USFSP Research Mission, Value, Vision, and Goals

Mission

USF St. Petersburg offers distinctive graduate and undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences, business, and education within a close knit, student-centered learning community that welcomes individuals from the region, state, nation, and world. We conduct wide-ranging collaborative research to meet society’s  needs and engage in service projects and partnerships to enhance the university and community’s social, economic and intellectual life.  As an integral and complementary part of a multi-institutional system, USF St. Petersburg retains a separate identity and mission while contributing to and benefiting from the associations, cooperation, and shared resources of a premier national research university.

Values

We value collaboration throughout the campus community in scholarship, research, and service.

Vision

Guided by its mission and values, USF St. Petersburg commits itself to leadership in education, research, and outreach on behalf of the people and communities it serves.

Our vision includes enhanced opportunities for community-based research, service, and learning.

Goals

Promoting, strengthening and supporting research as a pathway to learning, discovery, solving problems, and contributing to the public good.

Memberships

• Council on Undergraduate Research (CURA)
• National Council of Research Administrators (NCURA)

 

Important Development: Effective July 1, 2011

• The Division of Sponsored Research (DSR) requires the submission of a signed and fully-completed internal form accompanying all proposals. If the funding request has a cost-share:required or voluntary, the normal submission rule of 5 business days prior to the deadline may be altered. The PI bears responsibility to receive approval by the Dean and the RVC for Academic before the final request is submitted to the external agency.

Plan for extra time in routing the funding request. Cost-share may also include defining language such as Match and/or In-Kind Contributions.

• Export Controls Compliance in the University Context