice president; 05% goes to
the President; 02% goes to the Vice President for Fiscal Affairs.

We would like to see a portion go directly to the principal investigator.
Before we ask everybody to give up a percentage of their indirect cost money
(I can hardly wait!), we would like to get an idea of what other
institutions
are doing in that regard, particularly, how much, if any, your PI's or
divisions are receiving. Also, if a portion is being given back to the PI,
how
do you deal with co-PI's?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Pam Fillmore, Research Analyst; Research and Grants Center; Emporia State
University; Emporia, Kansas; xxxxxx@ESUVM.BITNET