Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Managing Culture Change on Two Fronts: Strengthening Our Capacity to Develop Partnerships

合作研究：EPIIC：从两个方面管理文化变革：加强我们发展伙伴关系的能力

• 批准号: 2331372
• 负责人: Andrea Welker
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: The College of New Jersey
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EPIIC; Managing; Culture

This is a collaborative project across the following institutions: The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC). TCNJ and UWEC are teaching-focused, research-active primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) with strong traditions of faculty governance. As EPIIC partners, they will leverage their common strengths to increase capacity for partnerships in alignment with their institutional strategic plans. They will learn from their institutional differences to enhance their institutions’ capacity to engage effectively in their regional innovation ecosystems. This cohort represents the segment of PUI/ERIs (emerging research institutions) that have a solid baseline of research support for faculty in terms of grants offices and relevant policies and procedures; research-active faculty who generally draw on undergraduates for their primary lab support; strategic plans that encourage broad-based engagement with the broader community and external partners; and a passion for creating “real-life” opportunities through external partnerships that will strengthen student preparation for futures in the workforce or success in graduate/doctoral studies as well as strengthen our curricular offerings. The goal of the proposed project is to mitigate institutional inward-facing and outward-facing cultural issues that prevent each of these institutions from reaching their full potential in forming and sustaining external partnerships. To accomplish this goal, during the grant period, TCNJ will create an advisory council of leaders with regular meetings and expected outcomes. TCNJ will inventory existing partnerships and develop a seamless approach to partner with industry at various levels of engagement. A key component of this work will be leveraging Handshake as a means of connecting students with industry opportunities and tracking corporate partnerships. This project will enable TCNJ and UWEC to leverage underutilized potential and improve institutional capacity and positioning for future partnership development; increase student engagement in use-inspired projects and in answering research and technology questions, leading to enhanced student success; encourage research-inactive faculty to engage again with research and scholarship and prevent research-active faculty from becoming inactive; increase activity in technology/economic development; and model how research-active PUIs can meaningfully engage in regional innovation ecosystems.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.

这是一个跨以下机构的合作项目：新泽西学院（TCNJ）和威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校（UWEC）。TCNJ和UWEC都是以教学为中心，研究活跃的本科院校（PUIs），具有强大的教师治理传统。作为EPIIC的合作伙伴，它们将利用各自的共同优势，根据各自的机构战略计划提高建立伙伴关系的能力。他们将从各自的制度差异中学习，以增强其机构有效参与区域创新生态系统的能力。这个群体代表了PUI/ERIs（新兴研究机构）的一部分，他们在资助办公室和相关政策和程序方面为教师提供了坚实的研究支持基线；研究活跃的教师，通常利用本科生作为主要的实验室支持；鼓励与更广泛的社区和外部合作伙伴进行广泛接触的战略计划；以及通过外部合作伙伴关系创造“现实生活”机会的热情，这将加强学生为未来的劳动力或研究生/博士学习的成功做好准备，并加强我们的课程设置。拟议项目的目标是减轻机构内向和外向的文化问题，这些问题阻碍了这些机构在形成和维持外部伙伴关系方面充分发挥其潜力。为了实现这一目标，在资助期间，TCNJ将成立一个由领导人组成的咨询委员会，定期召开会议并取得预期成果。TCNJ将盘点现有的合作伙伴关系，并开发一种无缝的方法，与不同层次的行业合作。这项工作的一个关键组成部分将是利用Handshake作为一种将学生与行业机会联系起来并跟踪企业合作伙伴关系的手段。该项目将使TCNJ和UWEC能够利用未充分利用的潜力，提高机构能力和定位，以促进未来的伙伴关系发展；增加学生参与以使用为灵感的项目和回答研究和技术问题，从而提高学生的成功程度；鼓励不积极从事研究的教师再次从事研究和学术研究，防止积极从事研究的教师变得不积极；增加技术/经济发展活动；并建立研究活跃的公共投资机构如何有意义地参与区域创新生态系统的模型。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。