Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 1071]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1068

BOARD O F TRUSTEES

[December

17

RESEARCH GIFTS, GRANTS, AND CONTRACTS

Sec. 14. ( a ) Research conducted under the auspices of the University may be supported in whole or in part through funds provided by outside donors in the form of research gifts, grants, or contracts. Such arrangements must be approved, before acceptance, by the President or his delegate. Staff members may conduct preliminary negotiations with prospective grantors or contractors with the prior knowledge and approval of the department head or other appropriate administrative officer and the dean or director, if required by college policy, but have no authority to bind the University to enter into a contract. Such research programs shall be controlled and directed by the University and shall be conducted within the appropriate department by members of the University staff. The administrative coordination of such programs shall be under the Agricultural Experiment Station for departments in the College of Agriculture, the Engineering Experiment Station for departments in the College of Engineering, and the University Research Board for all other departments. (b) Contracts for research shall specify that the results of scientific research conducted by the University, including patentable discoveries, are the property of the University, to be used for the benefit of the University and the public, but if such patentable discoveries have commercial value, the sponsoring agency may receive preferential consideration in the administration of the patent. (c) The University shall not enter into an agreement with a sponsoring agency which will give it permanently the exclusive benefits of the results of such investigation or research, except under certain contracts with agencies of the United States Government, when such exceptions are in the national interest. The original records of any investigation shall be held by the University, but reports or copies of such records may be furnished to the sponsoring agency. The University shall have the exclusive right to publish, at its discretion, the results of scientific investigation and research, unless provided otherwise in contracts with agencies of the United States Government or state of Illinois. No account of a cooperative research project or reprints of scientific articles resulting from the investigation shall be published by the sponsor or by any other agency, except with the consent of the University. The sponsoring agency shall not use the name of the University in any advertisement, whether with reference to a cooperative investigation or otherwise, without the prior approval of the President of the University. (d) If conditions imposed by the sponsoring agency require the waiver of established University policies, such as those concerned with full reimbursement for indirect costs, rights of publication, or ownership of potentially patentable inventions or developments, such conditions may be accepted by the University, if required by federal law or the established policies of the sponsor, when the sponsoring agency is governmental or non-profit in character ; and if the action of the University in waiving such policies is determined to be clearly in the public interest by the committee specified in paragraph (f) following. Other than the exceptions indicated above, all gifts, grants, and contracts shall be accepted under conditions imposed by relevant University statutes and rules. (e) The University shall generally accept funds for research from spon-