What Do We Need To Know To Get

What Do We Need To Know, To Get Where We Need To Go Betty Morgan, CRA, UNC Chapel Hill Lorrie Robbins, CRA, UNC Chapel Hill, a special thank you for contributing to the content.

What Do We Need To Know? • The Landscape of Research Administration • The University • Campus • Office of Research • The Sponsors

What Do We Need To Know, cont. ? • The Partners • Campus • PI/Faculty • Administrative Staff • Other Central Offices

• Office of Research • • • Accounting/Cash Management Industry Contracting Effort Reporting COI IACUC IRB Clinical Trials Export Control And so many more!

• The Sponsors • Federal • Non-Federal • Hybrid • Fed/Non-Fed • Multiple agencies

• Education/Knowledge/Skills • • • Educate, educate Memberships – SRA, NCURA, Webinars, Seminars, Conferences Read, read Stay in tune with campus, research offices, sponsors Find listservs, join groups CRA, Masters degree Be innovative Learn to work in the gray, think outside of the box Contribute!

To Get To Where We Need to Go! So, where is that and how do we get there?

• Helping Research Happen • Collaborating with Faculty/Post Docs/Students/Research Admin Staff • Educating • Finding opportunities • Partnering • Immunity to change in a constantly changing profession • We are not Processors or Admin Assts! • We must work and adapt in the Gray! • Stay up to date • Stay focused

• Stuck in the “that’s not the way we have always done it” disease • “That’s the Carolina Way” • “Old habits are hard to break” • Agility • Ability to manage competing priorities • Staying focused • Wearing multiple hats at once, and looking good in them! • Staying relevant in the industry • Seek knowledge • Education • Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

• Innovation • Put on “your best thoughts forward”! • Must not keep doing things the same way and expecting a different result-dare to break away! • Staying up to date • Dissemination of Information • New tools and technology • Resources • Education