2001 SRA Call for Contributed Papers !

You are invited to join your colleagues in presenting new initiatives, case studies, research results, and research administration contemporary white papers at the 2001 SRA Contributed Paper Sessions.

Contributed Paper Sessions will be held at a non-competing time period during the SRA Annual Meeting in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. October 13-17, 2001. The Paper Presentations Coordinator, Program Committee, and Editorial Review Board, invite  you, as an important part of our professional society, to prepare a paper on any appropriate topic involving our dynamic and changing field of research administration including, but not limited to the following:
-       ERA (such as evaluation of new software and/or databases)
-       Office Procedures (such as ones that resulted in CQI)
-       Structure and Outcomes of faculty workshops
-       Development and implementation of policies to facilitate        faculty research
-       Case studies of faculty recognition

Contributed Paper Sessions will showcase your research and initiatives in a brief  presentation (prepared in a Power Point slide format) followed by a short discussion with your audience.  If selected, your paper may be part of a published proceedings, distributed at the session, as well as posted on SRA’s website.  Selected papers will be reviewed by the Editorial Review Board for consideration in the Journal of Research Administration. Your paper may be a presentation on any research administration related topic, which makes for endless possibilities! Everyone is invited to participated, so contact the Paper Presentations Coordinator and start writing!

Finally, as you prepare to attend  your  respective Section’s Spring Meeting, please encourage outstanding presenters to submit a contributed paper.

For more information on the 2001 SRA Contributed Paper Session, please contact the Coordinator, Linda  W. Patton at 619-260-6825 or e-mail her at xxxxxx@is.acusd.edu. Inquiries may also be mailed to: 

Linda  W. Patton, Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park, Maher Hall 210
San Diego, CA 92110-2492





Steps and Specifications

1. Sign up immediately, by sending an e-mail containing the following information to: Linda W. Patton at xxxxxx@is.acusd.edu or fax the same information to (619) 260-2225.

Author(s):

Author(s) e-mail address:

Proposed Title of Paper:

2. As soon as it is available but no later than August 1, 2001 send an e-mail with a MS Word attachment containing the following information to: Linda W. Patton at xxxxxx@is.acusd.edu or fax the same information to (619) 260-2225.

Author(s):

Author(s) title:

Author(s) affiliation:

Author(s) e-mail address:

Author(s) mailing address:

Final Title of Paper:

An abstract of 100 - 200 words, prepared in MS Word (compatible with Word 97) with 1 ½ inch top, left, right and bottom, in Times Roman 12pt, left and right justified.

Please omit graphics in the abstract or any special characters or locks that will prevent opening and reformatting.

Your name and paper title will be printed in the final program, inclusive of your assigned presentation time of presentation. The SRA Contributed Paper Sessions will showcase your paper in a 5-10 minutes’ presentation, followed by 5-10 minutes of discussion with the audience.

3. As soon as it is available but by no later than August 1, 2001 send a diskette or an e-mail attachment containing a single file of your complete paper to: Linda W. Patton at xxxxxx@is.acusd.edu. Mailed submissions should be addressed to: Linda W. Patton, Director; Office of Sponsored Programs, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Maher Hall 210, San Diego, CA 92110-2492. Your paper must consist of the following characteristics:

a) Approximately 3,000 words or less, which is approximately 7 single spaced pages, not including bibliographic information, biographical information nor graphs, charts, or other appendices which may be up to an additional 3 pages.

b) MS Word (compatible with Word 97)

c) Times Roman 12pt except where otherwise specified.

d) Margins are to be 1 ¼ inch on left and right, 1inch top, and 1 ½ inch bottom (for page numbering) and no page numbers please.

e) One-column format with a left and right justification (for two sided binding)

f) Headings may be bold 12pt.

g) Charts, graphs, pictures, tables and other illustrations may be imbedded within text, with appropriate headings and titles so long as they can be opened and printed with MS Word. If they cannot be, then leave sufficient space in the body of your paper and send along camera ready copy of the graphics.

h) Skip one line between paragraphs.

i) Bibliographic Information is to follow body of the paper; skip two lines before heading of Bibliography, same format, margins as body except use 10pt. Recommendation is to list and number each reference, when referring to them in the text; type the corresponding reference number in superscript form. The list should be done utilizing a recognized format such as the American Psychological Association.

j) Biographical Information to follow bibliographic information; skip two lines before heading of Biographical Information, same format and margins except use 10pt. Consider each author as a separate paragraph; skip one line between each author. Author’s name should be in bold, followed by up to 4 lines of text per author.

For example:

(this is one inch from top)

             This is the title of my paper (this may be bold and 14pt) and centered

(skip two lines)

                                        SRA Member

                                      Director, Office of

                                         University of

                                         E-mail me at

                    Send my mail to (all this may be bold and 12pt) and all centered

(skip two lines)

My text starts here and continues for up to 7 pages; my paper may be organized in such a way as to contain these sections: Abstract or Executive Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results or Conclusions, Bibliographic Information, and Biographical Information

Papers will be re-formatted only if they do not comply with the above specifications.

4) The time of your paper presentation will be sent to you by approximately September 14, 2001.

5) The presentation room will be equipped with microphone, overhead projector, and, by special request, a PC projector for use with PowerPoint. If making a PowerPoint presentation, please bring your own laptop.

6) For additional information please contact:

Linda W. Patton, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Maher 210, San Diego, CA 92110-2492; xxxxxx@is.acusd.edu (619) 260-6825

I'm looking forward to working with YOU!