At 08:25 AM 5/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>A philosophical question for general discussion:
>>
>>Why should a central university office review and approve proposals before
>>they are submitted to external sponsors?

From a financial perspective, our office of Research helps generate the
budgetary information for all sponsored Research and is the Backup for the
Restricted Funds Accounting Office on all Grant matters.  In otherwords, we
have a place to turn, when there is a misunderstanding of the specifics of
the grant terms.
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