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Class Codes and Definitions for Sponsored Awards
These are the only codes that pertain to Sponsored Awards

Prepared by the Cost Reimbursement Office

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11000 Instruction

All instructional and related activities.
  • Course preparation and grading
  • Teaching and training activities
  • Degree, certificate or non-credit courses or programs
  • Community Education
  • Preparatory/Remedial Instruction
  • Instructional activities within the University or to groups external to the University
  • Activities that provide basic knowledge or skills required prior to undertaking formal academic course work
  • Course and curriculum improvement activities

    • Examples:

    • A grant to create educational materials (i.e. text books, manuals, books for classroom use)
    • Assembling training materials and/or programs
    • Training of Nurses

16000 Research Training Grants

  • Training of individuals in research techniques.
  • Pre- and post-doctoral training awards
  • Fellowships
      • Examples:
    • NIH Awards with the following prefixes: F-31, F-32, T-01, T-02, T-22, T-31, T-32, and T35
    • SOME NIH R03 Awards for Dissertations with 8% I/C
    • NSF-IGERT (Research Training awards from NSF)

There are three basic characteristics of a Research Training Grant/Fellowship:

  1. The individual is not a permanent employee of the University. Their involvement is as a trainee. In most instances, the award is made to an individual who is not the PI in the eyes of the UM.

  2. Stipends and/or Tuition are the primary budgeted expenditures.

  3. The award document includes verbiage of sponsor or mentor.

CAUTION: Awards titled "Fellowship" or "Research Training" by the sponsor may not fit the University's definition of Research Training Grant. Often an award issued to a faculty member or researcher is Organized Research.

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Research and Synonymous terms:
Consider   Explore   Observe   Study   Develop    Investigate  Probe   Discover   Look into    Search   Examine     Make inquiries   Seek

22000 On-Campus Organized Research

  • Research sponsored by federal and non-federal agencies and organizations
  • Managed within academic units, institutes, or research centers
  • 50% or more of UM employee personnel effort (as measured in dollars) is performed in facilities owned or leased by the University
      • Examples:
    • Writing and/or analyzing the findings of research already performed under a separate award
    • NIH Career Development Awards (K awards)
    • Developing training programs that are not course and curriculum development. See Class 11000.

      Comparison Examples
    • Example of 22000: Develop training program to teach researchers in a foreign country to be better researchers.
    • Example of 11000: Develop course program materials for a joint program in Social Work and Public Health (a for credit course).

22100 Off-Campus Organized Research

  • Research sponsored by federal and non-federal agencies and organizations
  • Managed within academic units, institutes, or research centers
  • 50% or more of UM employee personnel effort (as measured in dollars) is performed in facilities neither owned nor leased by the University. DOES NOT include effort of non-UM employees (i.e. Sub-contract employees)

22200 Clinical Trials

  • Human clinical trials of an Investigational New Drug (IND) or device as defined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Testing of dental material in a clinical setting

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31000 Public Service, Other Sponsored Activity

  • Activities that provide a service to the public
  • Activities funded by external sponsors for access to University resources

      Examples:
    • UM Employees acting as consultants at Lucent Technologies
    • IPA Agreements
    • NIH R13 Grants for Scientific Meetings
    • Conferences that DO NOT meet guidelines for instruction/training grants/research
    • Award to distribute research findings (i.e. conference, seminar).

    Excludes activities that are properly classified as Instruction or Organized Research

     

    Hints to Determine Class and Facilities and Administrative (Indirect Cost) Rates

    1. CONSISTENCY is the key to assigning the appropriate Class code to a sponsored award. All "like circumstances" must be coded the same.

    2. The ACTIVITY performed determines the appropriate I/C rate.

    3. Review the ACTIVITY performed, and then select the most appropriate Class description.

    4. When a little bit of each activity is performed in the course of the sponsor award, determine the greatest activity, and assign that Class and related indirect cost rate.

    5. An award for writing the results of research already performed should also be research. The majority of the awards include the writing in the funding.

    6. Awards issued to Specialized Service Facilities (Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project and Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine)-- use Class related to activity performed (i.e. Research, 22000), not the SSF Class (45000). And assign the On-Campus Organized Research I/C rate [53% for 2003-2006]. Only the direct cost expenses that relate to the rebilling operation of the SSF's are to use Class of 45000.

    7. For Parent/Sub relationships, the same Class relationship must be used

    8. For questions or clarification, please contact the Cost Reimbursement Office at (734) 764-6243. Additional information is available on the Cost Reimbursement Website: http://www.finops.umich.edu/CRO/index.htm

    Questions? Contact to Cost Reimbursement or your DRDA Project Representative.

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