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| NSF Policy on Salary Recovery - Effective January 2009 | ||
| See below for important change in how NSF is dealing with Summer salary - as well as changes in how requests for more than two months of salary need to be handled. This will certainly help with respect to effort reporting issues. Please pass on to faculty and appropriate support staff. | ||
| The National Science Foundation has posted to its website a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG, NSF 09-1) that will be effective for proposals received on or after January 5, 2009. A Summary of Significant Changes is posted with the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG). (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/gpg_index.jsp) | ||
| In this revision, NSF has addressed the COGR/AAU request for greater flexibility in charging salary by changing its compensation policy "to no more than two months of [senior project personnel] regular salary in any one year." The prior limitation to summer salary has been eliminated. If additional time is needed, NSF requires that "any compensation … in excess of two months must be disclosed in the proposal budget, justified in the budget justification, and must be specifically approved by NSF in the award notice." | ||
| In addition to the changes in compensation, NSF begins implementing the requirements outlined in the America COMPETES Act by describing a new section of the project description concerning the mentoring of post-doctoral fellows. Proposals requesting support for a postdoctoral fellow 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." The mentoring activities will be assessed in the merit review as a part of the broader impacts criteria and proposals that include a post-doc but "that do not include a separate section on mentoring activities within the Project Description will be returned without review." | ||
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