| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 54.92 |
| Liaison | Leila Lamoureux |
| Submission Date | Dec. 9, 2024 |
Babson College
AC-8: Responsible Research and Innovation
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.17 / 7.00 |
David
Blodgett Associate Professor Faculty |
8.1 Published ethical code of conduct for research
Online location of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
Copy of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
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8.2 Recognition of integrated, community-based, and extra-academic research
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize integrated research:
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize integrated research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to community-based research?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize community-based research:
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize community-based research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to research impact or reach outside of academic journals?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals:
Text from Statement on Intellectual Contributions and Faculty Qualifications:
Our faculty practices recognize a variety of intellectual contributions for the purposes of evaluation, tenure and promotion: articles in peer-reviewed as well as editor-reviewed journals; academic books as well as commercial books and textbooks; essays in books; research and teaching cases; conference presentations, research reports and electronic products.
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
If Yes to any of the above, provide at least one form of evidence (website URL or document). If reporting on multiple guidelines or policies, provide the best available example and/or a website that provides an overview of promotion/tenure for academic employees.
Copy of the institution’s promotion/tenure guidelines or policies:
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8.3 Inter-campus collaboration for responsible research and innovation
Description of the institution’s inter-campus collaborations for responsible research and innovation:
Babson has partnered with Olin College and Wellesley College through a three-college collaboration (BOW) that awards innovation, socialization, and collaboration among students and faculty across the three campuses. BOW funds and supports these partnerships through Presidential Innovation Grants, Curricular Innovation Fellowships, Teaching and Learning Workshops (the most recent workshop focused on universal design for learning (UDL), and the Student Programming Fund.
Details can be found at the following link: https://www.bow3colleges.org/programs
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8.4 Support for open access publishing
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Does the institution have one or more published policies that require its employees to publish scholarly works open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository?:
Do the open access policies cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Text or online location of the institution’s open access policies:
Copy of the institution’s open access policies:
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access APC fund:
All research faculty are provided with a $5,000 annual research budget. This funding can be used for any research related need. As such, this money is used to fund open access article processing charges.
Does the institution negotiate or participate in transformative open access agreements that are consistent with ESAC guidelines?:
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