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Any organization for research and research administration must incorporate the entire campus culture into its infrastructure. This culture will include both internal and external proposal and award systems. It will also include a strong sense of the institution’s mission and what the sponsored programs administrators do to advance it. Furthermore, research administrators must ensure that they are organized for flexible, efficient and non-duplicative activities that are usually time sensitive. They must be more service oriented that providing a policing role. The central sponsored programs office needs to be highly visible but neutral. It needs to satisfy these requirements so that faculty members will not hesitate to work with the office. If the ever growing importance of college and department level research administrators is present, the relationship between these units and the central office must be clearly laid out in terms of roles and responsibilities. Some of the key issues here are preparation of proposal budgets, editing proposals, signature authority, expenditures, and closeouts. Whatever the system that is developed, a team attitude must be instilled to maintain effective operations on a daily basis.
Original Contributor:
1 Pamela B. Whitlock, University of North Carolina at Wilmington: whitlock@uncw.edu
2 Julie Cole, Georgia Southern University: JCole@georgiasouthern.edu
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