March 18, 2015

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

• Held Thursday Research Topics (TRT) session on KU’s Implementation of the Uniform Guidance (59 attendees)
• Held quarterly grant coordinators meeting

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

• Held two Research Administration System Analysis meetings with IT

KUCR Efficiency:  strengthen operations, processes, and overall effectiveness

• Began process to transition all paper effort certifications (~38,000 documents) into ImageNow for transparency into compliance rate and reporting.