Strengthening Sponsored Research Infrastructure and Faculty Development at Swarthmore College

加强斯沃斯莫尔学院资助的研究基础设施和师资发展

• 批准号: 8710934
• 负责人: Joel Cooper
• 金额: $ 9.11万
• 依托单位: SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8710934
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Swarthmore has a sponsored research program that can be considered robust for a small liberal arts college. This project is designed to bring the College's practices up to the level of our R1 partners. This will enable Swarthmore to collaborate more effectively with R1-level institutions, either as a subcontractor or prime grantee. This capacity-building will, in turn, expand our nation's pool of undergraduate researchers - an important pipeline, as Swarthmore is fourth in the country in per capita production of students who go on to achieve a PhD in the natural sciences, engineering, or the social sciences. Furthermore, the sponsored research enhancement proposed here is designed to be replicable at peer institutions; Swarthmore will share information about best practices for (and pitfalls to avoid) in growing from a small- to medium-sized sponsored research program. The project is timely: In December 2011, Swarthmore completed its latest strategic plan, which foregrounds faculty and student research, high-impact learning experiences, community-based learning and research, and creating a more diverse, inclusive campus culture. In the coming years, we expect to hire approximately 25-30 new faculty, as we move from a 5- to 4-course load, with the concurrent expectation that faculty spend increased time on involving students in their own research and mentorship of students' research. Also, over the past decade Swarthmore has pioneered some programs to promote underrepresented minority (URM) participation in STEM research; now, with student enrollment increases planned for the coming decade, the College seeks to redouble those efforts. We also see additional as-yet-untapped potential for sponsored research growth in certain fields (e.g., our emerging neuroscience curriculum; behavioral health research led by faculty in the Economics Department) and will develop explicit sponsored research connections in those areas. Qualified student demand for research opportunities is outstripping the College's ability to provide them: not only laboratory research, but social science research that includes international and local community projects, and Swarthmore faculty (and students) are engaging in increasingly complex and challenging behavioral and social science research. This project seeks to ensure Swarthmore's growth in all these areas is supported by a proactive Sponsored Research Office strengthened by efficient pre-/post-award administration and compliance strategies and tools and backed by clear institutional policies in a campus culture that recognizes the infrastructural needs that make research excellence possible.

描述（由申请人提供）：斯沃斯莫尔学院有一个赞助研究项目，对于小型文理学院来说可以认为是稳健的。该项目旨在使学院的实践达到我们 R1 合作伙伴的水平。这将使斯沃斯莫尔能够作为分包商或主要受资助者与 R1 级机构更有效地合作。反过来，这种能力建设将扩大我们国家的本科研究人员库——这是一条重要的管道，因为斯沃斯莫尔学院在自然科学、工程或科学研究领域获得博士学位的学生人均产量在全国排名第四。社会科学。此外，这里提出的赞助研究增强旨在可在同行机构复制；斯沃斯莫尔将分享有关从中小型赞助研究项目发展的最佳实践（以及要避免的陷阱）的信息。 该项目非常及时：2011 年 12 月，斯沃斯莫尔学院完成了最新的战略计划，该计划强调教师和学生研究、高影响力的学习体验、基于社区的学习和研究，以及创建更加多元化、包容性的校园文化。未来几年，随着我们从 5 门课程转向 4 门课程，我们预计将聘用大约 25-30 名新教师，同时期望教师花更多的时间让学生参与自己的研究和指导学生的研究。研究。此外，在过去十年中，斯沃斯莫尔开创了一些项目，以促进代表性不足的少数群体 (URM) 参与 STEM 研究；现在，随着计划在未来十年增加学生入学率，学院寻求加倍努力。我们还看到某些领域的赞助研究增长尚未开发的潜力（例如，我们新兴的神经科学课程；由经济系教师领导的行为健康研究），并将在这些领域建立明确的赞助研究联系。 合格的学生对研究机会的需求超出了学院提供这些机会的能力：不仅是实验室研究，还有包括国际和当地社区项目的社会科学研究，斯沃斯莫尔学院的教职员工（和学生）正在从事日益复杂和具有挑战性的行为和社会科学研究。 该项目旨在确保斯沃斯莫尔在所有这些领域的发展得到积极主动的赞助研究办公室的支持，该办公室通过高效的获奖前/后管理和合规策略和工具得到加强，并得到校园文化中明确的制度政策的支持，该政策认识到基础设施需求使卓越的研究成为可能。