Business Services
Extramural support
The Office of Extramural Support is responsible for the final review of project proposals on behalf of the Board of Regents and transmittal of proposals to providers of extramural support. In addition, the Office of Extramural Support:
- conducts grant and contract negotiations and review and acceptance of all Federal and Non-Federal awards on behalf of the Board of Regents;
- administers UW-Extension project grant activity to confirm propriety of expenditures;
- maintains the extramural support database which forms the basis for Board of Regent reporting and processing resulting in the creation of accounting records to record budgets, expenditures and receipts in the General Ledgers; and
- collects receipts and prepares financial reports and invoices as well as draws against letters of credit for Federal agencies.
- Extramural Support Procedures Manual
- This manual sets forth the University of Wisconsin-Extension policies and procedures related to extramural support. Extramural support includes gifts, grants, contracts and cooperative agreements.
- Staff Directory
- Department location, fax number, phone and e-mail addresses for staff, and topics covered by each person.
- Forms and manuals
- The Office of Extramural Support is currently working toward making all relevant extramural support forms available on the internet to ease the input and processing of these forms.
- Human Subjects Protection Administration
- In accordance with federal regulations and guidelines and University of Wisconsin-Extension Institutional Review Board (IRB) Standard Operating Procedures, education on the use of human subjects in research is mandatory at UW-Extension. All faculty, staff, students, and collaborating researchers who are involved in the use of human subjects in research are required to complete the Human Subjects Research Core Education Modules.
- Effort reporting
- In accordance with federal regulations and guidelines, education on effort reporting is mandatory at UW-Extension. Effort reporting is our means of providing assurance to sponsors that: (1) salaries charged to sponsored projects are reasonable in relation to the work performed, and (2) faculty and staff have met their commitments to sponsored projects.
- Proposal Routing
- In April 2008, UW-Extension (as well as UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee) moved to a new Grants Management System. This page provides the link to get into the Wisconsin Proposal Electronic Routing (WISPER) system as well as other links regarding proposal routing at UW-Extension.