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

由阿拉巴马州农工大学公立和赠地大学协会主办的“绘制和扩展研究管理和领导所需路径”（CENTRAL）会议，将开发一份培养国家高级研究官员（sro）的职业道路的综合地图。由于国家需要将研究领导的好处带给全国范围内不断扩大的机构，因此需要更多的大学研究领导来反映他们的机构和他们所接触的公民群体的多样性。绘制出培养高级领导者的路径，并确定机构和协会可能消除障碍的方法，将使今天形形色色的有抱负的领导者能够承担起未来领导力需求的重任。为了实现这一目标，中央会议将在阿拉巴马a&m大学召集75名研究领导、培训和管理领域的专家。将从公立和赠地大学协会（APLU）、国家研究发展专业人员组织（NORDP）和促进研究对社会的影响中心（ARIS）中挑选专家和演讲者，以确定高级研究官员的职业道路。CENTRAL将举办互动讨论：1)确定个人达到高级研究领导角色的关键路径，认识到不同候选人的路径有额外的属性和限制；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，并招募他们从事高级研究领导和管理工作方面所起的作用。该项目旨在为未来的研究领导力发展项目奠定基础，解决培养未来研究领导者的障碍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.