• Principal Investigators
• Research staff
• Accounting staff
• Certified approvers

Required:

To be eligible to be a PI, individuals must complete the core Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) curriculum, part 1 and part 2. Faculty members wrote the core curriculum and facilitate the workshops. It is currently organized into two workshops:

Part 1 addresses these ethical topics: social responsibility and reporting misconduct, and authorship, plagiarism and peer review (available in-person only)
Part 2 covers these ethical topics: conflict of interest, fiscal responsibilities, intellectual property, and research data management online workshops)

If PIs will use human subjects, animal subjects, or hazardous materials, or work with protected health information, they must also complete instruction on those specific topics.

There is also a continuing education requirement. PIs who start a sponsored project more than a year after they completed the core curriculum must review an information update (see http://www.research.umn.edu/first/contedu). In addition, once every three years, PIs must participate in an activity that involves discussion of responsible research, scholarship and professional ethics.

To learn more about the courses and see the schedules and register, go to the faculty education website: http://www.research.umn.edu/first/.

Optional:

Effort Certification for PI/Faculty

see (http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/trainingservices/spa/courses/index.html#effortpi)

EGMS Proposal Preparation

see (http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/trainingservices/spa/courses/index.html)

Research staff, including PIs

Required:

If using animal subjects:

see: http://www.research.umn.edu/iacuc/training/

If using human subjects:
see: http://www.research.umn.edu/irb/training/

If using hazardous materials:

see: http://www.research.umn.edu/ibc/training/index.cfm

If using protected health information:

see: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/privacy/training/privtraining/home.html

Financial system training for clustered and distributed users will include the following classes:

PREPARERS (DISTRIBUTED AND CLUSTERED)

* Asset Management
* Bank Card Reconciliation
* Basic Accounting
* Basic Accounting II
* Chart of Accounts
* Create Requisitions
* Departmental Deposits
* Endowments
* Procurement Card Reconciliation
* Receiving Purchases
* Travel Authorizations and Expense Reimbursement
* Vendor Inquiry

PREPARERS (CLUSTER ONLY)

* Create Bills
* Journal Voucher Entry and Processing
* Payment Voucher Entry and Maintenance
* Procurement Specialist

APPROVERS

* Journal Voucher Approvals
* Payment Voucher Approvals
* Procurement Card (P-Card) Approvals
* Requisition Approvals
* Travel and Expense Approvals

FISCAL MONITORS

* Accounts Receivable (AR) Monitoring
* Asset Accounting

MISCELLANEOUS

* HRMS Impacts
* Introduction to Financial Reports
* Introduction to Navigation
* Sponsored Projects Administration Overview

This list of classes is available online at http://www.finsys.umn.edu/ClassList.html. The online list includes a brief description of each class and any required prerequisites.