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Examining the Administrator's Role in Increasing Faculty and Staff Involvement in Attracting Grants and External Resources

This 1.5 to 2-hour session is aimed at department chairs, deans, and other academic personnel who impact institutional atmosphere as it relates to the seeking of external support.

The objectives of the session include:

• Promoting an open discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of securing external resources for an academic program, department, college, or other entity
• Providing a framework to discuss/evaluate the administrator's current strategies for encouraging and evaluating faculty and staff involvement in the securing of external resources in the administrator's academic unit
• Increasing the administrator's knowledge of the current grants/contracts marketplace and those strategies that will provide the most return for the administrator's investment of university resources

The main topics covered in the session include:

• Overview of the Grants/Contracts Marketplace
• Grants and Contracts Procurement from the Grant Seeker's Point of View
• Grants and Contracts Procurement from the Administrator's Point of View
• How the Acquisition of External Resources Can Assist the Administrator in his or her own Performance Evaluation

Materials include several worksheets aimed at:

• Determining how well the participants' academic units meet the needs of their grant seekers
• Identifying the positive and negative aspects of procuring external resources and how this activity influences the participant's academic units and their universities as a whole
• Determining how the participants can enhance their existing strategies, and implement new strategies for increasing and improving grant/contract activity

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