Meeting Date: 
December 8, 2017
Date: 
12/08/2017 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Location: 
109 Gilkey Hall
Event Description: 

A PDF of the agenda can be found here.

Agenda: 
  1. Associate Vice President for Research: Search Completed
  1. Strategic Planning
  • Come up with a list of actionable items for the short term and the long term
  • Lists of all cores and services
  • Open sessions of Research Office with faculty
  1. Setting up Review Panels
  • Advisory/review panels: Engineering, Bio sciences/Molecular Biology, etc.
  • Areas of research and how many members? Should the Research Council have any role? Should the Research Council review the reviews? How should the Research Council go about recommending proposals?
  1. Visibility of OSU: High Impact Seminars
  1. Regular Meetings
  1. Potential Revisions to the Standing Rules of the Research Council

Below is the current mandate (http://senate.oregonstate.edu/research-council):

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.