VOLUME III, ISSUE 12– DECEMBER 2015
In This Issue NEWS & UPDATES Message from the OSP Director
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IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES Sub-award and Vendor Agreements 2 Training the Future Research Administrator 4
American University’s aspiration is to become a premier global research university, providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment. As part of this
Message from Jim Casey, OSP Director
vision, AU encourages dialogue and discovery, where the values of
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integrity, excellence, inclusiveness, respect, collaboration and
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innovation are fostered.
Reminder: Memos Outlining Distribution of F&A Costs on Sponsored Projects The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) manages sponsored projects
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MEDIA OSP Photos: A year in review OSP Staff Assistant Spotlight
This is a reminder that if PIs and theirresearch deans/units want to arrive at agreements to that move AU toward becoming a world-leading university. distribute (overhead) coststheonfollowing specific sponsored Reflecting thisF&A goal and AU’s own ideals, values are built projects, the deans of the relevant academic units should sign a memo at the proposal stage outlining the into OSP’s daily operations: specific agreement terms. This memo should be transmitted to OSP during the proposal routing process for inclusion in the proposal file. High Performance: Members of the OSP staff perform their duties in an efficient, accurate,
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and professional manner. Critical to high performance clear Having a memo in the proposal file, if the isproposal is funded, ensures that it is easy communication, follow-up andRelying attention on to detail. to implementeffective the agreement. phone calls or emails to illustrate the agreement six months, or a year, or a longer period down the road, is not the Caring Attitude towards and Students: of the agreement. Often times, reconoptimal method forFaculty, quickStaff implementation Members ofof thean OSPagreement staff treat all faculty, and students witharespect andmemo, consideration. struction in thestaff future, without written is very difficult. As an additional reminder, the implementation of the agreement is done by the Sense of Uniqueness andunit(s) Pride: in coordination with the Budget Office. relevant academic OSP has a unique and central role in furthering the sponsored projects
enterprise, which it accomplishes by adding value and quality to everything it does. OSP provides solutions to the challenge Thank you in advance for being proactive on this issue. Partnership with Faculty, Staff and Students:
Jim Casey Members of the OSP staff value open communication, the development of professional relationships, teamwork and furth OSP Director Excellent Service:
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OSP staff realize that the success of AU researchers is their own success. OSP staff strive to provide superior, ever improvin