Conference: GRANTED DCL: Arizona Regional Coalition of Leaders in Advanced Research Administration (CLARA)

亚利桑那地区高级研究管理领导联盟（CLARA）寻求利用有经验的个人的现有知识来创建高质量的、免费的、持续的专业发展图书馆，并为研究管理从业者建立一个活跃的专业网络。研究管理从业人员为调查人员提供行政研究支持，包括提交、谈判和管理由外部组织资助的项目。对大多数高等教育机构来说，联邦政府是最大的资金来源。引导这些过程的专业知识使科学专家能够推进其学科的研究，并专注于教育和指导学生，而不是研究的行政方面。此外，研究管理方面的专家可以帮助降低发展合规问题的风险，这些问题的管理成本很高，也可能导致不道德的研究实践或对受特定研究影响的个人造成实际伤害。CLARA的建立将在几个方面帮助推进知识建设。CLARA将开发并记录建立一个可扩展的、真正协作的区域联盟的过程。由亚利桑那评议委员会管理的三所州立大学目前每半年举办一次研究管理会议。现有的合作将被用于新兴研究和少数民族服务机构。随着CLARA的发展，它将开发和分享关于在区域范围内汇集资源的最佳实践的知识，开发招聘、入职和保留员工的最佳实践，并创建一个合规驱动的研究生态系统。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 Arizona Regional Coalition of Leaders in Advanced Research Administration (CLARA) seeks to leverage existing knowledge of experienced individuals to create high-quality, free onboarding, continuing professional development libraries, and an active professional network for research administration practitioners. Research administration practitioners provide investigators with administrative research support including submitting, negotiating, and managing projects funded by external organizations. For most institutions of higher education, the federal government is the largest source of funding. Expertise in navigating these processes allows the scientific experts to advance research in their discipline and focus on educating and mentoring students rather than the administrative side of research. Additionally, experts in research administration can assist to decrease the risk of developing compliance issues which can be costly to manage and can also lead to unethical research practices or actual harm to individuals impacted by specific research studies. The establishment of CLARA will help advance knowledge-building in several ways. CLARA will develop and document the process of establishing a scalable, truly collaborative regional coalition. The three state universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents currently host a semi-annual research administration conference. The existing collaboration will be leveraged to engage with emerging research and minority-serving institutions. As CLARA grows, it will develop and share knowledge on best practices for pooling resources at a regional scale, workforce development best practices for recruitment, onboarding, and retention, and creating a compliance driven research ecosystem.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.