At our institution we sometimes encounter
difficulties in setting or justifying salaries
for those employed for grants.  The wide salary
range, for example, of biology technicians,
creates some problems between the numbers
tossed out by our personnel department, the
numbers used by our faculty researchers to
attract skilled, experienced, workers, and
the demands of the granting agency.  It would
be of GREAT help to us if RESADM readers
would participate in this SHORT Questionnaire.

Responses will be accepted with gratitude in
any format, snail mail, fax, or e-mail, to:
Rick Francis, Office of Research, Univ.of
Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, fax 419-537-7893,
e-mail => xxxxxx@uoft02.utoledo.edu.  Thanks.

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QUESTIONNAIRE    Positions Supported by External Funding

1.     Are professional positions created
 for specific grant and contract activities
 placed in same institutional classifications
 as other University employees of the same type?

 a.      Do these employees receive the same
 benefits package?

 b.      Do these employees receive the same
 rate of pay increase as regular University
 employees in the same classifications?

 c.      Do these employees receive limited
 contracts with no obligation from the
 institution for continued employment?

 d.      Do these employees accrue vacation?

2.      Does your institution use any of the
 following job titles for untenured,
 professional positions?  (Please check
 the ones applicable to your institution.)
 ____
 ____   Postdoctoral Fellow
 ____   Research Technician
 ____   Postdoctoral Research Assistant
 ____   Research Assistant Professor
 ____   Postdoctoral Research Associate
 ____   Research Associate Professor
 ____   Research Assistant
 ____   Research Professor
 ____   Research Associate
 ____   Director
 ____   Dean
 ____   Other _____________________________________
 _____________________________________

3.      How is the compensation structure applied
 to determining the salary of any of
 these positions?

 a.      Is the level of academic training
 the deciding factor? (i.e. level
 is determined by terminal degree.)

 b.      Is there a discernable degree of
 ability to work independently?
 If so, how is it determined?

 c.      Is there a defined structure that
 accommodates all the positions that
 have been created by are supported
 by externally funded grants
 and contracts?

 d.      How are salaries determined for
 University staff involved in work
 at federal laboratories?

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Please send responses in any format (snail mail,
fax, or e-mail) to: Rick Francis, Office of
Research, Univof Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606,fax
419-537-7893, e-mail => xxxxxx@uoft02.utoledo.edu.