Hi Heather, I'm calling "bogus" on the caller's claim that UTSA is the ONLY university that doesn't follow this practice of having your ENTIRE Handbook (of which I'd want to see what the caller's definition of "handbook" is quite frankly first) available as a PDF...and ready 365/24/7 at anyone's beck and call? As I'm seeing others respond in kind, many of us have NSF contracts and grants applications going on all the time and I've never heard nor seen any request like this. Individual policies or specific policy areas, occasionally. But an institution's entire "handbook" as part of the grant application? Never heard of that one before (of course, this doesn't preclude it hasn't been requested somewhere in "...a dark, dank corner of some applicant's office over in the corner", maybe, out of the seven IU campuses)...but I'm inclined to think I would've heard of such a request at some point in time.
So, I'd encourage you to challenge this request as it sounds suspect, at least on the surface, to me. Best, T. Michael Ford Indiana University From: bounce-119436474-56848...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-119436474-56848...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Heather Foster Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:40 AM To: Institutional policy-related discussions (acup...@list.cornell.edu) Subject: [acupa-l] Policy Handbook PDF Hello friends, I received a call this morning requesting our Handbook as a pdf. He stated a requirement by NSF to submit a pdf of the institution's Handbook as part of a grant application. We've never had ours in a pdf, but the caller was quick to tell me we are the only university that doesn't follow this practice. Let's see a show of hands. How many of you have the entire Handbook as ONE pdf? Am I the outlier? I'm not opposed to creating one, but it would need to be at a slower time of the year. Thanks, Heather Heather M. Foster Policy Specialist II Institutional Compliance & Risk Services The University of Texas at San Antonio P 210.458.5537 F 210.458.4993 ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE list of members. If you do NOT want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to the following website and complete the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours, during normal business hours. http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html If you have questions about the ACUPA e-list, please contact Jamie Parris at jamiepar...@cornell.edu<mailto:jamiepar...@cornell.edu?subject=ACUPA%20e-list%20assistance> or 607-255-6837.
