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Application of the National Academies’ Recommendations in the Publication “Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation’s Prosperity and Security” to a Division within a Research University
(2017)
In the fall of 2015, the Division of Nuclear Medicine (“Division”), a twelve million dollar research division at an institution of higher education (IHE) (“Institution”), was in administrative shambles, and lacked many ...
Pre-Award Research Administration Infrastructure: Current Practices and Future Directions
(2017-08)
Competition for federal research funding is increasing as federal funds allotted for research lag behind the growing demand. Reducing administrative burdens on research faculty would allow more time for faculty to conduct ...
Academic-Corporate Relations at a Research University: Options for Engagement Practices and Organization
(2017)
Universities engage with corporations to pursue their missions in research, teaching, and public service. In recent years, corporations have evolved their expectations for university relations from primarily philanthropic ...
Considerations for Reliance on Single Institutional Review Boards
(2017-12)
The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network has trialed several versions of the NIH mandated single IRB model in hopes to find the most efficient model. Study startup milestones were measured over four trials ...
An Analysis of Academic Research Administration Central Office Structures
(2017-12)
The purpose of this Capstone Project was to assess academic research office structures. A descriptive and qualitative research method was used in the process of conducting a literature review and the analysis of survey ...
The Infrastructure of Research Administration at the RAND Corporation: A Case Study of The Social and Economic Policy Units
(2017-08)
In 2014, the Social and Economic Policy Units (or research units) at the RAND Corporation went through centralization which created new job titles and new job descriptions for research administrators, allowed research units ...