Event
Event Details
Where:
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
When:
December 11 - 12, 2025
December 11 - 12, 2025
Attain Partners is speaking during the CNI 2025 Fall Membership Meeting
Hear from Attain Partners during the CNI 2025 Fall Membership Meeting, taking place December 11 – 12 in Washington, DC.
Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research
Recent federal policy changes have created unprecedented challenges for research institutions to identify, account for, and recover library expenses that support sponsored research. This timely briefing will examine federal cost recovery regulations for federally funded research and explore innovative approaches to ensure sustainable support for research-critical library services.
The panel will address three dimensions of this issue: policy context, institutional perspectives, and practical solutions. As research institutions navigate reduced federal grant funding and indirect cost recovery while attempting to maintain essential research infrastructure, libraries are uniquely positioned to demonstrate their direct contributions to sponsored research through new institutional partnership models. The expected outcome of our session will be that the participants will gain an understanding of (1) current federal regulations affecting library cost recovery and anticipated future developments, (2) Real-world approaches from research universities for adapting to reduced indirect cost recovery, while supporting the research enterprise at their institution, and (3)Strategies for libraries to be solution partners with research administration and finance offices.
Speakers
- Gil Tran, CPA, Attain Partners
- Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners
- Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
- Tim McGeary, Duke University
