Note from the Editor | Renewed Focus We hope your summer was all you wished for and that you are preparing for the upcoming school year with renewed focus and energy. This month’s Catalyst is chockful of news and ideas to re-start your professional focus and to stir your creative juices. As...
Grant Accounting: What’s Wrong with a Checklist? A checklist or a list of basic questions can be a great tool for effective grant accounting and project management. A previous article in the Catalyst ( Alcaine & Calvo, 2021 ) explored the idea that grant accounting is two sides of the...
RA Career Paths | RAAAP-3 Survey to Focus on Career Paths Many who find themselves in a career in research administration didn’t start out in this field. This series will focus on the unique, and often winding, paths that led to a career in research administration. Do you have an interesting...
View from the Top | Eyes Towards NOLA and Beyond This truly is an exciting time. The world is opening once again and people are traveling, which is why the 2021 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA (October 23-27) is going to be a standout event. Registration is now open, so don’t delay, sign...
Professional Development and Advocating for it: What a Great Way to “Re-“start! What could be a better way to step-on with the new normal, than to attend the upcoming SRAI Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana? Over the past year and a half, opportunities for in-person professional...
Monthly Poll | Changes at the Office How many times have you heard colleagues say that they just fell into research administration? Have you said it about your own career beginnings? I know I have. I applied for a job and found a career. We asked you to share a bit about your education in...
Kudos Korner | Phil Cola SRA International members rock! As research management and administration professionals, they never stop improving, learning, achieving, or earning new heights of success. We love sharing good news and offering a well-deserved slap on the back for recent personal and...
Tiny Victories | Donnett Johnson In this year of so many challenges, tiny victories can almost seem like major accomplishments. The Catalyst wants to highlight your tiny victories in research administration and how you are using them to get through everything life has recently thrown at us....
Summary of the July Board of Directors Meeting The Board of Directors met in mid-July. Here is a peek behind the curtain. The Board of Directors met online during the weekend of July 16th and 17th. When the Board last met, COVID vaccines had just been approved and the monumental task of...
Pushing a Cart Up the Hill: Continuing Education in Research Administration How does one decide to enter this field, and further how does one determine whether advanced education, professional certification, and/or a terminal degree is required? Stephanie Blackmore pondered these same...
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