CSUF Research Gateway Project (CSUF RGP)

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学，富勒顿（CSUF），一个大型的，综合性的，主要是本科，西班牙裔服务机构正在经历其研究企业的变革。六年前，CSUF制定了一项计划，重新组织其基础设施，以改善支持教师和学生研究，学术和创造性活动的服务。从那时起，大量资源投入到这一重组中，导致赠款提案提交和奖励大幅增加。然而，赠款活动的快速增长对相对较新的研究管理基础设施造成了额外的压力，揭示了许多仍然存在的影响教师生产力和成功的障碍。这些障碍包括：服务分散，权力下放的赠款支助办公室工作人员在解释政策和程序时前后不一，以及无法在多个网站上找到最新信息。因此，为了消除这些障碍，并使CSUF进入全面改革的最后阶段，PI正在寻求美国国立卫生研究院生物医学/生物行为研究管理发展（布拉德）计划对“CSUF研究门户项目（CSUF RGP）”的部分支持。CSUF RGP的总体目标是提高机构赠款支持能力，从而提高教师的研究生产力，扩大学生对研究项目的参与。为实现这一目标，参与者提出了以下三个具体目标：1）政策审查、制定、调整和制度化， 所有授予前和授予后服务，以消除资助管理流程中的差距和不一致; 2）研究网关设计和实施，通过创建CSUF研究相关资源的中央、全面的在线存储库，消除低效率和信息碎片化;三是培训，发展和制度化，以尽量减少来自不同支助办事处的个人在解释政策方面的差异，为教职员工和学生举办赠款开发和管理讲习班。通过实现上述目标，加州州立大学富勒顿分校将提供高效，一致和友好的客户服务，以其教师和学生，同时连接符合联邦和州的监管要求，导致增加PI的研究生产力，并最终改善健康和福祉的社会通过增加美国国立卫生研究院和其他授予该机构的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), a large, comprehensive, primarily undergraduate, Hispanic Serving Institution is undergoing transformative changes in its research enterprise. Six years ago, CSUF put together a plan to re-organize its infrastructure to improve services supporting faculty and student research, and scholarly and creative activities. Since that time substantial resources were invested in this reorganization leading to a significant increase in grant proposal submissions and awards. However, this rapid growth in grant activities placed additional stress on the relatively new research administration infrastructure, unveiling many still existing barriers that affect faculty productivity and success. These barriers include fragmentation of services, inconsistencies in interpreting policies and procedures by staff in decentralized, grant support offices, and the inability to find up-to-date information across multiple websites. Thus, in order to eliminate thes barriers, and to move CSUF into the final phase of its comprehensive overhaul, the PIs are seeking partial support from the National Institutes of Health Biomedical/Biobehavioral Research Administration Development (BRAD) program for the "CSUF Research Gateway Project (CSUF RGP)". The overarching goal of the CSUF RGP is to increase the institutional grant support capacity and, thus, enhance research productivity of faculty and broaden participation of students in research programs. To reach this goal, the PIs are proposing the following three Specific Aims: 1) policy review, development, alignment and institutionalization in all pre- and post-award services to eliminate gaps and inconsistencies in grant administration processes; 2) Research Gateway design and implementation to eliminate inefficiencies and fragmentation of information by creating a central, comprehensive online repository of CSUF research-related resources; and 3) training, development and institutionalization to minimize discrepancies in interpretation of policies by individuals from various support offices and to provide ongoing grants development and management workshops to faculty, staff, and students. By achieving the above aims, Cal State Fullerton will provide efficient, consistent, and friendly customer service to its faculty and students, while linking compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, leading to increased research productivity of PIs and ultimately improve the health and well-being of the community at large by increasing the number of NIH and other grants awarded to the institution.