Research Council

12:30-2:30 PM for New Member Orientation
1:00 to 2:30 PM for continuing members

1. 12:30-1:00 – New Member Orientation

2. Associate Vice President for Research Search Update

3. Strategic Planning

• Continuation of discussions from the previous meeting
• Develop a list of actionable items for the short term and the long term

4. Potential Revisions to the Research Council Standing Rules

• Below is the current mandate; the Standing Rules are also online at http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/research/sr/index.html
• Please send your proposed revisions to Siva Kolluri ([email protected]) and Vickie Nunnemaker ([email protected]). Finalized revisions will be forwarded to Faculty senate for approval.

The Research Council establishes policies for matters pertaining to sponsored research activities. It recommends priorities for distribution of various internal funding programs and for external solicitations that require limited submissions from the institution. The Research Council also reviews proposals for Centers, Institutes, and Research Programs (CIP), and is advisory to the Vice President for Research on matters related to CIP.  The Council consists of fifteen Faculty members, preferably at least one from each college. The Administrator of the Research Office, or designee, shall be a non-voting, ex-officio member of the Council. The Chair shall be a Faculty member with immediate prior experience on the Council, appointed annually by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. The membership of the Research Council will adhere to the comprehensive conflict of interest policy of the Research Council.