研究 and Sponsored 项目 任务

Vision Statement 2013 to 2018

In recognizing, 拥抱, and leveraging Lincoln University’s premier status as the oldest degree-granting Historically Black College and University, the Office of 研究 and Sponsored 项目 (ORSP) will provide transformational and transactional leadership and services, campus-wide, to garner resources that will 促进 and facilitate innovative opportunities for teaching, 研究, 学习, enhancements to the campus infrastructure, improvements to student support services, 有创意的 expression, and new knowledge, that will serve local, 区域, 国家, and global communities.

任务 Statement 2013 to 2018

In advancing our vision for empowerment and accountability to our valued stakeholders, ORSP will play the engaging role of a service-oriented unit that provides catalytic, 自信, 主管, and caring leadership to the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania community in the institutionalization of our status as an emerging 研究 institution.  As an “office of opportunities”, 研究 and Sponsored 项目 will develop, 促进, and continually support a campus culture of active sponsored 研究 engagement that will build and implement sound institutional capacity for competitive advantage in 国家 and inter国家 extramural funding sources. 

To this end, ORSP will accomplish the following:

• act as a resource for University stakeholders to empower faculty, 工作人员, and students in carrying out their scholarly, experimental, pedagogical, 有创意的, and organizational projects;
• provide oversight for the successful administration of sponsored programs– to include grants, 合同, and cooperative agreements;
• provide consultation services regarding 研究 and sponsored-program activities; and
• comply with federal, 状态, and University regulations and other appropriate guiding principles through a professionally supported relationship with our stakeholders. 

Our services will include the following:

• helping to move ideas into concepts;
• conducting prospect 研究 to align with concepts;
• identifying funding opportunities;
• assisting in the creation and strengthening of application materials for submission to external funding agencies;
• providing training programs for successful 研究 and sponsored-programs activities;
• ensuring  appropriate legal and ethical compliances;
• advancing best practices in effective post-award administration of funded projects.