>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.
>
>===============================================
>
>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?
>                       YES

>      a.      Do these employees receive the same
>              benefits package?
 YES>
>      b.      Do these employees receive the same
>              rate of pay increase as regular University
>              employees in the same classifications?
 YES>
>      c.      Do these employees receive limited
>              contracts with no obligation from the
>              institution for continued employment?
>                        YES

>      d.      Do these employees accrue vacation?
 YES>
>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
>      __X__   Research Assistant (mainly grads and ug students in sci)
>      ____   Research Professor
>      ____   Research Associate
>      __X__   Director
>      ____   Dean
>      ____   Other _____________________________________
>                   _____________________________________
>
>
>3.      How is the compensation structure applied
>        to determining the salary of any of
>        these positions?
>                       All standard institution/MN state standards apply
>      a.      Is the level of academic training
>              the deciding factor? (i.e. level
>              is determined by terminal degree.)
>                       Partially--the state has standards that apply
>      b.      Is there a discernable degree of
>              ability to work independently?
>              If so, how is it determined?
>                       Depends on where the position falls in the
 university structure--usually have autonomy
>      c.      Is there a defined structure that
>              accommodates all the positions that
>              have been created by are supported
>              by externally funded grants
>              and contracts?
>                       All standards apply
>      d.      How are salaries determined for
>              University staff involved in work
>              at federal laboratories?
>                       Not applicable

>-----------------END--------------------
>
>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.
>
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Live long and prosper.   >:-I

Nancy Kay Peterson
Director of Grants
Somsen Hall, Room 202-C
Winona State University
Winona, MN  55987
Phone:  507/457-5519
FAX:    507/457-5586
e-mail: xxxxxx@VAX2.winona.msus.edu