{"id":227,"date":"2021-07-13T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/provost\/?p=227"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:30:00","slug":"3-2-faculty-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/provost\/3-2-faculty-research\/","title":{"rendered":"3.2 Faculty Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Responsible Administrator:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Office of the Provost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Date of Last Review:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0June 25, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research, creative scholarship, and other scholarly activities are essential functions of a comprehensive university\u2014vital in the professional life of the professor and important in the\u00a0 education of students.\u00a0 Research and creative scholarship play important roles in considerations for faculty tenure, promotion, and salary allocation.\u00a0 The Institutional Review Board should review research involving human subjects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><b>University Support of Research\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The university provides the use of library space and materials, including efficient interlibrary loan services and digital resources for faculty and student research.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It provides office space, secretarial help, and laboratory facilities and equipment through\u00a0 the academic department\/school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate students and undergraduate and graduate assistants are available in some disciplines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Selective reassigned time may be arranged to allow a high level of research productivity, with the approval of the department\/school chair and dean.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Release from all teaching assignments during the summer terms provides opportunity for full-time research.\u00a0 Funds for research may be obtained through research grants from\u00a0 outside sources or through the ACU Research Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Office for Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) provides assistance in the\u00a0 preparation of research grant proposals to outside funding agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">College and departmental\/school budgets, in some cases, provide support for faculty and student research.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University research funds are available through application to the Research Council.\u00a0 Application forms and instructions and deadlines may be obtained from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn01.acu.edu\/community\/offices\/academic\/orsp\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Research and Sponsored Programs<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Research Council <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Office of the Provost and the Research Council have the responsibility for establishing\u00a0 guidelines for allocation of institutional research funds.\u00a0 Each full-time faculty member is eligible to submit to the Research Council a proposal for research or creative activity and a request for financial support. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn01.acu.edu\/community\/offices\/academic\/orsp\/internal-grants\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal grant opportunities<\/a> are available on the ORSP 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