Wayne State University's Sponsored Program Administration (SPA) seeks to provide our
school's faculty, staff, and students with the best possible resources to facilitate
their efforts in the identification of funding sources, submission of proposals, and
administration of sponsored programs, private grants, and gifts.
SPA ardently accepts responsibility for the formidable task of information dissemination essential
to the funding process, from announcement of funding opportunities to making recipients
aware of the responsibilities incumbent in the acceptance and utilization of their award.
Along with the dissemination of information, the staff of SPA endeavors to encourage and
facilitate sponsored program activities in research, instruction, and public service. This
matching of University faculty, staff, and students with sources of funding outside the
University creates a challenge to balance and protect the diverse interests of Wayne State
university, sponsoring agencies, and sponsored programs investigators; SPA exists to
meet this challenge.
We also provide, and are committed to, a research environment of the
highest standards of ethics and quality of treatment and care involving human and animal
investigational research. In addition, SPA also realizes the need for structured
training. In addressing this goal, we assist the University community by providing
information on University procedures and resources and on the continually changing
requirements of sponsors to resolve concerns as they arise. Finally, we acknowledge the
success of awardees through letters of appreciation and announcement of the awards.
Our best indicators of success are the University's national
rankings as defined by the Carnegie Foundation's Research University I designation and the
National Science Foundation (NSF). Equally important is a continued increase in proposals
submitted, including a growth in collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, as well as
maintenance of the highest levels of accreditation by the American Association for
Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) and assurances through the Office for
Protection of Research Risks (OPRR) at the National Institutes of Health and through other
national and local agencies. The current goal is to begin the next decade in the third
quartile in the NSF rankings.
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