Re: Motivating Faculty Herbert B. Chermside 28 May 1999 08:12 EST

You have expanded on my restricted statement properly and elegantly!!

Chuck

At 06:29 PM 5/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Herbert (and RESADM-L)
>        While I can't argue with much of your logic, that is...we as research
>administrators need to make the research process as easy as possible for our
>faculty...and facilitate excellence in research by providing a "can-do"
>approach...I still believe that we must play a critical role in the
>motivation process.  If we honestly believe we really don't effect research
>motivation, then we won't!!
>        Of course, higher level administrators must be the prime
motivators.  But
>that motovation must flow down to the lowest levels of research
>administration.  If we don't all buy-in to the concept, the faculty surely
>won't.  Even our student assistants understand that they play a very
>important role in motovating research at the University of Florida, IFAS.
>        And if,for one second, we allow the concept of "nitpickers and
roadblocks"
>to be assoicated with our profession, our research programs are forever
>doomed.
>Rusty Okoniewski, Interim Director
>IFAS Sponsored Programs
>University of Florida
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