Faculty at small colleges still have 9 months of salary. Many soft-
money folks have none....
I don't see how anyone could survive in a soft-money position with
only 2 months support on any one grant!
On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:44 AM, malcolm McCallum wrote:
By limiting salary reimbursement to 2 mo in any given year, they are
significantly biasing the ability of researchers at smaller schools to
get funding. I can't imagine this would stay in effect too long
because the same rationale caused the match on equipment grants to be
removed. Essentially, it was determined that requiring a match caused
small schools to be unable to compete. Small schools also have
significantly higher teaching requirements making competition for
funds even harder at these smaller institutions.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, David Inouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The new version of the Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 09-1 January 2009)
is
available on the NSF web site:
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/gpg_index.jsp>http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/gpg_index.jsp
One change may affect a number of ecologists on soft-money
positions or
those seeking sabbatical salary.
Scroll down about half way to g. Budget, (i) Salaries and Wages,
(a) Senior
Project Personnel Salaries and Wages Policy. The second paragraph
is what's
new.
This is also in the summary of significant changes:
Chapter II – Section C.2g(i), Salaries and Wages, has undergone a
major
revision of NSF's salary reimbursement policy. In general, the
Foundation
will now limit salary compensation for senior project personnel to
no more
than two months of their regular salary in any one year. This limit
includes
salary compensation received from all NSF-funded grants. This
change moves
away from the concept of summer salary and allows for reimbursement
of two
months of salary per year whenever appropriate during the year.
A second issue that will affect lots of PIs is a new requirement to
specify
how postocs will be mentored: (note that without this, a proposal is
returned without review!)
Chapter II – Section C.2d(i), Project Description, has had entirely
new
guidance added regarding mentoring activities. This was done to
address the
mentoring requirement of the America COMPETES Act. Each proposal that
requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include,
as a
separate section within the 15-page project description, a
description of
the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals.
Examples of such activities are provided and the mentoring plan
will be
evaluated during the merit review process, under the Broader Impacts
criterion. Proposals that do not include a separate section on
mentoring
activities within the Project Description will be returned without
review.
The Proposal Preparation Checklist (Exhibit II-1) and Chapter IV.B.
on
Return without Review have been updated to reflect that.
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