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Learn how the Great Plains Network fosters collaboration among researchers through network connectivity and a centralized approach, creating a community that supports grant writing and proposal inclusion. Campus research offices engage with specialists to ensure individual researcher support and alignment with funding opportunities.
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Collaboration across the Great Plains Greg Monaco, Great Plains Network (GPN) Linda Roos, OARnet
Great Plains Network • Provide network connectivity • Shift focus to collaboration among researchers in GPN
Creating a People Network • Hire central coordinator • Identify research support individuals on campuses
What GPN is doing • Bi-weekly phone calls • Weekly digest • Conferences • Workshops on writing grants with an advanced networking component • Boiler plates for inclusion in research proposal
What the campuses do • Talk to individual researchers • Newspapers • Grant selection • Attend faculty meetings • Research Office
Collaboration Specialist Characteristics • Competence in some content area • Ability to cross organizational lines • Exercises personal influence