Can the University and federal guidelines, policies, and regulations be put into a “non-technical” document for ease of understanding and to make it easier to explain to PIs?
As far as OSP policy and procedures are concerned, efforts are customarily made to translate, interpret and communicate sponsor (primarily federal) policy and procedures in as “non-technical” terms as possible. The difficulty lies in providing total coverage of all federal and other sponsor requirements. The tremendous quantity of federal policy and procedures throughout the sponsored program environment makes total coverage impractical. In order to translate “federal-ease” into non-technical terms, it often requires significantly more written space than the original federal statement; consequently, one then faces the problem of providing such a quantity of information that few have the desire to read it in order to be knowledgeable enough to follow it. OSP highly recommends a well-written manual entitled A Guide to Managing Federal Grants for Colleges and Universities, co-produced by the National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the National Council o
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