January 27, 2020

Attendees: Jerry Lin, Bryan Proksch, Anna Christensen, Yasuko Sato, Brenda Nichols, Beverly Kemp

Meeting called to order by Jerry Lin at 1:07pm

Dr. Lin: Thank you very much for coming over to our department for today's meeting. I would like to bring a new role to this committee. We are going to pave a way for Lamar as a research institution and move Lamar Research Administration forward to a more organized operation. Dr. Lin introduced the organizational structure of ORSPA to the Research Council members and shared the organizational chart.

I. Review and revision recommendations for Research Council composition in the faculty handbook.

1. University Research policy – we need to develop PI-friendly policy at Lamar. We will formulate the policy through discussion and input from all colleges and publish them on Lamar website after BOR approval.

II. Charge to Lamar Research Council and planning for future meetings. 

We will hold monthly meetings of this council to work towards offering better assistance to the faculty on campus. The Research Council is the point of contact for communicating research-related issues on campus and ORSPA will respond to the issues brought up by the Research Council. Now is a very good opportunity to advance Lamar University Research operation. Would like to accomplish the following in Spring 2020:

1. Define PI eligibility. 2. Formulate and implement IDC policy. 3. Discussion on ways to enhance research and scholarly work in all college include non-funded activities in literature and fine arts at Lamar.

 III. Eligibility of PI's and Co-PI's.

See attachment. When we have a faculty, member serve as a PI we usually refer to tenure tract professors. Certain departments and colleges have research people. There is much discussion regarding eligibility. We are trying to address, when the sponsor does not have a clear description for the PI then we have this document to refer to.

Dr. Proksch: Maybe change #3 to include faculty. Move department chair and dean their own bullet for approval.

Dr. Christensen: Maybe a reference to where students needs to go for grant submission and grant information.

Dr. Lin will edit the statement and the we can have a motion in our February meeting and then have approved by Board of Regents and eventually have this information on the website.

 IV. Roundtable discussion

Dr. Lin: Any additional items that we need to put into the agenda for the next meeting. We will discuss how we create revenue stream for the arts and fine arts in future meetings.

REG’s, do we still want the council to review the REG’s. 

Dr. Proksch: I think the entire program needs to be changed. Have you checked PIVOT for arts/fine arts? Music was relatively not there. Maybe 5 grants that would be applicable. IDC in the arts does not exist. 

Dr. Christensen: If the program changes, we need make sure to let our faculty members know of the change because they might write differently with a new design.

Dr. Lin: These are all great points and we will discuss them further in the meetings to come.

Meeting adjourned by Jerry Lin at 2:05pm