Responsibilities

CSU's office of Grants and Sponsored Projects of Academic Affairs is responsible for:

• Processing in a timely manner all grant-related requests for payment.
• Generating any required fiscal reports.
• Monitoring and approving expenditures.
• Ensuring compliance with any applicable federal, state, local or private agency regulations and guidelines. (Therefore, submit all grant-related requests and expenditures to the designated grants administrator before processing.)
• Producing monthly, quarterly or semi-annual invoices of expenditures as required by contract.
• Maintaining a file for auditing purposes as required by funding agency regulations. (This does not relieve the dean or principal investigator of the responsibility to operate within prescribed administrative or fiscal constraints.)

The grants director is responsible for reviewing all grant contracts and obtaining the signatures of either CSU's president or vice president for business and finance or one of their delegates. These are the only officials authorized to sign grants and contracts. The grants manager will then assign the approved grant or contract to a grants administrator and be available to assist and answer questions as the need arises.