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- promote the
sustainability of
existing major
scientific
research
facilities by
ensuring that
they have
optimum
support staff,
maintenance
and
upkeep, and
replacement
cycles
- develop a
coherent
university
strategy for
creating new
facilities, or
engaging in
major
renovations of
existing facilities
Revised
Address:
- Pressing unmet
- campus needs
with respect to
research
facilities,
equipment,
services and
personnel
and/or specific
needs
- for investment in
existing
facilities,
equipment,
services and
personnel;
- Succession
planning for key
support
personnel;
- Institutional
barriers to
establishing,
maintaining and
sustaining
common
equipment/core
user facilities
and services;
- Lack of clarity
regarding
allowable and
appropriate
methods of cost
accounting for
core user
facilities and
services;
- Improving web
sites associated
with common
equipment/core
user facilities
and services.
- ensure that
teaching
laboratories in
STEM
disciplines were
adequately
maintained and
updated
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Development of:
- A basic template or
business model for
operating research
facilities;
- A university strategy
for targeting
construction and
replacement of
major research
facilities; New
funding models to
enable users to
access the facilities.
- The costing firm of
Kennedy and
Associates has been
hired to conduct
analysis 5 core user
facilities (3 service
units, 1 laboratory,
and 1 major
equipment) and
develop guidance
for use in migrating
these and future
facilities to a core
user model;
- Relocated the
unused anechoic
chamber from
physics, where it is
tying up usable lab
space, to CEET,
where it can be used
by researchers in
CEET and CHHS;
- Developing a Core
Methods Service to
provide statistical,
methodological, and
other technical
support on research
grants, proposals,
and publications
- Colleges developed
plans for targeted use
of the strategic
planning funds, and
identified the courses
and students that
would benefit from the
improved facilities.
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- Increases in: efficiency in
utilization of research
facilities/services;
- Productivity in experimental
sciences;
- Grant support for
facility/service use; use of
university facilities by external
clients;
- Compliance with federal cost
accounting principles and
lower risk of audit findings;
- Efficiency in space allocations
for experimental sciences
- Funding of improvements in
teaching labs in CHHS, CLAS,
CEET
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Students
- Upgraded labes used by 3486 students
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