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，通过协调利益相关者和结构以支持冒险(断言)，萌发变革性的研究想法和问题，以解决关键的社会需求。这个社区将在所有学术级别中萌发、培养和庆祝变革性的研究想法和问题。这将通过改善学术结构、解决阻碍学术冒险的大学文化问题以及支持个别教员的个人发展来实现，以促进他们准备好构思变革性的研究想法。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的社会问题。该计划包括三个部分，旨在创建一个自信的社区：(A)为处于职业生涯不同阶段、由于各种原因而面临在研究战略中不承担风险的一群教师创建一个学习框架；(B)解决大学的结构和文化问题，以便创造一个更有利于培养教师在其研究中承担战略性智力风险的环境；以及(C)在博伊西州立大学内制定一项可持续发展计划，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能够就大学政策(如终身教职和晋升、资助学生研究、奖励团队科学和承担智力风险)进行必要的对话。它将对校园的研究环境和基础设施产生立竿见影的影响，无论是在各个层面。学生将有机会参与跨学科的项目，并将由智力活跃的导师领导。这将创造一条通向未来的研究人员的道路，他们对做科学感到兴奋和鼓舞。这个项目通过静修、研讨会和一对一辅导来解决学术部门内部的文化和参与者的个人发展，将创建一个愿意在他们的研究项目中解决重大社会问题的教职员工社区。

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.