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Laura Sefton on Searching for Grant Funding OpportunitiesBlog post to AEA365, a blog sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) dedicated to highlighting Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, and Lessons Learned for evaluators. The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.
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Overcoming the Challenges of Obtaining Funding by Working TogetherBreakout Session 2A: How do we find funding for our partnership programs that will support innovative partnership initiatives? This session will illustrate the approach of tapping into courses that are already offered by university partners and adapting those courses to be partnership-focused. We have found this approach to be highly successful for building capacity for grant writing within partnerships. Universities increasingly offer grant writing courses, yet these courses are often focused on teaching individual students the skills to write successful grants to support their own work. This session will show how such courses can be adapted to emphasize partnership approaches, to develop grant writing resources for partners, and to culminate in free grant writing workshops for the community. Such an approach strengthens the skill development of the students while at the same time disseminating the training widely throughout the community. The advantage of this approach is that it requires few additional resources while having the potential to build partnership capacity for successfully seeking funding and building programs that are sufficiently rigorous to meet the demands of funders. Examples from courses at UMass Lowell and UMaine will illustrate how this approach has been effectively implemented in many different contexts.
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The Challenge of Maintaining our Physician-Scientist WorkforceAs part of the mini-symposium entitled "The Challenge of Maintaining our Physician-Scientist Workforce," Dr. Flotte, who is Dean, Provost and Executive Deputy Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, discusses strategies for recruiting and promoting physician scientists in the face of demands to sustain institutional funding and grow the institution’s overall research reputation.
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Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendationsThe US research enterprise is under significant strain due to stagnant funding, an expanding workforce, and complex regulations that increase costs and slow the pace of research. In response, a number of groups have analyzed the problems and offered recommendations for resolving these issues. However, many of these recommendations lacked follow-up implementation, allowing the damage of stagnant funding and outdated policies to persist. Here, we analyze nine reports published since the beginning of 2012 and consolidate over 250 suggestions into eight consensus recommendations made by the majority of the reports. We then propose how to implement these consensus recommendations, and we identify critical issues, such as improving workforce diversity and stakeholder interactions, on which the community has yet to achieve consensus.
