Office of Research & Graduate Education Mission:
The Office of Research and Graduate Education has overall leadership and oversight responsibilities for Chapman University’s research enterprises and graduate degree and professional programs. We support faculty and students throughout the life cycle of sponsored activities and contracts, as well as throughout student graduate studies and research. We seek to foster collaboration, interdisciplinary approaches, innovations, and demonstrated impact of Chapman’s academic, research, scholarship, and creative activity by supporting the quality and productivity of faculty, graduate students, and researchers during their time here at Chapman.
What do we do?
The Office of Research provides guidance and expertise in:
- Identifying funding opportunities.
- Proposal development including budget development.
- Federal, state, foundation, and university policies and submission processes.
- Negotiating award acceptance, including post-submission modifications such as budget modifications, narrative revisions, and other clarifications.
- Financial monitoring and oversight of sponsored activity funds in collaboration with PIs and departmental grant support staff.
- Contract negotiations in coordination with the Office of Legal Affairs as required for award approval.
- Observing mandatory compliance for research involving human subjects, animals, biosafety, export controls, research integrity and financial conflict of interest.
- Promoting student success and well-being across graduate programs.
- Raising the profile and recognition of Chapman graduate programs.
- Fostering collaboration between graduate programs and disciplines.
- Ensuring consistency of policies across graduate and professional programs.
- Ensuring comprehensive approaches to graduate and professional student recruitment, retention, progression, and completion.
- Helping graduate and professional programs to reduce costs of the administration and delivery.
- Collecting and analyzing data to support university decisions about graduate and professional programs.
We are Hiring!
An internal call to Chapman personnel for applications for the position of Associate Vice President for Graduate Education is now open.
Applications should include an updated vitae and a cover letter describing your vision for the future of the Graduate Education Department. All materials should be submitted to Marie-Gabrielle Brooks mabrooks@chapman.edu by noon on Monday, April 22, 2024.
Finalists will be invited to offer campus presentations in early May. Job description and details follow
