Strengthening Research and Sponsored Projects at Webster University (SRSP)

加强韦伯斯特大学的研究和赞助项目（SRSP）

• 批准号: 9270043
• 负责人: Victoria Brown-Kennerly
• 金额: $ 8.98万
• 依托单位: WEBSTER UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-10 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9270043
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Administrator; Advisory Committees; Area; Arts; Award; Behavioral Research; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Communities; Development; Education; Educational process of instructing; Equilibrium; Ethics; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Faculty Recruitment; Female; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Government; Grant; Incentives; Institution; Institutional Policy; Institutional Review Boards; Learning; Movement; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Productivity; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Role; STEM career; STEM research; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Services; Strategic Planning; Structure; Students; System; Time; Training; Training Activity; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; career; college; expectation; experience; faculty community; faculty mentor; faculty research; faculty support; improved; member; programs; public health relevance; student participation; success; symposium; training opportunity; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Webster University is a student-focused, tuition-driven institution that values teaching and academic excellence. The transformation from a traditionally teaching-heavy culture to a balanced teaching and research culture requires institutional level changes. Historically, Webster has emphasized teaching excellence but not research productivity, though that is changing with a new administration. The growing emphasis on faculty research, a new endowed professorship in biological sciences, and the imminent construction of an interdisciplinary science building make this an ideal time to formalize research administration and expand research productivity at Webster. Our objective is to build a sustained Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) that serves and supports the faculty in competing for external funding. This will require development of an ORSP and faculty initiatives to meet these goals, with the following Aims. Aim 1: Develop the new Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP), currently the Corporate Foundation and Government Relations (CFGR), to encourage and support externally funded research. This includes enhancing administration through ongoing training in research administration for grants officers and in accounting from NIH and NCURA. Aim 2: Review and reorganize institutional policies to remove barriers and incentivize the pursuit of external research funding by faculty. This will include setting research as a new priority and reviewing hiring, tenure, and promotion policies to encourage and give credit for a balance of teaching and research. We will explore new incentive structures and review and clarify policies for support of faculty time devoted to developing and managing research grants. Aim 3: Develop faculty research productivity for successful pursuit of external research funding and increase research grant activity. We will promote and provide increased training in grant writing and research methodology. We will designate a Faculty Research Director who will be Faculty Advisor to the new ORSP with responsibilities to provide faculty mentoring around research, publishing, and grant writing. The student body has 38% under-represented minorities and 55% females in STEM and biomedical areas, demonstrating that Webster University has also been successful in recruiting and retaining underrepresented students. Increasing the research productivity of Webster faculty will provide increased opportunities for underrepresented students to participate in behavioral and biomedical research with a greater likelihood that they choose careers in those areas. We propose to provide training to faculty in grant writing, cultivate undergraduate researchers, and balance expectations for teaching, research, and service that will support incentives for promoting and attaining external grant funding. With this BRAD application, we strongly believe that Webster University is ideally positioned to make the transition to increased research and external funding, while promoting opportunities for under-represented minority students to be a critical part of STEM, biomedical, and behavioral research.

 描述（由适用提供）：韦伯斯特大学是一个以学生为中心的，以学费为中心的机构，重视教学和学术卓越。从传统的教学文化转变为平衡的教学和研究文化需要制度水平的变化。从历史上看，韦伯斯特具有卓越的紧急教学，但没有研究生产力，尽管新政府正在改变。越来越重视教师研究，生物科学领域的新教授职位以及跨学科科学建设的迫在眉睫的建设使得这是正式研究管理和扩大韦伯斯特研究生产力的理想时机。我们的目标是建立一个持续的研究和赞助计划（ORSP）的办公室，该办公室为教师提供竞争外部资金的服务和支持。这将需要制定ORSP和教师倡议，以实现以下目标。目标1：开发新的研究和赞助计划办公室（ORSP），目前是公司基金会和政府关系（CFGR），以鼓励和支持外部资助的研究。这包括通过正在进行的赠款官员和NIH和NCURA会计的研究管理培训来加强行政管理。目标2：审查和重组机构政策，以消除障碍并激励教师追求外部研究资金。这将包括将研究设定为新的优先级，并审查招聘，任期和晋升政策，以鼓励和荣誉教学和研究平衡。我们将探索新的激励结构，并审查并澄清政策，以支持专门用于开发和管理研究赠款的教师时间。目标3：发展教师研究生产力，以成功追求外部研究资金并增加研究赠款活动。我们将在赠款写作和研究方法方面促进并提供更多的培训。我们将指定一位教师研究主任，他将担任新ORSP的教职顾问，负责在研究，出版和赠款写作方面为教师提供心理。该学生团体在STEM和生物医学领域中拥有38％的人为少数族裔和55％的女性，这表明韦伯斯特大学也成功地招募和保留了代表性不足的学生。提高韦伯斯特教师的研究生产力将为代表性不足的学生提供更多机会参加行为和生物医学研究的机会，他们很有可能在这些领域选择职业。我们建议为教师提供赠款写作，培养本科研究人员的培训，并平衡教学，研究和服务的期望，这将支持促进和参加外部赠款资金的激励措施。有了这一BRAD应用程序，我们坚信韦伯斯特大学是理想的有位置，可以过渡到增加的研究和外部资金，同时为代表性不足的少数族裔学生促进机会成为STEM，生物医学和行为研究的关键部分。