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Sponsored Programs - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR GUIDE
Appendix A - INSTITUTIONAL USE OF Facilities & Administration (F&A) FUNDS
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Investment of F&A Funds
In keeping with clear legislative intent, the Facilities and Administrative (F&A) funds recovered from university sponsored grants and contracts will be used to support the research enterprise at MSU. As an aspect of our fiscal responsibility to our university and the state, it is critically important for MSU to ensure that institutional fixed costs commitments will be covered each year. Therefore, before any distribution, recovered F&A funds will first be used to support institutional fixed costs, which include debt service, lease payments, administration of grants and contracts, library e-journal support, information technology support, and administrative overhead support.
Every month, after the monthly pro rata portion of annual institutional fixed costs has been funded, the remaining funds will be distributed according to the established distribution formula.
Recovered F&A generated by academic departments* will be distributed in the following percentages:
Principal Investigator: 10%
Department Head: 30%
College Dean: 10%
Vice President for Research: 50%
Distribution of funds to Extension faculty assigned to academic departments will be negotiated between the College Dean, Vice Provost Outreach and the VP Research.
Funds distributed to academic units should be used to support research in the academic department. The VP Research share of distributed funds will be applied to variable institutional commitments such as faculty startup packages, scholarship and creativity grants, college block grants, clinical research development program, undergraduate research awards and facility renovations.
Commitments of F&A funds to institutional fixed costs will be recommended by the F&A Investment Committee each fiscal year, discussed at UPBAC and submitted to the President for approval.
Exceptions to the investment and distribution procedure outlined above must be negotiated with the Vice President for Research.
*Academic departments are defined as those units that administer academic degree programs.
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