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Friday, August 12, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
On the Role of Faculty in a Research University
Research-Driven Academic Growth and National Relevance of UP by Dr. Gisela P. Concepcion
Some key ideas:
Some key ideas:
Some key ideas:
- Research mentoring is important
- Being a faculty involves teaching, research, advocacy and extension work
- Publishing research results and patent applications is a top priority
- Submit papers to international journals for pre-review
- Levels of scientific activity:
- innovative, creative, trailblazing
- iterative, modifying science
- routine, protocol science
- Research in the Philippines must now move on to the molecular level
- Review Technology Transfer Bill
- Come up with a scientific advocacy
- The Dean shall provide
- Minimize administrative work of young faculty to be able to focus on research
- Every young faculty should have a major specialization (in his field) and a minor specialization (collaborative)
- An enabling environment must be present to be able to encourage research
- Procurement process of equipment for research must be revised
- Research must be aligned to public issues (flooding, climate change)
- Allocate 10-15 percent of MOOE for tests
- Be opportunistic
- Advocate the concept of "volunteerism" in research
- Conduct expectation settings for research: senior faculty, junior faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, administrative support
- Improve oral and written communication skills
Some key ideas:
- Review Republic Act 9500
- Develop "Centers of Excellence"
- Her main motivation for research is to develop her laboratory by obtaining funding to procure equipment
- There must be an industry partner to drive research in the academe
- Data gathered in research is the ticket to publications and research funding
- Professional fulfillment is one of the motivations for conducting research
- "Think big, start small, act now"
