[Plsfaculty] Question about grant budgeting and effort

[Baltrus, David A - (baltrus)]

Hi all,

As I sit down to think about grant budgeting...finding myself thinking a bit (confused isn't the right word...) about the line from faculty meeting about writing 5% of salary into the budgets and just wanted to clarify:


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That this refers to non-summer salary (cost share challenges and issues aside...). This would be in lieu of summer salary effort or in addition to summer salary effort?
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What's the incentive for us to do this because:
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does this free up money for SPLS to do other things or does this just come off the top for how much CALES pays to SPLS? (e.g. SPLS still gets given our full salary but that money goes into a different pool, or does SPLS get less money for salary if that salary is covered other ways). If the latter, that's a CALES problem and we shouldn't actually do this unless they make us. If it's an SPLS gets more money thing, I think we should have more voice into SPLS money decisions. If SPLS gets more money and we do include this money in the budget, some of us will be voluntarily sacrificing research value for the greater good of SPLS. I say this as someone that's currently in a position to benefit from others doing this, but that doesn't seem fair or equitable across all faculty as currently described.
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3. What's to stop this from ratcheting into us being higher and higher percentages soft money? Once you start, easy to keep going with higher and higher percentages.
4. For real though, what are the clear and tangible reasons for any of us to do this?

-d

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