Membership:

This group is to consist of the Benefits Liaison Group and other members of the MTU community whose expertise or perspective may help the committee develop thoroughly considered recommendations. Ellen Horsch will chair the committee; Tony Rogers will serve as co-chair.

Charge:

The committee will review fringe benefits provided to faculty and research staff at MTU and other comparable institutions, and the schemes those institutions use to charge extramural sponsors appropriate portions of the benefit costs. The Committee will then review our new, recently negotiated plan for charging extramural sponsors, and consider:

  1. the effect our new rates may have on the competitiveness of our funding requests,

  2. equity in the relationship between charges and benefits for class of employees, and

  3. the consistency between our new fringe rates and our strategic goals. In the event that the Committee finds our new plan is not consistent with out goals for any of the three issues above, it is asked to recommend alternative fringe benefit cost recovery schemes.

Schedule:

This will depend on what we learn about the cognizant agency's requirements.

Membership of Fringe Benefits Cost
Recovery Planning Committee
Name
Department
Ingrid Cheney Human Resources
Mike Hendricks Accounting Services
Helene Hiner Vice Provost for Instruction
Ellen Horsch Human Resources
Bob Keen Biological Sciences
Debbie Lassila Budget Office
Jim Pickens School of Forestry and Wood Products
Anita Quinn Research/Grad School
Tony Rogers Chemical Engineering
Bruce Seely Social Sciences
Others working on subcommittee work groups:
Thomas Courtney Materials , Sciences, and Engineering
Daniel Greenlee Accounting Services
Marilyn Haapapuro Human Resources
Jay Meldrom Keweenaw Research Center
Julie Seppala Accounting Services



Mission Approved by the Board of Control

MTU's faculty will emphasize scholarship, research and inspirational teaching. Our faculty should be read and respected by leaders of science, industry, government, policy groups and business.


Goal

Goal 2: Expand our scholarship and research activities, concentrating in key areas.

Objectives:






Current vs Office of Naval Research (ONR) Approved Rates
Category
Current Rates
ONR Approved Rates
Academic Year Summer Academic Year Summer
Faculty 38% 25% 38% 38%
Soft Dollar Employee 46% _ 57% _
Post Docs 38-10% _ 38%-10% _
Temps 10% _ 10% _
Grad Students 0 _ _ _


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