Strengthening Sponsored Research Infrastructure and Faculty Development at Swarthmore College

描述（由申请人提供）：斯沃斯莫尔有一个赞助的研究计划，可以被认为是一个小的文科学院强大。该项目旨在使学院的做法达到我们的R1合作伙伴的水平。这将使斯沃斯莫尔能够更有效地与R1级机构合作，无论是作为分包商还是主要受让人。这种能力建设将反过来扩大我们国家的本科研究人员库-这是一个重要的管道，因为斯沃斯莫尔是全国第四大人均生产的学生谁去实现自然科学，工程或社会科学博士学位。此外，这里提出的赞助研究增强旨在在同行机构复制;斯沃斯莫尔将分享有关从小型到中型赞助研究计划的最佳实践（和陷阱，以避免）的信息。 该项目是及时的：2011年12月，斯沃斯莫尔完成了最新的战略计划，突出了教师和学生的研究，高影响力的学习经验，以社区为基础的学习和研究，并创造一个更加多样化，包容性的校园文化。在未来几年，我们预计将聘请约25-30名新教师，因为我们从5到4门课程的负荷移动，与教师花更多的时间让学生参与自己的研究和学生的研究导师的同时期望。此外，在过去的十年中，斯沃斯莫尔开创了一些项目，以促进代表性不足的少数民族（URM）参与STEM研究;现在，随着未来十年计划增加学生入学人数，学院寻求加倍努力。我们还看到在某些领域（例如，我们新兴的神经科学课程;由经济系教师领导的行为健康研究），并将在这些领域建立明确的赞助研究联系。 合格的学生对研究机会的需求超过了学院提供这些机会的能力：不仅是实验室研究，而且包括国际和当地社区项目在内的社会科学研究，斯沃斯莫尔学院的教师（和学生）正在从事日益复杂和具有挑战性的行为和社会科学研究。 该项目旨在确保斯沃斯莫尔在所有这些领域的增长得到积极主动的赞助研究办公室的支持，该办公室通过有效的前/后奖励管理和合规战略和工具得到加强，并得到校园文化中明确的机构政策的支持，该政策承认使卓越研究成为可能的基础设施需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Swarthmore has a sponsored research program that can be considered robust for a small liberal arts college. This project is designed to bring the College's practices up to the level of our R1 partners. This will enable Swarthmore to collaborate more effectively with R1-level institutions, either as a subcontractor or prime grantee. This capacity-building will, in turn, expand our nation's pool of undergraduate researchers - an important pipeline, as Swarthmore is fourth in the country in per capita production of students who go on to achieve a PhD in the natural sciences, engineering, or the social sciences. Furthermore, the sponsored research enhancement proposed here is designed to be replicable at peer institutions; Swarthmore will share information about best practices for (and pitfalls to avoid) in growing from a small- to medium-sized sponsored research program. The project is timely: In December 2011, Swarthmore completed its latest strategic plan, which foregrounds faculty and student research, high-impact learning experiences, community-based learning and research, and creating a more diverse, inclusive campus culture. In the coming years, we expect to hire approximately 25-30 new faculty, as we move from a 5- to 4-course load, with the concurrent expectation that faculty spend increased time on involving students in their own research and mentorship of students' research. Also, over the past decade Swarthmore has pioneered some programs to promote underrepresented minority (URM) participation in STEM research; now, with student enrollment increases planned for the coming decade, the College seeks to redouble those efforts. We also see additional as-yet-untapped potential for sponsored research growth in certain fields (e.g., our emerging neuroscience curriculum; behavioral health research led by faculty in the Economics Department) and will develop explicit sponsored research connections in those areas. Qualified student demand for research opportunities is outstripping the College's ability to provide them: not only laboratory research, but social science research that includes international and local community projects, and Swarthmore faculty (and students) are engaging in increasingly complex and challenging behavioral and social science research. This project seeks to ensure Swarthmore's growth in all these areas is supported by a proactive Sponsored Research Office strengthened by efficient pre-/post-award administration and compliance strategies and tools and backed by clear institutional policies in a campus culture that recognizes the infrastructural needs that make research excellence possible.