Conference: Research Developers as Hubs of Support to Launch and Level Up Faculty's Research Careers and Nurturing Institutional Ecosystems

拟议的会议将增加研究相关的支持性活动如何帮助早期职业教师，并提高他们的多元化的制度环境的理解。新兴的研究机构和在那里工作的教师在启动和维持研究项目方面遇到了独特的障碍。该项目旨在为这些机构的新教师，工作人员和管理人员量身定制指导和资源，他们可以以无/最低的启动成本或时间投资访问这些资源，以推动他们在研究中的成功。与州和国家专业协会合作，会议将收集回答新兴研究机构服务中的几个问题的想法，其多样化的教授和研究开发（RD）专业知识库：1）具有各种职位描述的工作人员和管理人员如何参与研究开发活动，以指导，联系和支持他们所支持的教师，尤其是那些刚开始从事研究工作的人？2)在规划研究活动方面，对个别教师来说，以及在研究企业的战略投资方面，对机构来说，什么是可行的衡量标准？以及3）如何利用地方，州和国家网络所拥有的资源和专业知识，使所有类型的机构环境中人口统计学上多样化的早期职业教师受益？这些会议的参与者将包括研发和研究管理专业人员;大学，学院和部门领导人;以及早期职业教师。会议结束后，将生成一份执行摘要报告和建议列表（并分享给专业网络），围绕种植研发支持种子的指导问题主题组织，访问可操作的指标，并利用多个知识库支持新教师和新兴研究/少数民族服务机构。通过与国家专业协会的合作，以及对早期职业教师和新兴研究机构的广泛关注，该项目有可能产生建议，资源，以及一个积极参与的利益相关者社区（“联盟”）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用评估来支持。基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The proposed meetings will increase understanding of how research-related supportive activities assist early-career faculty and enhance their diverse institutional environments. Emerging research institutions, and the faculty who work there, have unique obstacles for launching and sustaining research projects. The project aims to develop guidance and resources tailored to new faculty, staff, and administrators at these institutions who can access them with no/minimal startup costs or time investment to advance their success in research. In partnership with state and national professional societies, the convenings will capture ideas for answering several questions in service of emerging research institutions, their diverse professoriate, and the Research Development (RD) professional knowledge base: 1) How can staff and administrators with various position descriptions engage in research development activities to coach, connect, and champion the faculty they support, especially those early in their research career?; 2) What are actionable metrics for individual faculty in terms of planning their research activities and for institutions in terms of strategic investment in their research enterprise?; and 3) How do you leverage the resources and expertise held by local, state, and national networks to the benefit of demographically diverse, early-career faculty in all types of institutional settings? Participants across these convenings will include RD and Research Administration professionals; university, college, and departmental leaders; and early-career faculty members. After the conclusion of the convenings, an executive summary report and list of recommendations will be generated (and shared out to professional networks) organized around the guiding question themes of planting RD support seeds, accessing actionable metrics, and leveraging multiple knowledge bases toward supporting new faculty and emerging-research/minority-serving institutions. Through collaborations with national professional societies and a broadly relevant focus on early-career faculty and emerging research institutions, this project has the potential to produce recommendations, resources, and an engaged stakeholder community ("alliance”) focused on growing research infrastructure and capacity that could be nationally transformative.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.