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

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是以教学为中心，研究活跃的主要本科院校（PUI），具有强大的教师治理传统。作为EPIIC的合作伙伴，它们将利用共同的优势，根据各自的机构战略计划提高伙伴关系的能力。它们将从其体制差异中学习，以提高其机构有效参与区域创新生态系统的能力。该队列代表PUI/ERI的细分（新兴的研究机构），有一个坚实的基础研究支持教师在赠款办公室和相关政策和程序方面;研究活跃的教师谁一般利用本科生为他们的主要实验室支持;战略计划，鼓励与更广泛的社区和外部合作伙伴的广泛参与;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劳动力或研究生/博士研究的成功做好准备，并加强我们的课程设置。拟议项目的目标是减轻阻碍这些机构充分发挥其建立和维持外部伙伴关系的潜力的体制性内向和外向文化问题。为了实现这一目标，在赠款期间，TCNJ将建立一个由领导人组成的咨询理事会，定期举行会议并取得预期成果。TCNJ将清点现有的伙伴关系，并制定一个无缝的方法，在各个参与级别与行业合作。这项工作的一个关键组成部分将是利用握手作为连接学生与行业机会和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;增加学生参与实用项目和回答研究和技术问题，从而提高学生的成功率;鼓励不从事研究的教师再次从事研究和奖学金，并防止研究活跃的教师变得不活跃;该奖项反映了NSF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。

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.