ROWAN UNIVERSITY POLICY
Title: Principal Investigator (PI) Eligibility
Subject: Office of Sponsored Programs
Policy No: OSP: 2018:
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Applies: University-wide
Issuing Authority: Provost & Senior Vice President for
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Academic Affairs
Responsible Officer: Vice
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Chancellor for Research
Adopted:
Last Revision:
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12/
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2025
Last Reviewed:
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12/
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2025
I. PURPOSE
To establish Principal Investigator (PI) eligibility for submission of externally funded grants.
II. ACCOUNTABILITY
The Vice President Chancellor for Research shall implement this policy, and the Director for the Office of Sponsored Programs Assistant Vice President for Sponsored Research and Administration shall ensure compliance with this policy.
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This policy applies to all faculty, employees and students of the University and grants and sponsored projects.
IV. POLICY
- Eligibility for Principal Investigator (PI) Status
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- PI status is granted to all
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- tenured and tenure-track faculty (all ranks) tenured and tenure-track librarians (all ranks); research faculty; incoming tenure-track faculty or research faculty whose start date begins in the following term; deans, associate/assistant deans; chairs and heads; clinicians with faculty appointments; and full-time administrators, full-time managerial staff, and full-time professional/technical staff who have permanent position appointments. Any time spent engaging in work on grant activities by professional, support, or administrative staff must be performed as overload and not within the confines of regular assigned activities, unless there is prior approval of the cognizant Vice President and ensuring there is no additional compensation provided for such activities.
- Post-doctoral
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- associates are only eligible for PI status if their supervisor serves a major role (such as co-PI or senior personnel) on the grant.
- Lecturers, instructors, visiting scholars, teaching faculty, adjuncts, emeriti faculty, and instructors are not eligible for PI status
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- . Undergraduate and graduate students are not eligible for PI status
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- but may be permitted to conduct sponsored projects under the direction of a faculty advisor
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Process for a Petition to Grant PI Status
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Prospective PIs should first consult their chair and dean regarding the potential of being PI. Upon approval, they should follow university procedures for receiving internal approval to submit through the Cayuse SP grants management system. Chair and Dean approval of the Cayuse record indicate their acceptance and approval of the applicant’s request to be PI.
- Eligibility for Co-PI Status
- A Co-PI is an individual involved with the PI in the scientific development or execution of a project. A Co-PI typically devotes a specified percentage of time to the project and is considered "key/senior personnel." The designation of a Co-PI, if applicable, does not affect the PI’s roles and responsibilities as specified in this policy statement. Academic tenure-track, adjunct, emeriti faculty, employees with term appointments (e.g.
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- , instructors, post-doctoral associates, visiting scholars, etc.), and other regular employees can serve as Co-PIs on sponsored projects.
- Eligibility for Key Personnel on Federal Awards
- Key Personnel must report any foreign financial support and may not be party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program.