The Budget Specialist will offer advice on budget items and provide you with a copy of a spreadsheet containing your full budget, and will forward a copy to the Assistant Director of Research for Sponsored Projects. The budget entered on the front of the Clearance Form will correspond to the budget information in your proposal budget spreadsheet. If there are changes later, then the Assistant Director will assist you. Whether it is done by email or manually, the routing circuit is the same. Normally, this will take place at least one week prior to submission date of your proposal.
Some colleges require earlier routing.
This means that you will be held to the content of all the materials forwarded just as if you had signed them manually. The Department Chair will forward the package to the College Office according to the routing instructions provided by the Office of University Research. Each college has a somewhat different routing sequence, so you and the Department Chair must be careful to observe the proper routing. As the Clearance Form output document and the attachments are forwarded from one official to the next through the email accounts, each forwarding constitutes approval of the proposal. Eventually, the College Dean or designee will forward the materials back to the Office of University Research, which will obtain Foundation sign-off on the proposal.