Optimizing investment in US research

Universities should:

• Conduct a review of institutional policies developed to comply with federal regulations of research to determine whether the institution itself has created excessive or unnecessary self-imposed burden
• Revise self-imposed burdensome institutional policies that go beyond those necessary and sufficient to comply with federal, state, and local requirements.

The release of the report completes the first phase of the committee’s study, which was expedited at the request of Congress.

The committee will now continue its assessment and issue a spring 2016 addendum report addressing issues it has been unable to address in the first phase.