Are there fees attached to the services?
CSCU is a fee-for-service unit available to the entire Cornell community. The initial consulting meeting with a client is provided at no cost. All subsequent and follow-up visits will require financial support. This financial support can be provided either through a unit base funding model or through a user fee model.
Under the unit base funding model, a college, department, center or unit contributes to the base funding to support the operations of CSCU. The funding provided by the unit can cover some or all the cost of consulting services provided to faculty, student researchers and staff in that unit, depending on the amount of funding the unit provides.
Under the user fee model clients will be assessed a fee for the consulting services they receive according to the rates below.
Currently, under the unit base funding model, free consulting is offered to faculty, student researchers and staff in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, the Colleges of Human Ecology and Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the Departments of Statistical Sciences, City and Regional Planning, Anthropology, Economics, Government, Linguistics, Psychology and Sociology.
Faculty, student researchers and staff from non-participating colleges or units across Cornell University can receive one half hour free consultation per year. Researchers from these units can obtain additional help, in any one of the following ways:
- Referral--the researcher can enter into a collaborative agreement with CSCU (DSS) faculty.
- Purchasing additional hours of consulting from CSCU at the hourly rate listed below.
- By having their unit make further arrangements with CSCU to provide their researchers with extended access to statistical consultants. To make such arrangements please contact Francoise Vermeylen.
People outside of Cornell University can obtain statistical consulting services from CSCU according to the hourly rate listed below.
CSCU Hourly Consulting Rates:
CSCU Hourly Consulting Rates for Cornell University researchers
$50 Staff Statistician
$85 Faculty Statistician
CSCU Hourly Consulting Rates for clients outside of Cornell University
$85 Staff Statistician
$145 Faculty Statistician
The fees for the CSCU services cover, in addition to time spent in actual consulting meetings with the clients, research time done by the consultant, time spent e-mailing or phone consulting with the clients. Cornell University students and staff can purchase additional consulting time only in agreement with faculty advisors.
CSCU Contract Services Rates
More extensive consulting or contract work rates are discussed on individual basis.
How to Pay?
- Pay by the hour: CSCU Consulting fees will be charged to an individual Cornell account or can be paid by check made out to Cornell University.
- Contract work and more extensive consulting will be billed.