Executive Order 14222, intended to enhance efficiency and transparency and reduce costs in federally funded research, has instead imposed significant new...
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Financial research accounting, management, and billing activities are subject to various and evolving requirements. COGR assesses and reports on significant changes, as well as advocating for practical requirements that provide effective safeguards without undue administrative burden.
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Points to Consider for Reimbursement of Expenses Under Active Grants (V.2): Framework for Navigating the 2025 Administration Transition
Changes to federal payment systems, processes, and requirements implementing
Updated: Costing Points to Consider for Terminations and Suspensions (V.2)
Communications from federal agencies about terminations and suspensions are inconsistent with each other and often with sponsor policies and Uniform Guidance.&…
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Multi Association Letter to House and Senate Leaders on Research Relief
The letter to Congressional leaders urges the inclusion of $26 billion in supplemental funding for federal science agencies in the next pandemic relief package. The authors, representing major higher education and research associations, emphasize that COVID-19 has severely disrupted federally funded research, particularly harming early-career researchers, and existing relief funds do not cover the
Furlough Programs and Implications for Financial Research Compliance (Updated)
COGR provides a comprehensive analysis of the financial and compliance implications of implementing furlough programs at higher education and research institutions, particularly in response to the budgetary pressures brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines key considerations such as federal cost principles under 2 CFR 200, the treatment of different funding scenarios, split-funded empl
HHS & NSF Audits of FDP Payroll Certification Pilots: June 2018 Meeting
The document provides a detailed overview of audits conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Payroll Certification Systems (PCS) pilots at four universities: George Mason University (GMU), Michigan Technological University (MTU), University of California - Irvine, and University of Califo
The Politics of Indirect Costs
The provided document appears to be a lengthy, multi-part data set composed predominantly of encoded or unintelligible text, intermixed with a few recognizable words, symbols, and irregular sequences, as well as delimiters and what seem to be placeholder characters. The structure suggests that the content may have been either corrupted, encrypted, or intentionally obfuscated, making direct interpr
