Conference: Charting & Expanding Needed Trails to Research Administration & Leadership (CENTRAL)

由阿拉巴马州农工大学公共和土地赠与大学协会主办的将所需路径扩展到研究管理和领导力(中心)的会议将制定一份全面的职业道路地图，以培养美国的高级研究官员(SRO)。由于将研究领导力的好处带给全国范围内不断扩大的机构是一种全国性的需要，因此需要更多的大学研究领导者来反映其机构和与之接触的公民人口的多样性。绘制出产生高级领导人的道路，并找出机构和协会可能消除障碍的方法，将使今天各种有抱负的领导人能够承担未来领导需求的重任。为了实现这一目标，中央会议将在阿拉巴马农工大学召集多达75名研究领导、培训和管理领域的专家。专家和演讲者将从公共和赠与土地大学协会(APLU)、国家研究发展专业人员组织(NORDP)和促进社会研究影响中心(ARIS)中挑选出来，以确定高级研究官员的职业道路。中心将主持互动讨论，以1)确定个人获得高级研究领导角色的关键途径，认识到不同候选人的途径具有额外的属性和限制，以及2)确定机构和协会在向个人介绍追求研究领导的机会和障碍并招募他们进入高级研究领导和管理职业方面所发挥的作用。该项目旨在为未来的研究领导力发展项目奠定所需的知识基础，这些项目解决了培养未来研究领导者的障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Charting & Expanding Needed Trails to Research Administration & Leadership (CENTRAL) conference, hosted by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities at Alabama A&M University, will develop a comprehensive map of career pathways which produce the nation’s senior research officers (SROs). As it is a national need to bring the benefit of research leadership to an expanding breadth of institutions across the nation, more university research leaders are needed to reflect the diversity of both their institutions and the citizen populations with which they engage. Charting the pathways that produce senior leaders, and identifying ways institutions and associations might remove roadblocks from them, will enable the diverse aspiring leaders of today to assume the mantle of tomorrow’s leadership needs. To accomplish this goal, the CENTRAL Conference will convene up to 75 experts in the research leadership, training, and administration fields at the Alabama A&M University. Experts and speakers will be selected from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP), and Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) to identify the career pathways of senior research officers. CENTRAL will host interactive discussions to 1) Identify key paths that individuals take to arrive at senior research leadership roles, recognizing that the paths for diverse candidates have additional attributes and constraints, and 2) identify the roles that institutions and associations play in introducing individuals to the opportunities and barriers of pursuing research leadership and recruiting them to a career in senior research leadership and administration. This project serves to build the foundation of knowledge required for future research leadership development programs which address roadblocks to producing future research leaders.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.