Strengthening Research and Sponsored Projects at Webster University (SRSP)

 描述（由申请人提供）：韦伯斯特大学是一个以学生为中心，学费为导向的机构，重视教学和学术卓越。从传统的重教学文化向平衡的教学和研究文化的转变需要机构层面的变革。从历史上看，韦伯斯特一直强调教学的卓越性，而不是研究的生产力，虽然这是改变了新的管理。对教师研究的日益重视，在生物科学，一个新的赋予教授职位，以及即将建设的跨学科科学建设，使这是一个理想的时间，以正规化的研究管理和扩大研究生产力在韦伯斯特。我们的目标是建立一个可持续的研究和赞助项目办公室（ORSP），为竞争外部资金的教师提供服务和支持。这将需要一个ORSP和教师的倡议，以满足这些目标的发展，具有以下目标。目标1：发展新的研究和赞助项目办公室（ORSP），目前是企业基金会和政府关系（CFGR），以鼓励和支持外部资助的研究。这包括通过对赠款官员进行研究管理方面的持续培训以及NIH和NCURA的会计培训来加强管理。目标2：审查和重组机构政策，以消除障碍，激励教师追求外部研究资金。这将包括将研究作为一个新的优先事项，并审查招聘，任期和晋升政策，以鼓励和给予信贷的教学和研究的平衡。我们将探索新的激励结构，并审查和澄清政策，以支持教师的时间专门用于开发和管理研究赠款。目标3：发展教师的研究生产力，成功地追求外部研究资金和增加研究资助活动。我们将促进并提供更多资助撰写和研究方法方面的培训。我们将指定一个教师研究主任谁将是教师顾问，新的ORSP与责任，提供周围的研究，出版和赠款写作教师指导。在STEM和生物医学领域，学生中有38%的少数民族和55%的女性，这表明韦伯斯特大学在招募和留住代表性不足的学生方面也取得了成功。提高韦伯斯特教师的研究生产力将为代表性不足的学生提供更多的机会参与行为和生物医学研究，他们更有可能选择这些领域的职业。我们建议提供培训，以教师在补助金写作，培养本科研究人员，并平衡教学，研究和服务的期望，将支持激励促进和实现外部赠款资金。有了这个布拉德应用程序，我们坚信，韦伯斯特大学是理想的定位，使过渡到增加研究和外部资金，同时促进机会不足的少数民族学生是干，生物医学和行为研究的重要组成部分。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Webster University is a student-focused, tuition-driven institution that values teaching and academic excellence. The transformation from a traditionally teaching-heavy culture to a balanced teaching and research culture requires institutional level changes. Historically, Webster has emphasized teaching excellence but not research productivity, though that is changing with a new administration. The growing emphasis on faculty research, a new endowed professorship in biological sciences, and the imminent construction of an interdisciplinary science building make this an ideal time to formalize research administration and expand research productivity at Webster. Our objective is to build a sustained Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) that serves and supports the faculty in competing for external funding. This will require development of an ORSP and faculty initiatives to meet these goals, with the following Aims. Aim 1: Develop the new Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP), currently the Corporate Foundation and Government Relations (CFGR), to encourage and support externally funded research. This includes enhancing administration through ongoing training in research administration for grants officers and in accounting from NIH and NCURA. Aim 2: Review and reorganize institutional policies to remove barriers and incentivize the pursuit of external research funding by faculty. This will include setting research as a new priority and reviewing hiring, tenure, and promotion policies to encourage and give credit for a balance of teaching and research. We will explore new incentive structures and review and clarify policies for support of faculty time devoted to developing and managing research grants. Aim 3: Develop faculty research productivity for successful pursuit of external research funding and increase research grant activity. We will promote and provide increased training in grant writing and research methodology. We will designate a Faculty Research Director who will be Faculty Advisor to the new ORSP with responsibilities to provide faculty mentoring around research, publishing, and grant writing. The student body has 38% under-represented minorities and 55% females in STEM and biomedical areas, demonstrating that Webster University has also been successful in recruiting and retaining underrepresented students. Increasing the research productivity of Webster faculty will provide increased opportunities for underrepresented students to participate in behavioral and biomedical research with a greater likelihood that they choose careers in those areas. We propose to provide training to faculty in grant writing, cultivate undergraduate researchers, and balance expectations for teaching, research, and service that will support incentives for promoting and attaining external grant funding. With this BRAD application, we strongly believe that Webster University is ideally positioned to make the transition to increased research and external funding, while promoting opportunities for under-represented minority students to be a critical part of STEM, biomedical, and behavioral research.