TUITION COSTS ON NIH NRSA TRAINING GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS -- NEWPOLICY NIH GUIDE, Volume 25, Number 2, February 2, 1996 P.T. 22, 44 Keywords: Grants Administration/Policy+ National Institutes of Health As a follow-up to the Public Forum on the National Research Service Award Tuition Policy held on June 5, 1995 (NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, Vol. 24, No 13, April 7, 1995 and Vol. 24, No. 15, April 28, 1995), the NIH will implement a new policy for the support of tuition costs, beginning with competing National Research Service Act (NRSA) research training grants made in fiscal year 1996. Implementation for NRSA fellowships will begin with competing awards made in fiscal year 1997. The tuition policy is based on recommendations from the NIH Task Force on NIH Tuition Policy, which officiated at the Public Forum. The complete text of these recommendations is available under the NIH Home Page on the World Wide Web (http://www.nih.gov). o Tuition, for the purpose of this policy, means the combined cost of tuition, fees and self-only health insurance. o The new tuition policy will be phased in with competing (Type 1, Type 2) awards. o Support for tuition costs of training grants and fellowships for which the new (Type 1) or competing renewal (Type 2) award was made prior to the implementation dates will remain consistent with policies in effect at the time of the competitive award. o For competing training grant awards made in fiscal year 1996 and henceforth, the NIH will reimburse 100 percent of the cost of tuition up to $2,000 and 60 percent of tuition costs above $2,000 for each predoctoral trainee and each undergraduate trainee supported by the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and Career Opportunities in Research (COR) training grants. This policy will also apply to individual predoctoral fellowships awarded in fiscal year 1997 and henceforth. This policy does not however apply to the Minority Fellowship Program of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). o As in the past, support for the tuition costs of postdoctoral trainees are limited to the cost of self-only health insurance and the costs of specific courses in support of the approved research training program. Postdoctoral tuition costs for a trainee will continue to require prior approval on a case-by-case basis by the NIH awarding component and will be paid according to the policy described above for predoctoral trainees and fellows. This policy also will apply to postdoctoral fellowship awards beginning in fiscal year 1997. o Non-competing (Type 5) of awards of Type 1 and Type 2 awards made under this policy will reimburse tuition costs in the amount paid in the previous award year, unless there is a change in scope of the award. o Carry over of unobligated training grant funds will continue to be permissible only with the prior written approval of the NIH awarding component. o The awardee institution retains full authority to rebudget funds into or within the stipend and tuition cost categories of an institutional training grant. Rebudgeting funds into the trainee travel and the institutional cost categories will continue to require the prior written approval of the NIH awarding component. .
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