Kuali Implementation at UMBC

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:42:31 -0500

Kuali Live in 2018!

UMBC is now live with Kuali! Kuali is a new software system aiming to significantly improve the process of proposal submission and several other critical extramural related activities for our faculty and department administrators.

Kuali is partnership between the Kuali Foundation and a community of R1 institutions, including the University of Maryland Baltimore and College Park. The system was designed by university research administration subject matter experts specially for universities.

It provides a web-based, single resource for proposals, all extramural award types, compliance, and unfunded agreement information while providing a solution for many complex workflows as part of the review and approval process. Kuali allows for Administrators, Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, Chairs and Dean's one cloud-based portal to their individual, unit, college or center information.

Easing the burden of extramural funding submissions, Kuali provides tools to assist in collaboration, budget and compliance approvals. The system provides the UMBC community an electronic approval and submission process, and eliminates the requirement to create Federal Agency form packages. Kuali submits automatically to System-to-System Grants.Gov. The system also has compliance tracking, for example, COI financial disclosures tied directly to proposals, awards and IRB.

UMBC is joining sister system campuses who are committed to the transition of the research management format from PeopleSoft to the cloud-based Kuali system. The alignment presents a unique opportunity for UMBC to benefit from a system-wide initiative sharing of resources.

UMBC funded proposals and awards will be managed in Kuali. Future functionality will include tracking negotiations, reporting, compliance and finally the close-out process.

For questions, just email us at OSP Team at the following: http://OSPA@UMBC.edu.

For further information and to sign-up for Kuali training, go to UMBC Kuali Website at: