Course Description
The following is a brief list of the significant items covered in each class in both the beginner and advanced tracks. Click on the topics to expand details.
Beginner Track
- Who is involved in managing sponsored projects at the University of Maryland
- Overview of research policies
- Sponsored project activity types and award vehicles
- Parts of a proposal
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Budgets and budget justifications
- Proposal routing
- Human Subjects
- Animal Research
- Environmental Safety, Sustainability, and Risk (ESSR)
- Setting up an award
- Subawards
- Cost sharing
- Initial award considerations
- Cost transfers
- Effort reports
- Reconciliation
- Reporting
- Project spending: equipment, consultants and ongoing management of procurements
- Travel
- Oversight of subawards/subrecipients
- Coordinating final deliverables and closing subawards
- Record retention
- Audit preparedness
- After-the-fact project analyses
- Identifying errors and strategizing about problem prevention
- Whistleblower rights and responsibilities