Assurance

[Jack Suess <>]

UMBC will be submitting in the first half of the year, we might be among the first.

As a question for the group, we are hoping to go through the audit in late march or april. My challenge is getting an auditor to review us. I have two questions.

1. Do you know if any of your auditors might be interested in doing an audit of a school like UMBC (we'll be easy :-)

2. If not an official auditor, would schools like to send their auditor to participate as a viewer when we are audited?  If so, let me know.

I think having auditors that will go through this talk to one another will be good in giving them the ability to define normative practice.

jack

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Ann West <> wrote:

Hello,

Debbie Bucci (NIH) sent a note today asking about HE uptake for Silver. It seems that NASA and NIH ERA have expressed interest in offering Silver-requesting services in the Spring and would like to see a list of campuses that are working towards certification by the end of 2012.

If you plan to apply for certification this year, please let me know by COB Thursday and I'll add your institution to the list. This isn't a hard commitment---only a show of intent.

Renee Shuey will also be sending a similar note to the CIC Silver group. If you're on that list and would rather send your thoughts to her, that's fine. We'll coordinate before we send the list to the Feds.

Thanks,
Ann

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