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Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A Costs)
How is F&A calculated?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on an Industry Affiliate Program (IAP)?
How is F&A calculated?
Are there exceptions to using the institutional negotiated F&A rate?
When is the “Off-Campus” F&A rate applicable?
How do I determine if my project should be classified as either “research”, subject to the Organized Research rate, or “testing”, subject to the Other Sponsored Activities rate?
What is the appropriate F&A Rate for State of Illinois GOMB agencies?
When will the university accept a sponsor limited rate?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on corporate sponsored projects?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on an Industry Affiliate Program (IAP)?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on a foreign-sponsored project?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on non-profit organizations?
If the F&A rate changes between the time of proposal and award or during the course of a project, which F&A rate should be used?
What is the appropriate F&A rate to use when a project is being transferred from another institution?
Is F&A assessed on fellowships?
How is F&A calculated on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) proposals?
Do we exclude tuition remission costs when the F&A rate is less than our negotiated rate?
Can the difference between a reduced F&A rate and our negotiated rate be used as cost sharing?
What rate should I use for a subrecipient who does not have a negotiated F&A rate?
Is F&A assessed on sponsorship supporting a visiting scholar or student?
What is the F&A rate for industry-sponsored clinical trials?
What is the F&A rate for the use of the Campus Computing Cluster or the use of contracted cloud services?
What is the appropriate F&A rate for use on a joint appointment with a national lab or federal agency?
Cost Sharing
Do “cost sharing” and “matching” have the same meaning?
Do costs claimed as cost sharing have to meet the same cost principles as costs reimbursed by the sponsor?
Can I cost share my effort if the university is receiving no funds from a project?
Can I use “waived” facilities and administrative costs as cost sharing?
Does the central campus support provide cost sharing?
Are there limits to what I can propose as cost sharing?
Why is the university concerned with excessive cost share?
Does voluntary committed cost sharing include commitments in the proposal’s budget justification?
Do any sponsors or programs prohibit voluntary committed cost share?
My award does not reference the cost share commitment in the budget/budget justification, does it need to be tracked?
If I include or increase effort in my NIH Just in Time (JIT) budget, is it considered committed cost share?
Effort and Compensation
What are the key components of the effort and compensation policy?
Who is affected?
What do our peers do?
Eligibility to Serve as a Principal Investigator (PI)
Does this policy cover multiple-principal investigators and co-principal investigators?
Can an emeritus or retired faculty member serve as a principal investigator?
Can a student serve as a principal investigator, multiple-principal investigator, or co-principal investigator?
Can a cooperative extension specialist serve as a principal investigator?
Can a postdoctoral research associate or research fellow serve as a principal investigator?
Can a newly hired faculty member serve as a principal investigator on a proposal in advance of their employment contract start date?
Can a civil service employee serve as a principal investigator?
Can a principal investigator be changed?
Does the Principal Investigator (PI) for an IACUC animal use protocol have to be the same person as the Responsible Person (RP) for an Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) registration?
Can an affiliated individual with a 0% appointment serve as a principal investigator?
Can I serve in a dual role as PI and/or Co-PI for both the University and a third party (i.e. sponsor or subrecipient) on a sponsored project?
Crowdfunding
Should you pursue crowdfunding?
Why would a researcher use a crowdfunding platform?
Can you use the university's name and logo?
How can you use crowdfunded dollars to support research at Illinois?
How can you improve your chances of success?
Business Policies & Guidelines
Sponsored Programs Administration
Cost-Sharing Guidelines
Faculty Start-Up and Recruitment Funding
Summer Salary and Effort Reporting Guidance - 2023
Non-Disclosure Agreements
Research Administration FAQs
Data Sharing and Transfer Guidance