MRAM-Announcement

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services has resumed premium processing for H-1B visa petitions from institutes of higher education.

Starting 7/24/17, eligible petitioners can file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker. Form I-907 can be filed together with an H-1B petition or separately for a pending H-1B petition.
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This is a reminder that GCA has scheduled a Q&A Brown Bag for this Wednesday, July 19, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Foege N130A.

The topics to be covered during this session are:

• Transition to Workday
• Milestone Invoicing
• Department-Submitted Invoices
• Updating Campus Contacts in Grant Tracker
• Temporary Budget Extensions vs. Extensions to Advance Budgets
• Q&A

Hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

The Grant Analyst Group

Grant & Contract Accounting

Grant Tracker will be down from 7:00pm on Friday, July 7^th, until Sunday evening for biennium crossover activities.

On Monday when Grant Tracker is back up and running, you will notice the following changes:

1) The IDC Rate will be added to the Financial Information section for parent-sub budgets.

2) All Grant Tracker search result links will open in a new tab/window.

3) The Department View will show as Org Code Reports (Department View).

The TRANSPASU feature in Grant Tracker has also had some updates:

Please be aware that payroll cut-off deadlines for new budgets have changed with the implementation of Workday. New budgets need to be set up in the University’s financial system at least one business day prior to the posted Final Cutoff date. Requests to establish new budget numbers, including Funding Actions received in GCA by COB June 30th, that are needed for this payroll cycle will take priority over new budgets with later start dates.

In preparation for the UW’s switch to Workday on June 27, SAGE salary and payroll data was “frozen” on June 19th. New eGC1s created between June 19 and July 6 will display the “frozen” or “stale” data.

Once the SAGE release is complete on the evening of July 6, it will reflect the new Workday salary and payroll data.

Timeline Overview

• June 19 - Salary and payroll data “frozen”
• July 5 - NIH deadline
• July 6 - Evening SAGE Release with updated Workday data

What’s Affected in SAGE

This message is intended to specifically address sponsored programs funded under state contracts.

The WA state legislature has not yet passed an operating budget for the next fiscal biennium. State agencies are prohibited from expending or committing funds in the absence of appropriations of such funds.

Several sponsored programs and projects are funded by state agencies, such as DOH, DHHS, and others. As required per the terms of these contracts, the sponsoring state agency must notify the contractor (UW) of suspension or early termination.

Many of you have been paying close attention to NIH efforts to increase funding for Early Stage and Mid-Career Investigators.

Their initial plan, the Grant Support Index (GSI) met with overwhelming concerns on the methodology for research impact assessment as well as the potential to discourage research networks, team science, complex trials, and the support of infrastructure and training that could result from a GSI-based cap on total support.

As a result, NIH is proposing a new plan, the Next Generation Researchers Initiative. This new approach plans to:

Grant and Contract Accounting will be contacting departments with Washington State awards that require invoicing information for the June billing.