Pre-Award Shared Services (PASS) | Sponsored Programs Administration

The Pre-Award Shared Services (PASS) Coordinator provides specialized support to participating units, directly assisting faculty with proposal preparation and customizing tools and processes to encourage the pursuit of external funding.

Kathie Veach is the PASS Senior Coordinator, and additional information is available upon request.

PASS Participating Units

College of Law

1-853

Law

1-694

Law Library

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

LAS

1-303	African-American Studies	1-577	American Indian Studies
1-241	Anthropology	1-404	Asian American Studies
1-441	ATLAS	1-461	Center for African Studies
1-954	Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	1-276	Center for Writing
1-218	Cline Center for Advanced Social Research	1-489	Communication
1-932	East Asian and Pacific Studies Center	1-405	Economics
1-499	English	1-680	Gender and Women's Studies
1-563	Global Studies	1-451	History
1-522	International and Area Studies Library	1-302	International Forum for US Studies
1-580	LAS Administration	1-729	Latin American & Caribbean Studies
1-729	Latina/Latino Studies	1-397	Life Sciences
1-968	Neuroscience Program	1-715	Philosophy
1-710	Political Science	1-723	Program in Jewish Culture & Society
1-652	Medieval Studies	1-652	Russian, East European, & Eurasian Center
1-553	Sociology	1-895	Spurlock Museum
1-583	Statistics

Literatures, Cultures, Linguistics

1-514	Classics	1-771	Comparative & World Literature
1-362	East Asian Languages & Cultures	1-748	English as an International Language
1-985	French and Italian	1-927	Germanic Languages
1-864	Linguistics	1-490	Religion
1-958	Slavic Languages & Literature	1-585	Spanish and Portuguese

School of Illinois Global Institute

1-461	Center for African Studies	1-535	Center for Global Studies
1-954	Ctr S. Asian & MidEast Studies	1-932	E Asian & Pacific Studies Cntr
1-345	European Union Center	1-522	Illinois Global Institute
1-729	Latin American & Carib Studies	1-553	Russian, E European, Eurasn Ctr
1-411	The ACDIS Program	1-597	Women & Gender in Global Persp

College of Media

1-408	Advertising	1-934	College of Media Administration
1-KT1	Illinois Public Media	1-238	Institute of Communications Research
1-642	Journalism	1-436	Media and Cinema Studies

Resources

Resource	Office	Description
Campus Budget Guidelines	OBFS	Information related to Salary Rate Increases, Integrated and Value-Centered Budgeting Model, Budget Increases & Assessments, Investment For Growth, Control of Funds During FY 2020, Allocation of ICR Funds, Budgeting Endowment Income, Restricted Funds, Conclusion
SPA Budget Template - FY22	SPA	Includes worksheets for General, General - Detailed, USDA-NIFA Cap, USDA-APHIS Cap, Component - Detailed, Cost Share, and UIC Component. Select options from the yellow boxes at the top. F&A will calculate automatically.
Rates (F&A, tuition remission, fringe benefits, etc.)	OBFS Government Costing	Links to OBFS Government Costing Rates pages, including explanation of current F&A, fringe benefit, and tuition remission rates (current and historic), and the State of IL GOMB F&A rate (current and historic), explanation of costs, copies of negotiated letters and agreements, plus additional info about the Distribution of F&A Recoveries (ICR)
Service Rate Database	SPA	A resource to find, add, and maintain services (and the associated rates) on campus
Sponsor Limited R&A Rates	SPA	A published list of known and acceptable sponsor restricted F&A rates
ACES Office of Research	ACES	Support for interdisciplinary proposals (2+ disciplines or depts., 3+ PIs) and first‐time submissions for junior faculty
Campus Research Board	OVCRI	List of upcoming internal funding opportunities
Graduate College (OEF)	Graduate College	The Office of External Fellowships offers one-on-one reviews of proposal drafts.
Office of Research Advising and Project Development (RAPD)	OVCRI	Robust programs and opportunities to advance research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including research/project design, book writing groups, grant seeking assistance, and proposal preparation and submission services. Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields (HARF).
Illinois Research Connections	OVCRI	On-Campus Researcher Connection tool
Limited Submission	OVCRI	OVCRI approves those projects approved for submission when the program limits the number of proposals from the institution - the Office of Proposal Development (OPD), the Graduate College, and other Units are often delegated responsibility for the internal call for proposals
NIH Clinical e-Protocol Writing Tool	NIH	A resource for behavioral and social science researchers to prepare research protocols for human studies measuring a behavioral or social outcome or testing a behavioral or social science based intervention.
NIH Decision Tool: Am I Doing Human Subject Research?	NIH	A resource that helps to identify whether the project involves Human Subjects.
NIH Matchmaker	NIH	Match investigators with NIH Program Officers to help/support.
Office of Foundation Relations	OFR	Assistance with technical writing and funding opportunity searches for research with foundation sponsors
Office of Proposal Development	OPD	Assistance with proposal development for strategic proposals
Proposal Opportunity Listserv	OVCRI	Emails of upcoming funding opportunities and other research-related information
Research Development Council (RDC)	OVCRI	The Illinois Research Development Council is a network that strengthens awareness of campus research resources, promotes activities and events, and ultimately helps to support the productive conduct of research at Illinois.
Research IT @ Illinois	Tech Services	List of university resources/services for research computing and data needs: Amazon Web Services: Cloud Computing and Applications Blue Waters: High Performance Computing Copyright: University Compliance Data Center Shared Services: Support to operate a Data Center XSEDE: High Performance Computing Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP): High Performance Computing Illinois Data Bank: Data Repository Research Data Service: Assistance with Data Management Plans Scholarly Commons: Assistance with Technology-Intensive Research Training on Research IT @ Illinois: Get Started Guide
Reimbursement Rates for Travel Expenses	OBFS	Institutional rates for travel reimbursement
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)	OVCRI	IPRH supports interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences—work that leads to a deeper understanding of people, societies, artifacts, and events, locally as well as globally, in past and present contexts.
Center for Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS)	OVCRI	The Center for Social and Behavioral Science works with members of the university research community to develop new, innovative research projects; create interdisciplinary networking groups; and foster the small pilot studies needed to support external funding proposals.