Promoting Diversity Through Synergy and Collaboration in Research Administration

 描述（由申请人提供）：位于卡伊的波多黎各大学（UPR-C）寻求资金，以发展卫生研究管理能力。UPR-C在全国排名第13位，是STEM学科西班牙裔博士的学士学位来源机构。但是，预算削减（2008 - 2013年之间的13%）和终身教职员工因退休而流失（2006-2014年为25%）挑战了校园管理生物医学和行为科学外部资金的能力，以及对新教师的指导。最近的改进包括定于2015年招聘的10名新员工。该提案将利用现有的UPR-C研究管理基础设施和教师指导资源，促进研究管理的可持续增量改进，以吸引新的资金，并为新的和现有的教师提供专业知识，以培养学生进入生物医学和行为医学领域的长期能力。 研究生涯。这一总体目标将通过以下方式实现：（1）通过制定细则、评估程序和重组研究管理服务，提高能力、政策和组织结构，以确保效率，并随着时间的推移指导研究管理的体制改进，从而产生长期影响; 2)提高教师的生产力和有效性，在竞争外部研究资金与一步一步的奖励前培训提交一个有竞争力的建议;通过有利的工作条件、激励措施、同伴支持网络和针对个人需求的指导，3）改善生物医学和社会医学的合规服务，行为研究，通过协调整合两个单位之间的功能，提供这些服务的大多数教师与生物医学相关的项目：UPR-C赞助项目和研究办公室（OSP&R）和跨学科研究所（IIR）。这项建议是创新的UPR-C，因为它1）到位的行政政策和基础设施的转变，促进更好的连续性之间的任命高层管理人员，2）提供一个协调的指导到结束的指导计划，为教师在格兰披治，和3）是基于合作和巩固的研究行政支持服务之间的OSP&R和IIR更高的效率和更好的服务。拟议的方法将使行政支持服务更接近IIR中活跃在生物医学，社会行为研究中的研究人员和学生，同时集中最终批准和OSP&R，从而提高IIR在协助OSP&R工作人员准备和提交所需报告和道德合规认证方面的效率。预期成果将包括一个经过验证的模型，用于在面临类似体制转型和挑战的主要为本科少数民族服务的机构中实现研究管理的可持续性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR-C) seeks funding to develop health research administration capacity. UPR-C ranks 13th nationally as a baccalaureate source institution for Hispanic PhDs in STEM disciplines. But budget cuts (13% between 2008 -2013) and loss of tenured teaching faculty due to retirement (25% 2006-2014) have challenged campus capacity for management of external funding in biomedical and behavioral sciences, and mentoring for new faculty. Recent improvements include 1o new hires that are slated for 2015. This proposal will capitalize on existing UPR-C research management infrastructure and resources for faculty mentoring, to catalyze sustainable incremental improvements in research administration to attract new funding, and to provide new and existing faculty with expertise, for long term capacity to train students to enter biomedical and behavioral research careers. This overall goal will be implemented via 1) Growing competency, policy, and organizational structure for long-term effects by establishing bylaws, assessment procedures, and restructuring research administration services to ensure efficiency and guide institutional improvements in research administration over time.; 2) Increasing faculty productivity and effectiveness in competing for external research funding with a step-by-step pre-award training for submitting a competitive proposal; facilitated by favorable working conditions, incentives, peer-support networks, and mentoring tailored to individual needs, and 3) Improving compliance services for biomedical and socio-behavioral research through coordinated integration of functions between the two units that offer most of these services to most faculty with biomedically-related projects: the UPR-C Office of Sponsored Projects and Research (OSP&R) and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIR). This proposal is innovative for UPR-C in that it 1) puts in place administrative policy and infrastructure transformations that promote better continuity between appointments of upper administrators, 2) provide a coordinated beginning-to-end mentoring program for faculty in grantsmanship, and 3) is based on collaboration and consolidation of research administration support services between the OSP&R and IIR for greater efficiency and better service. The proposed approach will place administrative support services closer to researchers and students active in biomedical, socio-behavioral research at the IIR, while centralizing final approval and at the OSP&R, thereby increasing IIR's efficiency in assisting OSP&R staff in the preparation and submission of required reports and ethical compliance certifications. The Expected Outcomes will include a proven, model for attaining sustainability in research administration at predominantly undergraduate minority- serving institutions facing similar institutional transformation and challenges.