Outside the Box of Effort Reporting - Past, Present and Future

90 Minutes: The administrative burden placed on faculty and institutions performing research continues to be a major area of concern for the research enterprise at the federal and university level.  Publications from the National Science Board (2014), National Academies of Sciences (2015), and the Federal Demonstration Partnership (Survey in 2005 and 2012) have reported or documented the extent in which the administrative burden placed on faculty can hinder the affordability and facilitation of science.  One intent of the Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) was to address these burdens by streamlining policy requirements and focusing on research outcomes.  Will universities adopt the changes available to them in the Uniform Guidance to help reduce research burden?  

This webinar will discuss Effort Reporting – often viewed as the most confusing and burdensome administrative task placed on faculty.  An overview of the most common after-the-fact methodologies will be reviewed, as well as the importance of building an internal control framework around compensation and strategies for implementation.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Understanding of traditional effort reporting

Participants will gain:

  • a better understanding of alternatives to effort reporting
  • an increased awareness of balancing compliance and audit risk
  • strategies for successful internal controls processes
  • insights into the institutional decision making process for alleviating faculty administrative burden


Linda Gregory

Interim Director, Grants & Contracts Office, Post Award Administration

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lisa Mosley

Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Projects

Yale University

Jeremy Forsberg

Assistant Vice President of Research, Office of Research

The University of Texas at Arlington

David Ngo

Associate Provost

The New School

Jayne Goby

Assistant Director, Grants & Contracts Post Award Administration

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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