March 16, 2016

KU’s Research Caliber:  strengthen skills and retain top performers

• Hosted Thursday Research Topics session on “Professional Development Opportunities in Research Administration” (30 attendees)

Pursue System Improvements:  implement tools that increase faculty and administrative efficiency; collaborate with KUMC where feasible

• Continued implementation process for ecrt (effort certification) system
• Held faculty focus group concerning ecrt implementation

KUCR Efficiency:  strengthen operations, processes, and overall effectiveness

• This project is complete, but progress will continue to be tracked.