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-Eau Claire大学(UWEC)。TCNJ和UWEC是以教学为重点，研究活跃，主要是本科院校(PUI)，具有深厚的教师管理传统。作为EPIIC的合作伙伴，他们将利用他们的共同优势，根据他们的机构战略计划提高伙伴关系的能力。它们将从制度差异中学习，以增强其机构有效参与其区域创新生态系统的能力。这一群体代表了PUI/ERIS(新兴研究机构)中的一部分，他们在拨款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；活跃于研究的教师通常利用本科生作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进行广泛的接触；以及热衷于通过外部合作伙伴创造“现实生活”的机会，这将加强学生对未来工作或在研究生/博士学习中的成功准备，以及加强我们的课程设置。拟议项目的目标是减轻体制内向和外向的文化问题，这些问题阻碍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，在赠款期间，TCNJ将建立一个由领导人组成的咨询委员会，定期举行会议并取得预期成果。TCNJ将盘点现有的合作伙伴关系，并开发一种无缝方法，在不同级别的参与中与行业合作。这项工作的一个关键组成部分将是利用握手作为一种手段，将学生与行业机会联系起来，并跟踪企业合作伙伴关系。该项目将使TCNJ和UWEC能够利用未被充分利用的潜力，并为未来的伙伴关系发展改善机构能力和定位；增加学生参与受使用启发的项目以及回答研究和技术问题，从而提高学生的成功；鼓励不活跃于研究的教员再次参与研究和奖学金，并防止活跃于研究的教员变得不活跃；增加技术/经济发展的活动；并示范活跃于研究的PUI如何有效地参与区域创新生态系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.