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，以减轻在全国约1700个授予4年或更高学位的主要本科院校（PUI）提交补助金的挑战。通过深入研究校园管理，专业组织和非正式网络，有助于这一过程中的作用，该项目是独特的定位，以确定障碍和解决方案。一项试点研究表明，少数工作人员在每个赠款活跃的PUI执行相同的核心研究开发（RD）的功能作为一个更大的，更专业的RD人员在大型研究型大学。然而，由于优先事项相互竞争和资源有限，这些职能受到广泛的压力。项目团队使用小型和大型数据收集的最新数据，早期文献和专家咨询，以制定简明的背景材料和议程，以更好地了解PUI之间RD的性质和变化。通过召开一系列为期两天的区域研讨会（每个研讨会约有16名PUI类型和研发人员的代表），将对材料进行审查，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报告提供了基础，其中包括国家证据开发，示范计划和评估建议，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PUI需求，能力和增长路径的基于实力而不是基于赤字的建模，以及扩大PUI世界目前不太活跃的部分的参与，该项目将提供具体，独立的专家建议，如何加强国家通信和服务网络，以更有效地支持PUI研究活动，该奖项反映了NSF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.