Increasing Competitiveness and Capacity through Research Administration at Nazareth College

 描述(由申请者提供)：罗切斯特拿撒勒学院是一所小型的、独立的、男女同校的私立文理学院，具有重大的地区影响。《普林斯顿评论》将拿撒勒学院评为最佳379所大学：2015版，被评为本科教育最佳院校之一。《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳学院(2015版)指南将拿撒勒大学列为 最佳地区性大学--北方。拿撒勒提供生物医学和生物行为研究(BBR)、科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)以及健康与人文科学(HHS)学科的广泛专业和专业课程。最近的校园改善扩大和升级了容纳这些项目的设施。尽管拿撒勒学院升级了设施和聘用了教员，但在为其生物医学和生物行为研究获得外部资金方面并不成功。无法成功竞争外部奖项的部分原因是赞助项目和学院研究办公室(OSPFR)缺乏资源和基础设施，部分原因是缺乏与拨款申请和管理相关的教师发展机会。拿撒勒学院认识到，其OSPFR必须满足学院、教职员工以及最终学生的需求。为此，它最近为OSPFR聘请了一位新的主任Jennifer E.B.Harman博士，负责建立这个研究企业。拿撒勒学院扩大其研究事业背后的驱动力是对教学学院研究价值的日益认可，需要教员研究生产力的卫生和人文科学领域经认证的课程的扩大，以及拿撒勒日益增长的“积极学术”的地区声誉。这个项目与学院增加本科生研究机会的战略计划以及招收不同群体的承诺很好地配合在一起。拿撒勒学院的目标是到2020年将内部和外部资助的研究增加25%。拿撒勒学院还寻求通过与罗切斯特、布法罗、锡拉丘兹和纽约市的学校合作，增加其多样性，目的是找出对BBR、STEM或HHS领域的职业感兴趣的代表不足的少数族裔。布拉德奖的目标是加速这些倡议，增加已经开始的变化的势头，并成为一个可行的、可持续的研究计划。该提案的目标是1：研究管理人员的专业发展，2：增加STEM和HHS教师的专业发展机会，3：OSPFR的基础设施升级。该项目的目标是为教师、哈曼博士和OSPFR的其他成员提供教育机会。OSPFR的专业发展将丰富哈曼博士的背景，而教师的专业发展机会将为教师寻求外部资金提供必要的资源。OSPFR基础设施将减少拟定提案和管理授标所需的行政工作。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nazareth College of Rochester is a small, independent, co-educational, private liberal arts college with a substantial regional impact. The Princeton Review featured Nazareth College in its The Best 379 Colleges: 2015 editions, as one of the best institutions for undergraduate education. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges (2015 edition) guide ranks Nazareth in the top tier of colleges and universities in the category of Best Regional Universities - North. Nazareth offers a wide range of majors and professional programs in biomedical and biobehavioral research (BBR); science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and Health and Human Sciences (HHS) disciplines. Recent campus improvements have expanded and upgraded the facilities that house these programs. Despite upgraded facilities and engaged faculty Nazareth College has not been successful in securing external funding for its biomedical and biobehavioral research. This inability to compete successfully for external awards is in part due to a lack of resources and infrastructure in the Office of Sponsored Programs and Faculty Research (OSPFR) and partly due to a lack of access to faculty development opportunities related to grant seeking and management. Nazareth College recognizes that its OSPFR must be developed to meet the needs of the college, faculty and ultimately its students. To this end it has recently hired a new Director for the OSPFR, Dr. Jennifer E.B. Harman, responsible for building the research enterprise. The driving force behind Nazareth College's expansion of its research enterprise is the increased recognition of the value of research in a teaching college, the expansion of accredited programs in the health and human sciences requiring faculty research productivity, and Nazareth's growing regional reputation for "engaged scholarship." This project times well with the College's strategic plan to increase opportunities for undergraduate research and its commitment to enrolling a diverse population. Nazareth College has the goal of increasing internal and externally funded research 25% by 2020. Nazareth College also seeks to increase its diversity through partnerships with schools in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse and New York City with the intent to identify under-represented minorities who show interest in careers in BBR, STEM or HHS fields. The goal of the BRAD award is to expedite these initiatives, increase the momentum of change that has already begun, and emerge as a viable, sustained research program. The aims of the proposal are 1: professional development for research administrators, 2: increasing faculty profession development opportunities for STEM and HHS faculty and 3: infrastructure upgrades to the OSPFR. Aims of this program focus on educational opportunities for faculty, Dr. Harman and other members of the OSPFR. Professional development for OSPFR will enrich Dr. Harman's background while professional development opportunities for faculty will provide the resources necessary for faculty to seek external funding. OSPFR infrastructure will reduce the administrative effort required for proposal development and management of awards.