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The Practice of Research Administration and Management Program Certificate
About PRAM
The Practice of Research Administration and Management certificate provides intermediate level exploration of many of the key areas of research administration, including leadership development, research integrity, financial management, faculty development, regulatory compliance and the role of the research administrator. Its curriculum includes one workshop, five required sessions and two elective sessions.
PRAM Certificate Course Requirements
PRAM is comprised of one workshop, five required sessions and two elective sessions. The required courses are listed below; the electives may vary from meeting-to-meeting.
Required Workshop (must take one)
- Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
- 2 CFR Part 220: Developing the F&A Rate
- It's About the Money: Budgets, Costing OMB and Sponsor Guidelines
Required Sessions (five sessions; must take one in each category)
1. Financial Management
- 2 CFR Part 220: An Introduction to the Contents and Format
- Clinical Trials Budget Negotiation
- Financial Reporting
2. Regulatory Agency Update
- ORI Update
- OMB Update: The Latest in Grants Management
- OHRP Update
- OLAW Update
3. Faculty Development
- The Research Administrator as Change Agent
- More Paper Out the Door: Ten Inexpensive Ways to Stimulate Proposal Development
4. Funding Agency Update
- Foundations
- CDC Update
- NIH Update
- NSF Update
- NIH Update
5. Leadership
- Creating an Effective Leadership Development Plan
- Creating a Strategic Plan and Vision to Make It Happen
- Engaged Management
- Leadership Skills
- Management Principles
Elective Courses (Must take two)
The elective courses will vary meeting-to-meeting.
About the Certificate Tracking Booklet
The tracking booklet allows members to easily record their progress. Obtain a stamp at the conclusion of each workshop or session. Once all coursework has been completed turn in your documentation to the Registration Desk at the meeting or e-mail it to Certificates@srainternational.org to receive your certificate of completion. If you attended a workshop or session at a previous SRA meeting, list the meeting on the line next to the course. SRA staff will verify your attendance at previous meetings. The blank lines under electives are for future meetings where new sessions may be held.
Courses given over the past three years (Fall 2009 - Fall 2012)
2012 Annual Meeting - Orlando, FL
Click here for curriculum. (Not in full.)
2012 Western/Northeast Section Meeting - San Francisco, CA
Workshop
It's About the Money
Modifications to Conflict of Interest Regulations
How to Negotiate and Utilize Master Clinical Trial Agreement
Required Sessions
1. Financial Management
Fostering a Team Approach to Cost Sharing
After the Award: Re-budgeting and Cost Transfers
2. Regulatory Agency Update
I-Ah…What? The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
From ARRA to FFATA to DATA to Grants Account: Federal Reporting Requirements
3. Faculty Development
Using Research and Business Metrics for Facilities and Faculty Reporting and Planning
Designing and Implementing Regional Services to Enhance Faculty Research Support
4. Funding Agency Update
NSF Update
NIH Update
5. Leadership
Case Studies in Research Ethics: A Historical Perspective
Planting Seeds and Dropping Breadcrumbs: Leading Change in Your Institution
Leadership, Really? Or Is It Management With a New Title?
Ethical Research Yields Better Science
Electives
Generational Dynamics in the Workplace
If Publications are the Coin of the Realm, Data is the Gold
Service Centers in Action
From the Ground Up… Building a Viable Hospital-Based Clinical Trials Program
Henrietta Lacks: A Discussion about Research Ethics and Social Responsibility
How to Make NIH Peer Review Work For You
How to Build a Successful Research Compliance Audit Team
RCR for Research Administrators
Sub-contracting and Sub-recipient Monitoring
FAR, FAR Away with the Federal Acquisition Regulations
2011 Annual Meeting - Montréal, Canada
Workshop
It's About the Money
Required Sessions
National Science Foundation (NSF) Update
Overview of 2 CFR 220
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Update
Electives
Funding Mechanisms and the Pitfalls Associated with Each
Key Management Metrics: Using a Balanced Scorecard for Research Performance Monitoring
Effective Budgeting and Contract Negotiations for Clinical Trials
How to Prepare for a Federal Audit
Conflict of Interest and Ethics
Research Integrity: The Institutional Perspective
DoD Research and Public Health Surveillance: Challenges in the International Setting, What are the Issues and What to Do About Them?
Multi-Generational Workforce Dynamics
Helpful Gatekeepers: Positive Management of the Limited Submission Process
A FAR Clause Database: Managing and Negotiating FAR Clauses Based on Historical Decision-making OR "Have We Ever Agreed to This Before?"
Service Center Operations: Changing Regulations and Changing Practices
An Update on National Audits of Research, including ARRA, Administrative and Clerical Costs and Others
BioBanking Basics: An Overview of Current Legal and Compliance Issues Related to Human Specimens Collected in Research
The Role of Policy: Creating and Supporting Expectations for Ethical Governance
Mentoring Basics
Benchmarking in Research Administration and the Efficiencies of Open International Research Data Standards
2 CFR Part 230 (OMB A122) - An Overview
A Back to the Basics Global Approach to Nuremburg, Helsinki, Belmont and the Road to Regulations and Practice
Beyond the Embryo: Understanding Ethical and Policy Issues in Stem Cell Research
The Lab: Interactive Movie on Avoiding Research Misconduct, Part I
Institutional Research Planning: Supporting a Culture of Research Excellence in a Time of Dynamic Change
Impact on the Bottom Line: Preparing a Research Profit and Loss Statement and Analyzing the Performance of Your University's Research Enterprise
Data Acquisition, Management, Ownership and Sharing
Enhancing a Culture of Research Integrity at the University of British Columbia
The Lab: Interactive Movie on Avoiding Research Misconduct, Part II
Emerging Role of Research Administrators Within the Culture of Research, a UK Perspective; Challenges and Solutions
After the Award: Rebudgeting and Cost Transfers
RCR for Research Administrators
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Research Administrators
Successful Financial Monitoring of Sponsored Projects
Authorship: Role of Institutional Guidelines and RCR Training for International Collaborations
Navigating the NIH Grants Policy Statement - Guidance for Foreign Institutions
The Rick Hansen Institute: Lessons Learned from Developing a National Registry into an International Clinical Research Network
European Union Research Programme Fundamentals
Sub-contracting and Sub-recipient Monitoring - Best Practices
Effort Reporting at Academic Medical Centers
International Efforts to Combat Research Misconduct
National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General: Who We Are. What We Do.
Combined International Health Research Funding Opportunities: National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Medical Research Council UK
Motivating Faculty and Maximizing Resources: The Sisyphean Task for PUI Research Administrators
Working with an Inexperienced Collaborator: They Want to Do What
Key Considerations and Lessons Learned When Implementing Compliant Research Billing Practice in a Large Academic Medical Center
Recent Developments in U.S. Export Controls
Case Studies in Research Misconduct: A Historical Perspective on Ethics
Mentoring as Idealized Influence and Individualized Consideration in Leadership: A Perspective on Ethics and Transformational Leadership
The Role of Sponsored Program Offices in Civic Engagement
Managing Advanced Compliance Issues with Sub-contracts
Faculty Consulting: Institutional Policies, Intellectual Property, Private Practice Plans and the Impact of Stanford vs. Roche
Troubled Waters: Navigating Financial Conflict of Interest
The Ethical Principle of Justice and Community Participation in Research
2011 WE/MW - Long Beach, CA
Workshop
It's All About the Money
2 CFR Part 220
2 CFR Part 230
Required Sessions
1. Financial Management
Fostering a Team Approach to Cost Sharing: A Pre and Post-Award Perspective
Building a Basic Grant Budget
Effort Reporting for Higher Education
2. Regulatory Agency Update
Financial Conflict of Interest
Creating Integrity in the Research Community
Compliance Case Studies
Research.gov
3. Faculty Development
Writing Goals, Hypotheses and Specific Aims
Pre-Award Electronic Research Administration
Building a Basic Grant Budget
More Paper out the Door; Ten Inexpensive Way to Stimulate Proposal Development
4. Funding Agency Update
NSF Update
Washington Update
NIH Update
5. Leadership
Leadership Toolbox
Organizing a Sponsored Research Office at a New Institution
Mentoring - Past and Present
Electives
Financial Issues for Cost Reimbursement and Fixed Price Agreements
RCR Update - An Agency/Institution Perspective
Seven Easy Questions that Guarantee Proposal Success
NIH Short Form - What We've Learned So Far
Multi Institutional Collaboration: Considerations, Protocol and Tools for the Research Administrator
Indirect Cost Rates: A Nonprofit Perspective
Gifts, Grants, and Contracts: Sub-recipients and Vendors - Making Sense of it All
Culture Clash or Collaboration
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Implementation: New Federal Sub-Award and Sub-Contract Reporting Requirements
Grant Development for the Research Administrator
Pre-Award Preparation for Post-Award Compliance
Stimulating Research Activity and Grant Applications in a University and an Integrated
Health Care Delivery System
Demystifying the U.S. Department of Education
2011 SO/NE - New Orleans, LA
Workshop
Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
Required Sessions
2. Regulatory Agency Update
Research.gov
3. Faculty Development
Pre-Award Electronic Research Administration
More Paper out the Door; Ten Inexpensive Way to Stimulate Proposal Development
The Research Administrator as Change Agent
4. Funding Agency Update
NSF Update
Washington Update
NIH Update
5. Leadership
Creating a Strategic Plan and the Vision to Make it Happen
2010 WE/SO - Tucson, AZ
Workshop
Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
It's About the Money: budgets, Costing OMB and Sponsor Guidelines
Required Sessions
1. Financial Management
2 CFR Part 220: An Introduction to the Contents and Format
2. Regulatory Agency Update
Effective Compliance Programs: Creating Integrity in the Research Community
3. Faculty Development
The Research Administrator as Change Agent
4. Funding Agency Update
NIH Update
5. Leadership
Creating an Effective Leadership Development Plan
Electives
Practicing Servant Leadership in Research Administration
Preparing for Conducting and Reporting Compliance Investigations
Prior Approval, Expanded Authorities, and Rebudgets… Oh My!
Transferring Assets, Equipment, Property and Data
Working with Laboratories and other Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
2010 Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
Workshop
Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
Required Sessions
3. Faculty Development
More Paper Out the Door: Ten Inexpensive Ways to Stimulate Proposal Development
4. Funding Agency Update
NIH Update
NSF Update
Electives
Establishing Authorship Agreements in Research Collaborations: Charting a Pathway to Success
Sub-contracting and Sub-recipient Monitoring
When It's All Screwed-Up - Strategies for Sorting Out Project Administration Gone Awry
What Goes on During Grant and Contract Negotiations
RCR for Research Administrators
ARRA - A Year Later
Working in Teams - It's a Team Effort
Research Misconduct - Dark Times in the Ivory Tower
Mentoring - from Top to Bottom
Leadership: Building Teams and Empowering Staff
The Increasing Importance of Conflicts in the Research Regulatory Landscape
Planting Seeds and Dropping Breadcrumbs
Research Administration Leadership in International Ethics Education
RCR Best Practices
Intercultural Communication in Research Administration
Research Integrity: The Institutional Perspective
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
2009 Annual Meeting - Seattle, WA
Workshop
Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
It's About the Money: budgets, Costing OMB and Sponsor Guidelines
Required Sessions
1. Financial Management
Clinical Trials Budget Negotiation
2. Regulatory Agency Update
ORI Update
OHRP Update
OLAW Update
4. Funding Agency Update
NIH Update
NSF Update
Electives
Challenges Facing Investigators
Competitive Advantage
Financial Issues for Cost Reimbursement
Grappling with A-133
Integrity in International Research Collaboration
New Research Faculty
New Roles for Research Administrators in a Globalized Research World
Nonprofit Cost Principals
Pre-Award Preparation for Post-Award Compliance
Promoting Integrity in the Research Enterprise
Sub-contracting and Sub-recipient Monitoring
Succession Planning
The Biggest Winner
The Mystery of Service Centers
Top Ten Tough Things
Transformational Leadership
Translational Research
Unamanageable Conflicts of Interest
Utilization and Implementation of a Clinical Trial Management System
2008 Annual Meeting - National Harbor, MD
Workshop
Leader of the Future: Developing Your Potential in Today's Competitive Workplace
2 CFR Part 220: Developing the F&A Rate
It's About the Money: budgets, Costing OMB and Sponsor Guidelines
Required Sessions
1. Financial Management
2 CFR Part 220: An Introduction to the Contents and Format
2. Regulatory Agency Update
OMB Update: The Latest in Grants Management - note: Tran known to not show up
OHRP Update
OLAW Update
Military/Navy Research: A Translational Resource for Non-Military Medical Needs
3. Faculty Development
More Paper Out the Door: Ten Inexpensive Ways to Stimulate Proposal Development
4. Funding Agency Update
CDC Update
NIH Update
NSF Update
5. Leadership
Creating an Effective Leadership Development Plan
Electives
Ask NIH
Being Seen and Heard
Building Research Capacity from the Group Up: The UOIT Experience
Builiding Research Cultures in New Universities/PUIs
Clinical Research Billing - Issues and Infrastructure
Clinical Trials: Rules and More Rules
Conducting Research Integrity in a New Ballpark: Mentoring Principles and the Service of the Research Ethics Counselor
Developing and Implementing an Effective Compliance Program
Direct Charging of Normally Indirect Costs
Establishing Authorship Agreements in Research Collaborations: Charting a Pathway to Success
F&A Proposals/Rates: What Every University Administrator Should Know
FDA Regulatory Processes: Drug Approvals in Animal Research
Grants.gov Update
Introduction to Open Access Publishing for Research Administrators and Managers
Managing Foreign Sub-Awards
Mentoring Revisited
Multi-Component Strategies to Enhance Faculty Success in Grant Submissions
NEH Update
NICHD - NIH Extramural Associates Program
Peer Review, Publications and Responsible Authorship: Research Administration Leadership in Academics and Scholarship
Pre-Award Preparation for Post-Award Compliance
Research Administration, Leadership Roles in a Service Oriented Profession
Synergize - Creating Effective Teams and Meetings
The Power Problematic in Research and it's Administration - Reflections and Steps Toward the Experience of Shared Transformative Leadership
Through the Looking Glass: Who we are and What we do as Research Administrators
Two Peas in a Pod: Post Award Accounting and Divisions Working Side by Side to Monitor Spending on Sponsored Projects
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