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

EAGER Germination：协调利益相关者和结构以实现风险承担 (ASSERT)

• 批准号: 1629659
• 负责人: William Hughes
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-15 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Germination; Aligning; Stakeholders; Structures

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.

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）来萌发变革性的研究想法和问题，以解决关键的社会需求。这个社区将发芽，培养和庆祝变革性的研究思想和所有学术队伍之间的问题。 这将通过改善学术结构，解决大学中抑制学术风险的文化问题，以及支持个别教师的个人发展来实现，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，以解决他们的研究中的重大社会问题。该计划包括三个组成部分，旨在建立一个ASSERTive社区：（a）为处于职业生涯不同阶段、由于各种原因而有可能在其研究战略中不承担风险的一批教员建立一个学习框架;（B）解决大学的结构和文化问题，以创造一个更有利的环境，鼓励教师采取战略知识研究中的风险;以及（c）在博伊西州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，同时为其他大学制定指南。该项目将使有关大学政策（如任期和晋升，学生研究的资金，并奖励团队科学和智力风险承担）的必要对话在博伊西州的最前沿。它将对校园各级的研究环境和基础设施产生直接影响。 学生将有机会获得跨学科的项目，并将由智力活跃的导师领导。这将为那些对从事科学工作感到兴奋和鼓舞的研究人员的未来开辟一条道路。通过解决学术部门内的文化和参与者的个人发展，通过务虚会，研讨会和一对一的辅导，该项目将创建一个教师谁愿意解决他们的研究组合中的大型社会问题的社区。

项目成果

De-risking Transdisciplinary Research by Creating Shared Values

通过创造共同价值观来降低跨学科研究的风险

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference & exposition proceedings
• 作者: Llewellyn, Donna C;Hughes, William L
• 通讯作者: Hughes, William L