>
>I am forwarding this query to the LIST for a fellow memeber who is having
>difficulty posting it to the group.  Replies can be made directly to her
>through email (xxxxxx@ksumail.kennesaw.edu) or to the listserv.
>
>>Subject: FELLOWSHIP ISSUE
>>
>>Help . . . .I know that someone out there has an answer to this question.
>
>>Have any of you had experience with faculty who have been awarded a
>personal fellowship, like an NEH, Guggenheim or ACLS?  We have faculty
>interested in pursuing these fellowships, but we have no experience with
>how this works, audit wise.  These fellowships are typically for smaller
>sums that are less than what the faculty are making.  They wouldn't be
able to accept
>unless they somehow are able to maintain their same salary level, while
>working on the fellowship (we do not provide sabbaticals).   I have heard
>that at some other institutions faculty have somehow "turned over" the
>fellowship monies to the institution, and the institution continues to pay
>their regular salary for the period of the fellowship.  The fellowship
>monies, hopefully,  are enough to cover the replacement costs..  The
>college/university benefits in having a faculty receive these prestigious
>awards, and that's their motivation for supporting them.
>>
>>This senario raises several questions:
>>
>>Can  the check be made out to the institution, rather than to the
individual?
>>If not, our accounting people say this creates huge problems.
>>
>>Have your faculty "turned over" the monies to the institution (how),  and
>then maintained their normal salary during the fellowship period?  If so,
>what about the taxes on the fellowship?  Faculty would not want to pay them
>on their salary AND on their fellowship that they turned over to the school.
>>
>>Or . . . have your faculty accepted the fellowship monies directly, and
>the institution paid the difference to the faculty, to bring them up to
>their actual salary level?  If so, what happens to their benefits,
>retirement, etc.,  i.e., if paid say 50% of their salary?  Can they still
>maintain their full level of benefits?  Does this create
>accounting/auditing problems?  People here think it is unlikely that they
>can pay benefits on work performed and paid for by other than the
>university.  (We are a state institution)
>>
>And finally, for untenured faculty, does the period of the leave of absence
>during the fellowship still count toward promotion/tenure purposes?
>>
>>I would greatly appreciate guidance on this matter.  I need to present the
>"solution" to the powers that be, rather than the problem.  You can respond
>to me directly, if you choose, and I will be happy to post responses.  This
>may be a "matter of course" with larger universities, but here, we have no
>experience with this matter.
>>
>>
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>Jacqueline Givens
>Director of Contracts and Grant Support
>Office of Sponsored Programs
>Kennesaw State University
>1000 Chastain Road
>Kennesaw, Georgia 30144-5591
>Phone:  (770) 423-6036
>Fax:  (770) 499-3263
>Email:  xxxxxx@ksumail.kennesaw.edu
>
>
Barbara S. Henry
Manager, Contracting Support Division
Office of Contract Administration
Georgia Institute of Technology
400 Tenth Street, NW   Room 241
Atlanta, GA 30332-0420
Voice:  404/894-6944
Fax:  404/894-5285
http://www.gatech.edu/oca/