STATE OF RESEARCH AFFAIRS2021-2022

INTRODUCTIONS

• Chad Brooks – Assoc. Provost for Research• Tim Atkinson –Director, ORSP & OSRI• Kelly Pitts – Grant Specialist, ORSP• Jacklyn Milam – Grants Accountant, ORSP• Stefan Woltmann – IACUC Chair• Harry Young – IRB Chair

APR

ORSP

OSRI

INTRODUCTIONS

1. PHILOSOPHIES2. UPDATES & AWARENESS3. APSU’s SCHOLARLY ENVIRONMENT4. STUDENT IMPACTS5. FUTURE INITIATIVES

AGENDA

PHILOSOPHIES

Associate Provost for Research

Office of Research & Sponsored Programs

ORSP is in the job of helping students, faculty, and staff obtain external funding.

Director for Student Research & Innovation

OSRI’s mission is to support the incorporation of scholarly activities/training...as a means to engage, retain, and promote students and their success.

I am in the job of helping students, faculty, and staff expand their scholarly potential.

Research CouncilChargeThe Research Council (RC) monitors the research environment of APSU and deliberates additions and amendments to policies/regulations/guidelines impacting research activities and/or APSU employees engaged in research. The RC may initiate studies that are concerned with the welfare of research and advises the University in matters concerning research. The RC may engage in additional responsibilities as determined by the RC chairperson.

UPDATES

So, what are a few methods for determining success in research/scholarly activities?

Yes, this is rhetorical…

UPDATES

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021CEDE 9 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 0COAL 6 12 3 3 3 1 4 3 0COB 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0COBHS 15 17 10 3 3 3 6 3 0COE 13 11 15 10 14 6 2 3 8COSTEM 71 76 71 58 32 46 67 49 32Library 2 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0Admin 13 21 15 13 10 13 14 24 16Aca. Affairs 3 6 7 3 3 1 1 3 6STPM 3 1 4 0 2 2 4 1 0

135 148 131 93 71 73 99 86 62

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CEDE COAL COB COBHS COE COSTEM Library Admin Aca. Affairs STPM

Total Amount of Grants applied for each year based on Academic CollegeGrant Activities by College

UPDATES

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021CEDE 1,258,693$ 64,602$ 65,000$ 73,168$ 164,000$ -$ -$ -$ -$ COAL -$ 21,200$ -$ 4,000$ -$ -$ -$ 10,000$ -$ COB -$ -$ -$ -$ 2,500$ -$ -$ -$ -$ COBHS 80,516$ 77,592$ 121,251$ 41,420$ 43,930$ 38,500$ 20,791$ 165,500$ 150,000$ COE 304,000$ 320,755$ 252,281$ 203,574$ 369,652$ 287,107$ 426,080$ 195,020$ 1,086,214$ COSTEM 1,056,002$ 1,052,706$ 1,389,012$ 1,270,721$ 1,309,899$ 2,111,336$ 1,460,809$ 1,615,845$ 1,593,118$ Library 1,200$ -$ 5,350$ 750$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ Admin 676,655$ 1,740,654$ 1,057,450$ 986,181$ 955,411$ 3,897,058$ 1,499,032$ 1,922,980$ 2,335,422$ Acad. Aff 26,750$ 4,250$ 7,500$ 20,000$ 2,107,320$ -$ 2,162,384$ 3,919,963$ 2,363,861$ STPM 75,000$ -$ 2,500$ -$ 25,000$ 79,954$ 157,164$ 108,404$ 208$

3,478,816$ 3,281,759$ 2,900,344$ 2,599,814$ 4,977,712$ 6,413,955$ 5,726,260$ 7,937,711$ 7,528,823$

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Total Amount funded per Academic College that includes all $ amounts in the Fiscal Year Dollars to Academic Colleges

UPDATES

Supporting Faculty

• New faculty orientation• Workshops• Research Support Grants (RSG)• New faculty research startup packages• Policy 2:059 Sponsored Research Incentive Program• Research Council

RSG solicitationRSG due date

RSG award date

June30

Sep6Sep24

Dec/Jan

Research CouncilCOLLEGE MEMBERSHIP College DepartmentAndrea Spofford spofforda@apsu.edu CoAL Languages and Literaturevacant CoALJalesa Parks ParksJ@apsu.edu CoAL Languages and LiteraturePilisik Choi ChoiP@apsu.edu CoB ManagementElif Demiral Saglam demiralsaglame@apsu.edu CoB AccountingDebra Wilson wilsondr@apsu.edu CoBHS NursingHarry Young Youngh@apsu.edu CoBHS PoliSciCharles (Barrie) Woods woodsc@apsu.edu CoBHS Psyvacant CoEAmy Tondreau TondreauA@apsu.edu CoE CoEJoanna Zimmerle zimmerlej@apsu.edu COE COEStefan Woltmann woltmanns@apsu.edu CoSTEM BiologyRoman Holovchak holovchakr@apsu.edu CoSTEM Physicsvacant CoSTEMEllen Brown BrownE@apsu.edu LIB LibraryTim Atkinson AtkinsonT@apsu.edu OSRP, DirectorTim Atkinson OSRI, DirectorFACULTY SENATE REPNotashia Crenshaw-Williams Crenshawn@apsu.edu Faculty Senate Social Work

Office of Student Research and Innovation• Capturing student success stories to:• 1) enhance recruitment • 2) encourage students• 3) guideposts for other students

• Three-Minute-Scholarly-Activity Video (next slide)• Capturing student data for HIPs (next-next slides)• Student Support Money (next-3x slide) • Professional Development (next-4x slide)

Three-Minute-Scholarly-Activity Video

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Funding through OSRI• Depending on COVID! Student Travel Award grants: highly

competitive mini-grants for up to $1,000 (international travel) and $750 for domestic travel. First come!

• Undergraduate Research Enrichment Funding grants: approximately 10 projects are funded up to $3,000 to support research projects conducted by undergraduates with faculty mentor support. (~end of Sept)

• Graduate Student Research Support grants: approximately 10 projects are funded up to $1,000 to support research projects Capturing student data for HIPs. (~end of Sept)

Professional Development at OSRI

FUTURE PROJECTS/DIRECTIONS

• RC focus on the working environment supporting research activities• Measuring research/scholarly activity of students• Allocating/Reallocating $ for better faculty research startup packages• Department/college accounts that can accrue $ for future spending• Rethinking GA workloads…hybrid GTA/GRAs• Designing out-of-state/international student scholarships • (FYI, OOS tuition = ~81% UG and ~60% GR increase in tuition…so, there is room)

• Others???…don’t be shy…let us know!

APSU’s FUTURE…• New-ish President• New-ish Provost• Each year, new students• Soon, new Strategic Plan• Soon, new Academic Affairs Strategic Plan

So, try “Google’ing” whatever words you would hope would be connected to APSU.

For example, “APSU research”….

What do you hope to see?

THANK YOU