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

亚利桑那州高级研究管理领导者区域联盟(CLARA)寻求利用经验丰富的个人的现有知识，为研究管理从业者创建高质量、免费入职、持续专业发展图书馆和活跃的专业网络。研究管理从业者为研究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。对于大多数高等教育机构来说，联邦政府是最大的资金来源。掌握这些过程的专门知识使科学专家能够推进其学科的研究，并将重点放在教育和指导学生上，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出现合规问题的风险，这些问题的管理成本可能很高，还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。克拉拉的成立将在几个方面帮助推进知识建设。克拉拉将制定并记录建立一个可扩展的、真正合作的地区联盟的过程。由亚利桑那州董事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。现有的合作将被用来与新兴的研究机构和为少数群体服务的机构接触。随着Clara的发展，它将开发和共享关于在区域范围内汇集资源的最佳实践、招聘、入职和保留的劳动力发展最佳实践以及创建合规驱动的研究生态系统的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.