Research Administration (SPARCS)

Subcommittees

ERA Systems: The university and sponsors are increasingly utilizing electronic systems for business transactions. This subcommittee will review university research administration ERA systems as well as ERA at the college and department levels. Subcommittee will make recommendations to the Executive Committee on enhancements and the potential for sharing success stories with college/department internal systems. Subcommittee will also work with faculty and research administration staff to get end user feedback.

Training: There is an ongoing need to provide new employee and continuing training/awareness sessions on pre and post award research administration. This subcommittee will assess training at all colleges for both faculty and research administrative staff, to determine what is needed, where the successes are and how to translate this information into improved and consistent training across the university.

Customer Service: The research administration community serves customers at multiple levels. In order to maintain continued improvements, this subcommittee will review interactions amongst ourselves, faculty, administration, and sponsors and identify best practices of communication that exhibit excellent customer service from internal and external sources.