ASU Tempe/Downtown Academic Senate

1. ASU Tempe/Downtown Academic Senate Motion to Approve ACD Sections 510-02, 510-04, and 002 (“Institutional Base Salary”) As Revised.

2. Background • NSF Audit of Funded Labor Cost Management, in February • Major Target: Intra-University Consulting • Need for Policies that Meet NSF, OMB Standards Without Avoidable Restraints on Research Arrangements • PC Worked with OVPR, ORSPA, GCO, as well as Research Center Administrators • PCs of West, Polytechnic Coordinated

3. ACD 510-02 [Old 510-04] • “Supplemental Pay Policy” [replacing “Supplemental Instructional Activity”, also 511-02, “Temporary Salary Adjustments”] • Key: Excludes “intra-university consulting”. • Extends coverage to Regents’ Profs, admin roles, etc. • Intra-U Honoraria: $1500, tops. [Exception exists.]

4. ACD 510-04 [New] • “Intra-University Consulting”. • Rare; Collegial help is the norm. • For exceptions, the policy creates a list of requirements. • Explicit approval by grant agency trumps own-grant-consulting and non-intra-departmental limits. [!] • New question: should condition #2 be “subject to the provisions of paragraph 1 above, and OMB Circular A-21”? • Policy otherwise mirrors OMB language for maximal flexibility.

5. ACD 002—One Definition to be Added • “Institutional Base Salary”—no definition existed in prior ACD. • “…base annual compensation set by ASU for an individual’s appointment…” for all activities. • “IBS may not be increased as a result of replacing ASU salary funds with grant or contract funds.”

6. Thank You