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UW faculty and staff are encouraged to help improve grant and contract proposal and award administration by participating in upcoming meetings and completing a Web-based survey planned for May.
The improved administration of sponsored research proposals and awards eventually will include design and use of a comprehensive electronic system. The effort is being undertaken by the Office of Research, along with the Office of the Executive Vice President, through the Grant and Contract Administration Process Engineering Team, or PET.
Vice Provost for Research Alvin Kwiram pinpointed several goals in his charge letter to the team:
“ It is imperative to push ahead as quickly as possible toward a careful definition of the changes needed in our operating systems and procedures,” Kwiram wrote in his letter. “ The work of the team will provide the foundation for the subsequent development of the grant and contract administration infrastructure component of the larger University Initiatives Fund project on administrative systems.”
The team, which began its work in November, already has received considerable input from principal investigators, school and department administrators, and central administrators. It has received 150 responses from its initial e-mail survey. Now, to expand its information gathering activities the team has created a Web-based survey and scheduled nine open meetings at numerous locations around the metropolitan area. All interested UW faculty and staff are invited to attend whichever meeting is most convenient. The meetings are as follows:
Also, the Web-based survey will be available throughout May at URL http://www.washington.edu/user/gcsurvey. Participants can complete parts or all of the survey in multiple sessions, if they would like. Faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in the survey even if they attend one of the open meetings.
Members of the PET are: Donald Allen, director, Grant and Contract Services; Ann Anderson, director, Grant and Contract Accounting; Mary Beth Cunningham, administrator, Research Center in Oral Biology; John Drew, manager, Computing and Information, The Graduate School; Roberta Fraese, manager, Division of Gastroenterology; William Hall, manager, University Services Renewal; Mary Lidstrom, professor, Chemical Engineering and associate dean, College of Engineering; Vicky Palm, director, Grants and Contracts, College of Arts and Sciences; Janet Rasey, professor, Radiation Oncology and director, Research Funding Service; Walter Ruzzo, professor, Computer Science and Engineering; and Michael Vitiello, professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and chair, Faculty Council on Research.
Questions concerning the PET or its activities may be referred to Assistant Provost for Research Donald Baldwin at (206) 543-5164; fax (206) 685-9210; or dbaldwin@u.washington.edu. ¶