Cost sharing is the amount of the total project cost which is paid from university funds to meet the award agreements as outlined by the federal agency. This study examines the issue of cost sharing as it applies to the responsibilities of the university and the federal agency on a federally funded research project. / The objectives of the study were the following: (1) to examine the cost sharing practice of a single university in order to identify any undocumented cost; (2) to bring evidence to support or reject the hypothesis: the perceived cost sharing of a university exceeds the documented cost and is therefore rendered counter to congressional intent; (3) to provide to the field of institutional research a means by which questions concerning the university's and the state's role on cost sharing may be addressed; (4) to determine the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of a group of principal investigators regarding the research climate of a given university. / In order to meet these objectives, three distinct definitions of cost sharing were used: agreed cost sharing--indicated on the award document; reported cost sharing--indicated on the Faculty Activity Analysis Report; and perceived cost sharing--provided by the principal investigator in an interview. The latter definition distinguished the comparison from an auditing problem. This comparison identified the undocumented costs and demonstrated that the perceived cost sharing of a university exceeded the documented cost. This is counter to legislative intent which is that neither the institution nor the federal government should make a "profit" nor take a "loss" as a result of performing research. / The field of institutional research may assist the state and federal governments by analyzing the cost sharing posture at universities. The present study provides to institutional researchers a framework to better understand cost sharing and a method by which questions concerning cost sharing might be answered. It is beyond the scope of this study to make policy suggestions to improve the balance of cost sharing by federal and state agencies. / In an attempt to explain some of the differences with respect to the objectives, the analyses of data were broken down by the natural sciences and the social sciences. The thirty-three principal investigators included in the study had a university contribution on their 1978-1979 research project funded by the federal government. The relative satisfaction or dissatisfaction of these groups of principal investigators was determined through the results of the interview. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, Section: A, page: 0874. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74122 |
| Contributors | MARTIN, MARY PATRICIA., The Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 132 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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