Mission statement

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS) seeks to promote excellence in research and creativity, and foster an attitude of scholarly inquiry within the community of faculty and students of Andrews University.

This office also provides administrative support for the Institutional Review Board

Research at Andrews Brochure

Summer 2011, Volume 2

Fall 2010, Volume 1 

Faculty Activity Reports

The Faculty Activity Report categories and process have been changed for the January 2012 Reports. Please complete the Faculty Activity Report (FAR) using the scoring guidelines given in FAR research categories below. Be sure to collect the appropriate supporting documentation for each item you report. Once you review the FAR with your department Chair, your Chair will email the FAR directly to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, research@andrews.edu, along with all supporting documentation. The FAR form should be emailed as a separate Word document only, although the supporting documentation may be scanned and emailed, or delivered by hand to AD322 or by campus mail (0355).

Faculty Research categories 
Faculty Activity Reports Form

Submission Timeline

Faculty Research Grant (FRG)

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship encourages all faculty to consider submitting a Faculty Research Grant application for the 2012-13 academic year.  Faculty may request up to $5000 per faculty member, which may be used for:

• Student labor (undergraduate and graduate).  Student labor may be used for support functions, such as secretarial work, literature searching, etc.  Additional funds may be available for student collaboration through Undergraduate Research Scholarships (URS), and Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA), so long as they are doing student-led or student-collaboration research that would result in their coauthoring the presented/published results.
• Travel for research purposes.  This includes travel for work with off-campus research collaborators and field-based research, but excludes travel for conference participation.
• Miscellaneous supplies and small equipment, under $2500. This includes computers that are research-dedicated, but excludes personal computers purchased for dual classroom teaching/research purposes.
• Allowance for hiring a contract teacher to cover one of your regularly scheduled classes (up to $2400), allowing for up to 3 credits of teaching release for research.  If you choose this option, justification must be included, explaining how the additional release time will be used to further your research program. Expedited renewal of a current 2011-12 FRG may be requested for a maximum amount of new funding of $3000 plus any remaining funding from the current grant, up to a total of $5000. This additional funding may be requested for a maximum of two years, after which a full grant application would need to be submitted for further funding. The Faculty Research Grant Renewal Form should also be used for requests to carry over funds from a current 2011-12 FRG for one year.
  
  Faculty Research Grant Application Form
  Faculty Research Grant Renewal Form