What does SPA stand for?

Sponsored Programs Administration

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Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In a series of surveys, their studies showed participating institutions how their sponsored programs administration staffing and workload compared with the other institutions.

Voice of Experience

Getting approvals on foot was wasting thousands of faculty and staff hours every year and slowing down the grant submission process, which often have short time-frames," said Thane Peterson, director of the Office of Sponsored Programs Administration at ISU.

Cardiff Solutions Provide Processing Efficiencies to Help Ease ...

Decentralizing responsibility and authority for sponsored programs administration functions.

Practice data from the 2002 SRA-Bearing-Point nationwide benchmarking ...

This program has two purposes: (a) to provide participating institutions tools for quantitative analysis of their activities and comparison data and (b) to provide the sponsored programs administration community with performance and practice benchmarks to aid training and development programs.

Benchmarking in sponsored programs administration: using the web to ...

Focusing largely on pre-award matters, the Office of Sponsored Programs Administration (OSPA) reviews and approves sponsored program proposals, negotiates agreements with sponsors and interprets regulatory and contractual requirements.

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