Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3342 - Kent State University
Chapter 3342-2 - University Constitution, Policies and Bylaws
Section 3342-2-03.2 - Administrative policy and procedures regarding academic administrative structures: institutes
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3342-2-03.2
Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A) Purpose. The university recognizes and designates several types of academic administrative structures that serve to facilitate its academic mission. Institutes created under this policy provide an organizational identity to selected programs and participating faculty, staff and students and supplement and complement the mission of academic units. However, institutes shall not serve as the site of primary academic appointments for faculty nor shall they offer any academic degree or certificate.
(B) Definitions.
(1)
Institute. An
academic administrative structure that facilitates and administers
comprehensive multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research, education and
service. While institutes may focus primarily on research and scholarship, they
can also provide an organizational identity to cross-campus education and
service programs and participating faculty, staff and students and, by doing
so, supplement, complement and bridge the individual missions of multiple
academic departments, schools and colleges.
(2)
Multi-disciplinary - activities that draw on knowledge from
different disciplines.
(3)
Inter-disciplinary - activities that depend on the
intersection and synergies between different disciplines.
(C) Implementation
(1)
An institute may only be created to facilitate
comprehensive multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research, education and
service on a major problem or on a cluster of significant related topics or
issues. The topics or issues that provide the focus for the institute shall
involve multiple academic units and incorporate a university-wide
perspective.
(2)
An institute must serve all three of the following
multi-mission criteria in its activities: research, education and
service.
(3)
An institute shall be established or eliminated by the
board of trustees upon the recommendation of the president, provost, vice
president for research and sponsored programs, educational policies council and
faculty senate. Prior to recommending a substantial modification, the
president, provost and vice president for research and sponsored programs shall
consider the recommendations of the curricular and governance bodies deemed
appropriate through consultation with the faculty senate chair. The provost, in
consultation with the vice president for research and sponsored programs, shall
be responsible for maintaining and communicating the format, process and
minimum requirements for such recommendation.
(4)
The provost, in
consultation with the vice president for research and sponsored programs, may
establish a research initiative as an initial structure to test the viability
of potential institute, prior to recommending the establishment of an
institute.
(5)
A director shall serve as the administrator for an
institute and shall be appointed by the provost in consultation with the vice
president for research and sponsored programs. The director shall be
responsible for filing an annual report with the provost and vice president for
research and sponsored programs. The specific requirements addressed by the
annual report shall be established by the provost in consultation with the vice
president for research and sponsored programs.
(6)
Institutes shall
adhere to operational procedures established and maintained by the vice
president for research and sponsored programs.
(D) Review procedures for institutes.
(1)
Unless an exception is requested by the director and
approved by the provost in consultation with the vice president for research
and sponsored programs, all institutes will be reviewed every five years. The
provost, in consultation with the vice president for research and sponsored
programs, shall be responsible for maintaining and communicating the format,
process and minimum requirements for such review.
(2)
Each review will
conclude with a recommendation to the provost and vice president for research
and sponsored programs to continue, modify, or abolish the structure of the
institute. In addition to the results of any review conducted, an institute may
be abolished as a result of a review or abandoned as a result of continued
inactivity in excess of one academic year.
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