I am a faculty member working on a sponsored project. If I don have to certify uncommitted cost sharing, will I still be reporting 100% effort on my effort statement?
Yes. You, other faculty and PIs of non-faculty rank (senior researchers) will still be reporting 100% of your effort on the statements. You will not, however, be identifying and assigning uncommitted cost-shared effort to specific projects as you did in the past. Prior to changes made by the federal government (OMB) in 2001, uncommitted effort had to be identified and tracked project-to-project. Now, uncommitted cost-shared effort is lumped together in an unidentified way with all other effort on non-sponsored accounts. The federal government’s reasoning when they made the change was that a precise documentation of faculty effort is not always feasible, nor is it expected, because of the inextricably intermingled functions performed by faculty and the imprecise nature of the data concerning the amount of uncommitted cost sharing.
Related Questions
- The policy change that uncommitted cost sharing does not have to be certified -- does this apply to PIs and other faculty, anyone working on a sponsored project, or only to the PI?
- If someone voluntarily works on a sponsored project and the individual was not included in the proposal, is it necessary to certify the effort?
- If someone voluntarily works on a sponsored project and was not included in the proposal, is it necessary to certify the effort?
