EAGER Germination: Aligning Stakeholders and Structures to Enable Risk Taking (ASSERT)

该奖项将在博伊西州立大学创建一个社区，通过调整利益相关者和结构以实现风险承担（ASSERT），萌发变革性的研究思想和问题，以解决关键的社会需求。这个社区将在所有学术队伍中发芽，培养和庆祝变革性的研究思想和问题。这将通过改善学术结构，解决大学中抑制学术冒险的文化问题，并支持个别教师的个人发展，以促进他们准备好构思变革性的研究想法来实现。ASSERT将鼓励和指导教师承担风险，以便在他们的研究中解决重大社会问题。该计划包括三个组成部分，旨在创建一个自信的社区：(a)为一群处于职业生涯不同阶段的教师创建一个学习框架，这些教师由于各种原因有在研究策略上不冒险的危险；(b)解决大学的结构和文化问题，以创造一个更有利的环境，鼓励教师在研究中承担策略性的智力风险；(c)在博伊西州立大学内制定可持续发展计划，将该计划扩展到其他研究团队，同时为其他大学创建指南。该项目将使博伊西州立大学关于大学政策（如任期和晋升，学生研究资金，奖励团队科学和智力冒险）的必要对话走在前列。它将对各个层面的研究环境和校园基础设施产生直接影响。学生将有机会参与跨学科的项目，并由智力活跃的导师领导。这将为未来的研究人员创造一条道路，他们对科学研究感到兴奋和鼓舞。通过解决学术部门内部的文化和参与者的个人发展，通过静修，研讨会和一对一的指导，该项目将创建一个愿意在其研究组合中解决重大社会问题的教师社区。

This award will create a community at Boise State University to germinate transformative research ideas and questions to address critical societal needs by Aligning Stakeholders and Structures to Enable Risk Taking (ASSERT). This community will germinate, cultivate, and celebrate transformative research ideas and questions among all academic ranks. This will be achieved by improving the academic structures, addressing the cultural issues at the university that inhibit academic risk taking, and supporting the personal development of individual faculty to facilitate their readiness to conceive transformative research ideas. ASSERT will encourage and coach faculty to take risks in order to tackle large societal issues in their research. The plan includes three components aimed at creating an ASSERTive community: (a) create a learning framework for a cohort of faculty who are at various stages of their careers and who are in danger of not taking risks in their research strategies for a spectrum of reasons; (b) address the structural and cultural issues at the university in order to create a more nurturing environment that encourages faculty to take strategic intellectual risks in their research; and (c) work on a sustainability plan within Boise State that expands the program to other research teams while also creating guides for other universities. This project will enable necessary conversations about university policies (such as tenure and promotion, funding of student research, and rewarding team science and intellectual risk taking) to the forefront at Boise State. It will have an immediate impact on the research environment and infrastructure on campus, at all levels. Students will have access to projects that cross disciplines and will be led by intellectually vibrant mentors. This will create a pathway to a future of researchers who are excited and inspired about doing science. By addressing the culture within the academic departments and the personal development of the participants through retreats, workshops, and one-on-one coaching, this project will be creating a community of faculty who are willing to tackle large societal questions in their research portfolios.