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: 9129888
• 负责人: Carolyn Kelleher Corley
• 金额: $ 9.77万
• 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/9129888
• 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; Health; Housing; 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; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; base; career; college; expectation; experience; faculty community; faculty mentor; faculty research; faculty support; improved; meetings; member; programs; student participation; success; symposium; training opportunity; undergraduate research; 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（由申请人提供）：韦伯斯特大学是一所以学生为中心、以学费为导向的机构，重视教学和学术卓越，从传统的教学文化到平衡的教学和研究文化的转变需要制度层面的变革。韦伯斯特强调教学卓越，而不是研究生产力，尽管随着新政府对教师研究的日益重视、新的生物科学教授职位以及即将建设的跨学科科学大楼，这种情况正在发生变化。正规化研究管理和我们的目标是建立一个持续的研究和赞助项目办公室 (ORSP)，为教师竞争外部资金提供服务和支持，这将需要制定 ORSP 和教师举措来实现这些目标。目标 1：建立新的研究和资助项目办公室 (ORSP)，目前为企业基金会和政府关系办公室 (CFGR)，以鼓励和支持外部资助的研究，其中包括通过持续的研究管理培训来加强管理。对于 NIH 和 NCURA 的资助官员和会计人员而言，目标 2：审查和重组机构政策，以消除障碍并激励教师寻求外部研究资助，这将包括将研究作为新的优先事项并审查招聘、终身教职和晋升。我们将探索新的激励结构，并审查和明确支持教师投入开发和管理研究经费的政策。 目标 3：提高教师的研究生产力，以成功追求外部机会。研究经费并增加研究我们将促进并提供更多的资助写作和研究方法方面的培训。我们将指定一名教职研究主任，担任新 ORSP 的教职顾问，负责为学生提供有关研究、出版和资助写作的指导。在 STEM 和生物医学领域，该机构有 38% 的少数族裔和 55% 的女性，这表明韦伯斯特大学在招募和留住代表性不足的学生方面也取得了成功，提高韦伯斯特教师的研究生产力将为他们提供更多的机会。我们建议为教师提供资助写作培训，培养本科生研究人员，并平衡对教学、研究和服务的期望，以支持激励措施。通过此 BRAD 申请，我们坚信韦伯斯特大学处于向增加研究和外部资助过渡的理想位置，同时为代表性不足的少数族裔学生提供成为 STEM 重要组成部分的机会，生物医学和行为学研究。