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Columbia Initiates Grants Management Project with InfoEd
22 Jun 06
A new Grants Management Project was launched in October 2005 by the Office of Research Administration and Office of Projects and Grants in close coordination with CUIT. Columbia University has contracted with InfoEd International, Inc. to implement selected web-based modules over an 18-month period that will support comprehensive business strategies and serve to improve and simplify grants and contracts management at the University.
InfoEd is a leading provider of software solutions for managing sponsored programs. Over six hundred worldwide academic, medical and scientific institutions use InfoEd to support their grant and contract activities.
Specifically, the project will enable us to:
- Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Columbia's grants management operations by redesigning current processes and implementing InfoEd's project development, proposal tracking, project management, and faculty profiles modules.
- Develop an intellectual inventory of the University's faculty to improve collaboration, identify faculty for grant proposals, and target funding opportunities to each investigator's desktop.
- Create a centralized and comprehensive data and document repository that will provide a unified work environment for central administration and the research community.
- Provide data of the highest quality and integrity, covering grant and contract activities for strategic planning, and make this data easy to access and use.
InfoEd’s Proposal Development, Proposal Tracking, and SPIN/GENIUS (funding opportunities) modules will enable research investigators to initiate proposal development and capture critical administrative data (e.g., budgets) and documents within a web-based environment. The current Implementation provides alternative solutions to Rascal’s Proposal Tracking, Finding Funding, and CV Builder. These modules will only continue to be used until the InfoEd implementation goes into production. At the present time, Rascal compliance modules—Animal Care, Human Subjects, Testing Center, Conflict of Interest, Consent Form Builder, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and Environmental Health and Safety—will remain in use.
We will continue to provide information regarding progress on this project. Please direct any questions about the project to the Office of Research Administration, at grants-office@columbia.edu.
Carol Albertus
Associate Vice President, University Systems
ca2221@columbia.edu
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