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Policy Notes:

All CU System-wide policies are available on the Administrative Policy Statements page of the CU system website.

See UCD Policies and Guidelines page for a listing of policy areas impacting Faculty and Employees at UCD or University of Colorado System Links

The former UCD "Policies and Guidelines" web page has been replaced by UCD Policies and Guidelines

Audit

Animal Research

Classified Research

Clinical Trials

Closeout of Sponsored Projects

  • Fiscal Policy 4-6, "Closeout of Sponsored Projects" - guidelines and procedures for reconciliation, reporting and close-out of sponsored projects. (PDF document; for Exhibits A & B go to UCD Policies & Guidelines - UCD Grants and Contracts section)

Conflict of Interest

Contracting

Cost Sharing

  • Fiscal Policy 4-8, "Cost Sharing" - provides guidance regarding allowable cost sharing; provides information regarding the financial and administrative impact of cost share; establishes procedures for tracking cost share commitments; and establishes the method of identifying all costs required to calculate the facilities and administrative (indirect) cost rate. (PDF document; for Exhibits A, A-1, B, B-1 go to UCD Policies & Guidelines - UCD Grants and Contracts section)
  • Award Administration with information on who to contact in G&C for assistance

Cost Transfers

  • Fiscal Policy 4-12, "Sponsored Projects Cost Transfers" - establishes guidelines and procedures for the transfer of costs between or to grant and contract sponsored projects. (PDF document; for attachments go to UCD Policies & Guidelines - UCD Grants and Contracts section)

Department of Veterans Affairs Appointments

Facilities, Use of UCD

Facilities and Administrative Costs (Indirect Costs)

Faculty Handbook

Federal Regulations

Federally Sponsored Projects; Charging Direct Costs

  • Fiscal Policy 4-7, "Charges to Federally Sponsored Projects" - establishes regulations and enforcement of Cost Accounting Standards on awards involving federal funds. (PDF document; for Exhibits A-E go to UCD Policies & Guidelines - UCD Grants and Contracts section)

Fiscal Misconduct

Fringe Benefits

Gifts

  • Gift Management Project, System Controller's website - Links to new Gift Training, Journal Entries, Setup forms and other changes to the Management of Gifts.
  • Fiscal Policy 4-18, "Gifts Received from The Children's Hospital (TCH)" - This policy and related procedures provide information on a change in the handling of TCH gift funds.
  • Administrative Policy Statement,  Gift Revenues
  • Administrative Policy Statement, Gift In-Kind Transactions
  • Accounting for information and assistance on policies and procedures

Health and Safety

Human Subjects Research

Intellectual Property (Patents, Inventions, Confidentiality, Materials Transfer)

Misconduct in Research and Authorship

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Research Service Awards (NRSA)

Payments

Preaward Project Number

  • Fiscal Policy 4-10, "Establishing a Sponsored Program/Project Without an Award Document" - establishes UCD guidelines for the establishment of a sponsored program/project prior to the receipt of the award document from the sponsoring agency (a Preaward). (PDF document; for attachments go to UCD Policies & Guidelines)

Principal Investigator

Prior Approval Requirements for Contracting with State Agencies

  • Fiscal Policy 4-19, "Awards or Subcontracts with State of Colorado Agencies" - establishes the procedure to follow to ensure appropriate F&A rates are included when submitting a proposal submission to or negotiating a contract with a State Agency. (PDF document; for attachments go to UCD Policies & Guidelines)

Proposals

Program Income

  • Fiscal Policy 4-11, "Program Income" - establishes guidelines and procedures for the identification and reporting of grant and contract program income. (PDF document)
  • Fiscal Policy 4-20, "Retaining Residual Income from Fixed-Price Contracts" - establishes guidelines and procedures for retaining residual income from federal fixed price and fixed rate contracts. (PDF document)

Purchasing

Record Retention

  • Fiscal Policy 5-4, "Accounting and Financial Records Retention and Access" - establishes guidelines and procedures for the retention and access of UCD accounting and financial records. (PDF document; for attachments go to UCD Policies & Guidelines)

Residual Income from Fixed-Price Contracts

  • Fiscal Policy 4-20, "Retaining Residual Income from Fixed-Price Contracts" - establishes guidelines and procedures for retaining residual income from federal fixed price and fixed rate contracts. (PDF document)

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Fiscal Policy 4-13, "Roles and Responsibilities for Grant and Contract Administration" - establishes guidelines for the roles and responsibilities of principal investigators and their departments, and the Preaward and Postaward staff of Grants and Contracts in the administration and management of sponsored projects. (PDF document)
  • Administrative Policy Statement,  Fiscal Management Roles and Responsibilities 

Routing and Approval

  • Fiscal Policy 4-5, "Sponsored Projects Application/Proposal Approval Process" - delineates responsibilities for the approval of UCD applications for extramural funding and program sponsorship. (PDF document; for attachments go to UCD Policies & Guidelines)
  • Basics of Routing (Proposal Review & Endorsement)

Sponsored Research

Stipends

Subrecipient Monitoring

  • Fiscal Policy 4-17 "Subrecipient Monitoring" - Timely ongoing communication with and ongoing monitoring of organizations subcontracted by UCD.

Transferring to and from UCD

Travel