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 Celebration 2013 program

Research at Andrews Brochure

Summer 2012, Volume 3

Summer 2011, Volume 2

Fall 2010, Volume 1 

Faculty Activity Reports

Complete the Faculty Activity Report (FAR) using the scoring guidelines given. Be sure to collect the appropriate supporting documentation for each item reported. Review the FAR with your department chair. Either you or your chair should email the FAR (in Word format) directly to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, research@andrews.edu along with all supporting documentation as an attached PDF document. If you have nothing to report for this year, please send an email to research@andrews.edu with “FAR: Nothing to Report” in the subject line. The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship will audit your scores, and return the audited FAR to you. You will have at least one week to review the audited FAR and appeal scoring changes (by providing additional clarification or documentation) before final awards will be determined.

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 2013-14 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 Scholar (URS) awards and Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA), so long as they are doing student-led or student-collaboration research that will 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.
• 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.
• Further details are available in the following link for a tutorial on the Faculty Research Grant:
  Faculty Research Grant – Faculty Institute Presentation

Please use the Faculty Research Grant Application Form, and email your completed application to research@andrews.edu

Expedited renewal of a current 2012-13 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 2012-13 FRG for one year. 

Please use the Faculty Research Grant Renewal Form for renewal applications, and email your completed application to research@andrews.edu

Faculty Research Grant Application Form
Faculty Research Grant Renewal Form

Please click on the following link for a tutorial on the Faculty Research Grant
Faculty Institute Presentation