Dear Susan,

I believe cost sharing of F&A would be related to your institution's
policy on F&A exceptions: whenever you recovered less than the full
rate, the residual would of necessity be cost-shared.  And conversely,
you couldn't "cost share indirects" unless the exception was in
accordance with your F&A policy.  At Wright State, we basically allow an
F&A exception if it's the sponsor's policy or, in the interest of
state/local economic development, if the sponsor is "Ohio-based" (even
commercial firms get this break) -- see
http://www.media.wright.edu/wrightway/5305.html.  So far we have not had
to make exceptions to these exceptions!

With respect to cost sharing faculty time, that is a different issue and
you may be asking whether we have any guidelines on how much is too
much.  We would leave this decision up to the relevant dean.

A good source for general guidance is found in the University of
California Contract and Grant Manual Chapter 5, at
http://www.ucop.edu/raohome/cgmanual/chap05.html.

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William Sellers, Director
Research & Sponsored Programs
Wright State University
3640 Col. Glenn Hwy., 122 Allyn
Dayton, OH  45435-0001
937-775-2709 (voice)/937-775-3781 (fax)
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Susan Burke wrote:
>
> since it looks like everyone is up and posting today, i have a
> question for a quiet friday afternoon: how do you control cost
> sharing - particularly cost sharing of indirect costs - in your
> institution?  who makes the decision?  if there is a written
> policy, would you share?
> thanks for any and all help on this....
> susan
>
> --
> Susan Burke
> Sponsored Programs Specialist
> School of Engineering and Applied Science
> The George Washington University
> 725 23rd Street NW, Suite 109
> Washington, DC 20052
> Telephone: 202/994-1805
> Fax: 202/994-6669
>

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