Planning: Strategic Planning Workshop for the CSU Desert Studies Center

规划：科罗拉多州立大学沙漠研究中心战略规划研讨会

• 批准号: 2326991
• 负责人: Terrence McGlynn
• 金额: $ 2.59万
• 依托单位: CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Strategic; Workshop; CSU; Desert

The Desert Studies Center (DSC) is a residential field station located in the Mojave Desert operated by the California State University system. This facility supports research and education activities in a location that offers a unique wealth of living organisms geological features that are valuable for scientific field research. Over the past 48 years under the support of the California State University system, the DSC has ably served university and extension courses, workshops, and conferences. Currently the DSC supports several thousand overnight visits per year, though most users are visiting for educational purposes. The DSC has tremendous untapped potential for supporting research. This project supports the development of a five-year strategic plan for the Desert Studies Center to foster the development of research infrastructure and promote institutional sustainability.The development of the strategic plan for the DSC will be informed by a 1.5-day workshop to be convened early in 2024 at the Desert Studies Center. The workshop will be independently developed and implemented by an external evaluator who is experienced with institutional planning. Participants in this workshop will include DSC staff, regional stakeholders from partner agencies and organizations, current and potential users, and experts in field station research and operations. Several weeks before the workshop, all invitees will receive a detailed survey that will guide the development of the workshop and the planning effort, and after the workshop finishes, participants will be asked to provide feedback on the process and additional information to support the development of the strategic plan. After the workshop, with support of the evaluator, the steering committee of the planning effort will develop the formal strategic plan.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

沙漠研究中心（DSC）是位于加利福尼亚州立大学系统运营的莫哈韦沙漠中的住宅野外站。该设施在一个为科学现场研究具有价值的独特生物地质特征提供独特的生物地质特征的地点提供了研究和教育活动。在过去的48年中，在加利福尼亚州立大学系统的支持下，DSC在大学和扩展课程，讲习班和会议上都提供了非常好的服务。目前，DSC每年支持数千次过夜访问，尽管大多数用户都出于教育目的而访问。 DSC具有支持研究的巨大潜力。该项目支持制定沙漠研究中心的五年战略计划，以促进研究基础设施的发展并促进机构的可持续性。DSC的战略计划的制定将由2024年初的1.5天的研讨会告知沙漠研究中心。研讨会将由经验丰富的机构计划的外部评估者独立开发和实施。该研讨会的参与者将包括DSC员工，合作伙伴机构和组织的区域利益相关者，现有和潜在用户以及现场站研究和运营专家。在研讨会发生前几周，所有邀请人都将收到一项详细的调查，将指导研讨会和计划工作的开发，在研讨会完成后，将要求参与者提供有关该过程的反馈和其他信息，以支持战略计划的制定。在研讨会之后，在评估人员的支持下，计划工作的指导委员会将制定正式的战略计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估的评估来支持的。