Improving Research Administration and Faculty Research Development through Sustainable Initiatives at StMU

StMU 通过可持续举措改善研究管理和教师研究发展

• 批准号: 9116881
• 负责人: Patricia Cubeta Zibluk
• 金额: $ 9.12万
• 依托单位: ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9116881
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Improving Research Administration and Faculty Research Development through Sustainable Initiatives at St. Mary's University (StMU). StMU external funding portfolio has doubled over the last two and a half years from $4,024,157 million in FY 2011 to $9,212,659 million as of October 1, 2014. This expansion may be attributed to new administration at all levels, the desire to have a more balanced portfolio between teaching and research, the emergence of new disciplines at the university, and the entry of a large group of STEM faculty over the past five years. However, this expansion has placed tremendous pressure on its research administrative infrastructure. In addition, federal regulations and external pressure for fiscal and regulatory accountability have complicated the research administration environment over the last decade. Although the StMU research administration office has been successful in making a number of improvements over the last few years, such as electronic research administration, the overall investment in research administration support structure has not kept pace with the expectations or growth in the sponsored program portfolio. Further, as the competitiveness for grant funds increases, it becomes more important for a successful research university to have the best support structure to increase the institutions and the faculty's competitiveness. Review of current research administrative processes at StMU reveal several areas that need to be addressed in order to provide efficient and effective services to the faculty. Because StMU is a Primarily Undergraduate Institution it is very difficult for faculty to balance their relatively high teachin loads (4 courses per semester), their mentoring of students, and their other commitments to their departments. If faculty members had release time from teaching duties to engage in intense research proposal development it would be productive way to increase grant submissions. Secondly, the StMU Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs (OARSP) has only one full time staff, the Executive Director, a 3/4 time administration support person, and one part-time post-award support person. At a university of the size and scope of St. Mary's, additional support is needed in the pre- and post-award support, grant writing, and compliance and training. Because of limited staffing it is difficult for OARSP to provide the level of service to research faculty that is needed if StMU is to continue to grow and be successful in acquiring funding. The application for funding contained herein proposes three goals to address the current weaknesses in StMU management of the pre and post award processes related to the administration of external sponsored research; 1) To improve the proposal development services to the faculty (i.e. providing grant training workshops, training on use of the electronic grant administration, enhancing related resources for new investigators and hiring a FTE for research administration); 2) To strengthen post-award services (i.e., workshops targeting post-award issues for faculty, developing our website with more on-line sources of information regarding regulatory issues, attending NCURA or SRA workshops on post-award procedures) and 3) To promote the sustainability of improvements made to the research administration process through the implementation of ongoing professional development / training for research faculty, administrators and students. In order to accomplish the goals of this project and to promote sustainability a series of activities are planned, including but not limited to, 1) The training of the PI/EA to become a leader of both short-term and long-term change, 2) Establishing regular training opportunities for research faculty and administrative staff (i.e. grat writing, compliance training, and grants management workshops, and the provision of support for faculty to concentrate on proposal development, 3) The development of an up-to-the date resource library for grants administration policies and procedures and, lastly, 4) The creation of a program to recruit and train new research administration personnel.

 描述（由申请人提供）：通过在圣玛丽玛丽大学（StMU）的可持续举措，改善研究管理和教师研究发展。StMU外部资金组合在过去两年半的时间里翻了一番，从2011财年的40241.57亿美元增加到2014年10月1日的92126.59亿美元。这种扩张可能归因于各级新的管理，希望在教学和研究之间有一个更平衡的投资组合，在大学新学科的出现，以及在过去的五年里一大批STEM教师的进入。然而，这种扩张对其研究行政基础设施造成了巨大压力。此外，联邦法规和外部压力的财政和监管问责制复杂的研究管理环境在过去的十年。尽管StMU研究管理办公室在过去几年中成功地进行了一些改进，例如电子研究管理，但研究管理支持结构的整体投资并没有跟上赞助计划组合的预期或增长。此外，随着赠款资金竞争的增加， 一所成功的研究型大学，更重要的是要有最佳的支援架构，以提高院校和学院的竞争力。在StMU目前的研究行政流程的审查揭示了需要解决的几个领域，以提供高效和有效的服务，教师。由于StMU是一所私立本科院校，教师很难平衡他们相对较高的教学负担（每学期4门课程），他们对学生的指导，以及他们对部门的其他承诺。如果教职员工有时间从教学职责中解放出来，从事密集的研究提案开发，这将是增加拨款申请的有效方式。其次，StMU学术研究和赞助项目办公室（OARSP）只有一名全职工作人员，执行主任，3/4时间的行政支持人员和一名兼职奖后支持人员。在规模和范围的圣玛丽玛丽的大学，额外的支持是需要在奖前和奖后的支持，赠款写作，以及遵守和培训。由于工作人员有限， 如果StMU要继续发展并成功获得资金，则需要为研究人员提供服务。本文所载的资金申请提出了三个目标，以解决目前StMU在与外部赞助研究管理有关的奖励前和奖励后过程中的管理弱点; 1）改善对教师的提案开发服务（即提供赠款培训讲习班，使用电子 （二）加强研究后的服务（即，研讨会针对获奖后的问题，为教师，开发我们的网站与更多的在线信息来源有关的监管问题，参加NCURA或SRA研讨会获奖后的程序）和3）为了促进可持续性的改进，通过实施持续的专业发展/培训研究教师，管理人员和学生的研究管理过程。为了实现本项目的目标并促进可持续性，计划开展一系列活动，包括但不限于：1）培训PI/EA，使其成为短期和长期变革的领导者，2）为研究人员和行政人员提供定期培训机会（即grat写作，合规培训和赠款管理研讨会，并为教师提供支持，以专注于提案开发，3）开发一个最新的资源库，用于赠款管理政策和程序，最后，4）创建一个计划，招聘和培训新的研究管理人员。