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NCURA Peer Review
During the fall of 2020, 一个由来自全国各地经验丰富的研究管理人员组成的NCURA“同行评审”团队, conducted a series of interviews with over 100 faculty, research staff, institute centers/directors and administrators. As a result of this endeavor, 审查小组向澳门新葡新京官方的领导层提供了澳门官方老葡京研究支持和外部资助项目的反馈，并分享了澳门新葡新京官方在寻求改善研究支持和管理时可能考虑的建议和国家最佳实践. 审稿人准备了一份114页的报告，其中包括140多项建议，从需要大量机构投资的大型项目(例如.e., “Fill current vacancies; assess long term staffing needs”) to others that are quick fixes (“post the subaward matrix to the ORSP website”).
The full report is posted here for you to access (linked here) and a summary of the identified areas of improvement, recommendations and planned response are copied below.
We thank everyone who participated in this process.
| Priority Area | Recommendations | Initial planned response/action |
|---|---|---|
| ORSP Staffing | Prioritize central staffing and resources - Prioritize staffing centrally; Identify short, medium and long term staffing needs to support research/externally funded priorities; prepare a salary study to identify appropriate salary levels for the staff within ORSP to ensure competitive salaries and benefits are provided in relation to the Boston area. | 制定招聘计划，并立即和长期实施 |
| Unit Staffing and Structure | Prioritize unit resources and roles, responsibilities and oversight. 制定协调整个校园研究管理的框架. Building on this framework, evaluate research administrators across the university in relation to titles, functions, 确保部门管理者得到适当的监督，并从公平的角度负责研究管理矩阵中的活动——如果不是重新评估和改变结构的话. Require participation of their research personnel for scheduled training and networking opportunities; ensure full support for researchers. | ORSP/HR project evaluating unit resources |
| Regular messaging on the importance and expectation for research | 研究任务的沟通-校长和教务长将提供明确和定期的信息，说明澳门新葡新京官方研究的重要性和期望. The VPR and Deans will implement regular messaging on the role of research, as appropriate to each discipline and faculty member. | Plan being developed |
| Research Development | Workshops; Training; Identification of funding opportunities; Professional Development; Increase seed funding and incentives - explore, with faculty input, the range and type of focused workshops that would be beneficial. 应考虑简短的演讲(30-50分钟)和演讲者的资格. Collaboration with the Office of Faculty Development will be beneficial; developing a year-long plan for offering workshops and such a plan should demonstrate regularity and consistency in key offerings; identify areas of faculty interest for which there are current federal funding opportunities and explore planning workshops focusing on these areas. | With additional pre-award staffing, this can be assigned and implemented. |
| Kuali | Prioritize Kuali implementation; Critical assessment of Kuali - Continue to prioritize implementation of Kuali Research. Given the size and complexity of the research enterprise, managing proposal development and submission by email, and manually keying in awards is a big challenge for ORSP. Kuali Research的实施将减少人工录入数据的数量，节省工作人员的时间，减少错误，并将研究合规功能与奖励信息联系起来. Ensure long-term plan for supporting any IT related needs that arise after implementation; Critically assess the Kuali Research system’s ability to collect key data that reflects research activity metrics. 鉴于澳门新葡新京官方对研究的日益关注，这将变得至关重要. | In process; initial launch slated for September, 2021 |
| Financial management | Establish expectations to help faculty fiscally manage their projects; provide reports and training - establish standard business practices to help faculty fiscally manage their projects (and identify any central or unit staff responsible); define who holds responsibility for training in the use of Summit and implement training regularly for existing and new users; provide faculty regular accurate grant reporting from PeopleSoft or Summit, 包括项目经理和其他协助奖后管理的员工的烧钱率. | 视加强协调程序和必要的ORSP中央人员配备而定, unit staffing and identified and supervised roles and responsibilities. |
| Reporting | Needs assessment for data reporting; develop and implement key metrics; Monthly reporting; reporting to PIs- burn rates. Collaborate with the colleges, 中心和研究所评估需求，确定定期数据报告的范围和深度. Develop a system for tracking and reporting key performance metrics; push out sponsored programs activity reports monthly to the Deans, 主任和领导保持研究活动的可见性，并允许关键的学术领导认识到目前正在进行的活动. | 取决于改进中央人员配置和VPR报告所有权的实施情况. |
| Faculty | 创建教师咨询委员会——组建一个由资深研究活跃教师组成的研究活跃教师咨询委员会. 这将使受政策影响的小组能够直接提供额外的教员意见, procedures, and practices related to the research enterprise. 这个小组可以提出各种问题，影响他们寻求资金和管理资金的能力. | To be launched in September 2021 |