Social and Behavioral Science Responsible Conduct of ResearchĪll educational courses in the area of RCR contain modules on authorship, collaboration, conflicts of interest, data management, mentoring, peer review, research misconduct and plagiarism.Physical Science Responsible Conduct of Research.Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research.Responsible Conduct of Research for Engineers.Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research.RCR Training options currently available are:

It is expected that all faculty members with research funding from internal AND/OR external sources will maintain RCR training. The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the Office of Research Integrity and in light of our institution's continued adherence to the Federal Research Misconduct Policy, highly recommends that all institutional members conducting any type of research establish an account with CITI and complete the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) courses that are best suited to their discipline. As of June 2020, Human Subjects Research training is available in both English and Spanish. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)Ī full catalog of courses currently available to faculty, staff and students may be found here.Subjects available include the following: Registration for CITI can be accessed here. SPAR is happy to announce that SCSU now offers the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program. In their own words, CITI provides “high-quality, peer-reviewed, web-based educational courses in research, ethics, regulatory oversight, responsible conduct of research, research administration, and other topics pertinent to the interests of member organizations and individual learners.”

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