Conference: Distributed RD--Building A National Network of Enterprise Research Support for Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (BANNERS-PUI)

这个以研讨会为基础的项目旨在制定一套实用的建议，以减轻在全国大约1700所授予4年制或更高学位的主要本科院校（PUIs）提交拨款的挑战。通过深入研究校园管理、专业组织和非正式网络在这一过程中的作用，该项目在识别障碍和解决方案方面具有独特的优势。一项试验性研究表明，在每个获资助的研究机构中，有少数工作人员履行与大型研究型大学中规模更大、更专业的研究开发工作人员相同的核心研究开发职能。然而，由于优先事项相互竞争和资源有限，这些职能受到了广泛的压力。项目小组使用来自小型和大型数据收集的最新数据、早期文献和专家咨询来制定简明的背景材料和议程，以更好地了解pui之间研发的性质和变化。通过召开一系列为期两天的区域讲习班，大约16名参与者（每个讲习班）代表PUI类型和研发人员，将审查材料并制定具体的想法和优先事项。随后的公开网络研讨会和相关渠道为一份报告提供了基础，该报告提出了关于证据开发、示范项目和评估的国家建议，以促进PUI研究企业的系统性长期增强。通过明确PUI研发挑战的独特方面的知识，促进基于优势而不是基于缺陷的PUI需求、能力和增长路径建模，以及扩大目前PUI领域不太活跃的部分的参与，该项目将为如何加强国家通信和服务网络提供具体、独立的专家建议，以更有效地支持PUI研究活动，从而传播研究经验、知识和经验。将资源提供给新的和潜在的服务不足的社区。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。

This workshop-based project aims to develop a suite of practical recommendations to mitigate the challenges of grant submission at the nation’s approximately 1700 primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) that grant 4-year or higher degrees. By examining in-depth the roles of campus administrations, professional organizations, and informal networks that contribute to this process, the project is uniquely positioned to identify barriers and solutions. A pilot study indicates that a few staff in each grant-active PUI perform the same core research development (RD) functions as a much larger and more specialized RD staff at large research universities. Yet, these functions are under extensive strain due to competing priorities and limited resources. The project team uses recent data from small and large data collections, earlier literature, and expert consultations to develop concise background materials and agendas to better understand the nature and variations of RD among PUIs. By convening a series of regional two-day workshops, approximately 16 participants (per workshop) representative of PUI types and RD personnel, materials will be reviewed and specific ideas and priorities developed. Subsequent public webinars and related channels add to the basis for a report with national recommendations for evidence development, demonstration programs, and evaluation to promote systemic long-term enhancement of the PUI research enterprise. By crystallizing knowledge of unique aspects of PUI RD challenges, promoting strength-based rather than deficit-based modeling of PUI needs, capacities, and growth paths, and broadening the participation of currently less active segments of the PUI universe, the project will provide concrete, independent, expert suggestions on how to enhance national networks of communication and service to more effectively support PUI research activities, thus spreading research experience, knowledge, and resources to new and potentially underserved communities.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.