Current Initiatives

Facilities & Administration (F&A) costs are often recovered from funding agencies to help offset the University’s real costs of conducting research or doing the contracted work. Although the F&A recovery does not fully cover the University’s investment in research infrastructure, we recognized the value of returning some F&A collected back to the Units/PIs that generated such revenue. The Provost’s Office and a subgroup of the Council of Deans worked together to develop this F&A distribution plan, to allow us to reinvest in success and reward those individuals who contributed to the sum-total of F&A dollars recovered by Loyola University Chicago.  

See more information here.  

The implementation of Cayuse, an Electronic Research Administration (eRA),  is underway and full roll out is anticipated in 2026, however some modules will go live as soon as Spring 2025.  The overall objective of an eRA is to provide a single electronic solution for managing the research administration from creating and submitting grant proposals,  establishing and managing grant awards, sub-awards, and a variety of contracts to receipt/set-up through project close out.  Regulatory “add-ons” such as IACUC, IRB, IBC, Conflict of Interest, Animal census monitoring, Tech Transfer will also be implemented.   

Training opportunities will be made available ITS and ORS. More information will be shared as it becomes available.