SPAD at Auburn University at Montgomery

蒙哥马利奥本大学SPAD 就像世界各地以本科院校(PUI)为主的STEM教师一样，奥本大学位于 蒙哥马利大学(Montgomery)的教职员工必须克服一系列令人望而生畏的阻碍因素，寻求外部资金。重的 教学负担，缺乏专门的研究空间或时间进行研究，不熟悉拨款计划，以及 程序，一种认为成功的可能性微乎其微的感觉，甚至是现成的夏天 教学机会，所有的行动都创造了一种在寻求拨款方面不抱太大期望的教员文化。但 通过一系列旨在更好地满足我们多样化的学生群体需求的新举措，AUM 正在经历一场文化变革，人们对教员研究和参与的期望正在迅速提升。 在这一关键时刻，奥委会迫切需要一个扩大和重组的OSPR。 为了支持新的倡议和不断变化的专注于研究和参与的校园文化，AUM 正在寻求SPAD资金以重组和扩大其赞助项目办公室(OSP)，以跟上 迅速增长的教职员工对寻求外部资助的兴趣。该项目的具体目标是： 1.通过雇用和培训新工作人员并为他们提供以下能力来提高OSP的能力-- 基于培训的培训和专业发展，包括培训和构建支持以下内容的基础设施 这方面的继续教育。 2.为开发和提交申请建立新的OSP服务、政策和程序 并就这些新的服务、政策和程序向教职员工提供培训和支持； 3.建立注重成本分担和工作量管理的教师奖励机制，促进 研究和创造活动； 4.扩大教职员工和学生的合作研究伙伴关系和资助机会，特别是通过 奥本大学和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校。 5.为学生提供与教师和OSP合作的机会，以获得撰写补助金的技能；以及 6.与澳大多元化办公室合作，为教职员工提供文化能力方面的支架式研讨会 促进为针对PUI的赠款创建有效的赠款撰写团队。 SPAD赠款将使AUM能够创建一个OSPR，它将在促进这方面发挥重要作用 新的研究和学术文化，这将鼓励赠款资助的教师培训和课程 发展，并帮助创建新的项目，用于研究、培训和指导贫困非洲人- 美国学生，他们占我们学生总数的42%。这个项目的成功与否将是决定性的。 通过衡量教职员工与OSP互动、提交建议书、创建新的 研究合作，扩大对学生研究人员的指导，以及出版物的数量。

SPAD at Auburn University at Montgomery Like STEM faculty at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) everywhere, Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) faculty must overcome a daunting array of disincentives to pursue external funding. Heavy teaching loads, lack of dedicated research space or time for research, an unfamiliarity with grant programs and procedures, a perception that the likelihood of success was remote, even the ready availability of summer teaching opportunities, all acted to create a faculty culture of low expectations with regards to grant seeking. But with a range of new initiatives designed to better serve the needs of our diverse student body, AUM is experiencing a cultural change, where expectations for faculty research and engagement are escalating rapidly. At this critical juncture, AUM has crucial need for an expanded and reorganized OSPR. In support of new initiatives and a changing campus culture focusing on research and engagement, AUM is seeking SPAD funding to reorganize and expand its Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) to keep pace with the rapidly growing faculty interest in pursuing external grant funding. The specific aims of the project are to: 1. Increase the capabilities of the OSP by hiring and training new staff and providing them with the competency- based training and professional development that includes training and building an infrastructure that supports continuing education in this area. 2. Establish new OSP services, policies, and procedures for the development and submission of applications and provide training and support to faculty in these new services, policies, and procedures; 3. Develop a faculty reward structure that emphasizes cost sharing and workload management to promote research and creative activity; 4. Expand collaborative research partnerships and funding opportunities for faculty and students, especially with Auburn University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 5. Offer students the opportunity to work with faculty and the OSP to acquire grant writing skills; and 6. Partner with the AUM Office of Diversity to offer scaffolded workshops in cultural competency for faculty to facilitate creating effective grant writing teams for grants targeted at PUIs. The SPAD grant would enable AUM to create an OSPR that would play an important role in fostering this new culture of research and scholarship, that would encourage grant-assisted faculty training and curriculum development, and help create new programs for research training and mentorship of underprivileged African- American students, who comprise 42% of our student population. The success of the project will be determined by measuring increases in faculty interactions with the OSP, in proposal submissions, in the creation of new research collaborations, in the expanded mentoring of student researchers, and in the volume of publications.