RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROGRAMS:Why does the University

have more than one office?

Presented byMike Sisco, Agricultural Experiment Station

Kathy Scheibel, Research & Sponsored Programs

1862 – Morrill Act - Provided Public Lands for Colleges benefiting Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts

1871 – The State of Arkansas created the Arkansas Industrial University – Now UAF

1887 – Hatch Act – Authorized Agricultural Experiment Stations

1914 – Smith Lever Act – Authorized the Cooperative Extension Service

1959 – UA System created the Division of Agriculture 1962 – McIntire-Stennis Act – Authorized the School of

Forest Resources (housed at UA-Monticello) 1977 – AES Grants Office created to handle USDA

grants

History of Agriculture

Three Offices

◦ Research and Sponsored Programs Office Size: Director, Assistant Director, 6 Grant

Specialists, Administrative Assistant

◦ Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Grants Office Office Size: 2 Specialists

◦ Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Grants Office Office Size: Director, 2 Pre-Award Specialists, 2

Post-Award Specialists

Processing Sponsored Research

Processing Sponsored Research

AES◦ All USDA grants◦ Commodity Boards◦ Research

Foundations (AGRI related)

◦ Industry for AES faculty

RSSP◦ All federal sponsors

NSF, NIH, DoD, DoE, etc.◦ All State sponsors

ADHE, ADHS, ADE, etc.◦ Industry for campus Faculty◦ Foundations that are

sponsored projects ◦ Undergraduate and

Graduate Fellowships (i.e. SURF and NSF)

0403’s, 0133’s, 0103’s, 0313’s, etc.◦ CRIS project accounting (What is CRIS?)

How many proposals submitted in FY12?◦ 340 Proposals

How much funding received in FY 12?◦ $25,000,000 (1/3 USDA awards, 1/3 Commodity Boards, 1/6 Other

Federal, 1/6 Industry) Some awards may include campus faculty

600-650 active grants at any given time In Target Chain Approval

◦ All BASIS transactions go through AES◦ All award project set ups (establish CCNs) are processed

by AES for Research Accounting verification/approval

AES Grants Office

0402’s, 0412’s, 0132’s, 0152’s Processed 683 proposals in FY12 Received $47,523,240 in funded projects for FY12 453 total additional awards from FY12 RSSP prepares documents for Research

Accounting to establish CCNs and process transactions◦ Kathy is the approver for RSSP of all CCN transactions

i.e. new award, no-cost time extensions, any changes to the CCN

Research & Sponsored Programs

Federal Reporting NSF expenditures combines RSSP and AES Annual FY awards include both RSSP and AES

projects◦ National rankings and goals to be top 50 Public

Research University◦ The purpose for showing these combined

awards is to reflect the total awards from the University.