Research Compliance

 

Effort Certification

The certification period is from October 14-November 13, 2009

Effort Reporting is our means of providing assurance to research sponsors, including the federal government that:

  • Salaried charges to sponsored projects are reasonable in relation to the work performed
  • Faculty and staff have met their commitments to the research project

In a climate of frequent audits, headlines about major fines and more on the horizon for 2009, the UT System leadership believes that a system-wise move to a nationally-proven effort certification system is the best way to reassure sponsors that research in UTD continues to be a wise investment. For researchers, this "three clicks and you're done" system is the best of both worlds:

  • it looks similar to the current system to avoid confusion
  • it is faster and easier to certify effort than the current system

 

Updated: October 13, 2009