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Academic Research
MISSION
The mission of Columbia's Office of Academic Research (OAR) is to cultivate, sustain, and promote a core of arts and media-focused research and outreach centers which advance insight and understanding of major issues in the arts and media. The OAR fulfills its mission by sharing the knowledge and information resources of these centers with the Columbia community and beyond, and encouraging collaboration with teaching programs in developing relevant and distinctive research opportunities. Most important, for every center, the bottom line is return on investment for students, in the form of programming, research opportunities, and fulfillment of educational objectives and learning outcomes.
HISTORY
The Office of Academic Research was established Administrative Office of the College in 2005. It supports the Center for Asian Arts and Media; Center for Black Music Research; Center for Community Arts Partnerships; Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; Museum of Contemporary Photography; and the College Library and Archives. These centers may conduct research through artistic practice, and by using primary and secondary research methods, applied research, and action research. They share knowledge, and inform, enhance, and inspire academic programs through inquiry, discussion, teaching, publications, exhibitions, and performances.
The OAR and its centers inform and engage the college community by fortifying existing partnerships and collaboration between centers and faculty; establishing specialized collections and scholarly repositories, where appropriate, in support of research; organizing cooperative research arrangements within and beyond the college; providing support and resources for conducting effective research and accessing scholarly literature; seeking development opportunities; promoting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programming; establishing fellows programs; building an internal mentoring network; providing direction and support for individual faculty and student research; and proving leadership in scholarly publishing. The OAR supports integrative research programs such as the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Mentorship Initiative. It also houses the Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ), published by Taylor & Francis, a peer-reviewed quarterly publication whose mission is to support and intensify the professional development of Teaching Artistry. In addition, the OAR administers the college's Institutional Review Board (IRB), which ensures that human and animal subjects used in research are protected.
The OAR is located in 218 S. Wabash.
In 2005, Jo Cates, then Dean of the Library, was promoted to Vice President of Academic Research, also retaining the title of Dean of the Library. Conrad Winke, then Head of Technical Services and Acting Director of the Library, was promoted to Associate Dean of the Library and Academic Research. Michelle Ferguson became Assistant to the Associate Vice President for Academic Research and Dean of the Library/ IRB Administrative Support.
The mission of Columbia's Office of Academic Research (OAR) is to cultivate, sustain, and promote a core of arts and media-focused research and outreach centers which advance insight and understanding of major issues in the arts and media. The OAR fulfills its mission by sharing the knowledge and information resources of these centers with the Columbia community and beyond, and encouraging collaboration with teaching programs in developing relevant and distinctive research opportunities. Most important, for every center, the bottom line is return on investment for students, in the form of programming, research opportunities, and fulfillment of educational objectives and learning outcomes.
HISTORY
The Office of Academic Research was established Administrative Office of the College in 2005. It supports the Center for Asian Arts and Media; Center for Black Music Research; Center for Community Arts Partnerships; Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; Museum of Contemporary Photography; and the College Library and Archives. These centers may conduct research through artistic practice, and by using primary and secondary research methods, applied research, and action research. They share knowledge, and inform, enhance, and inspire academic programs through inquiry, discussion, teaching, publications, exhibitions, and performances.
The OAR and its centers inform and engage the college community by fortifying existing partnerships and collaboration between centers and faculty; establishing specialized collections and scholarly repositories, where appropriate, in support of research; organizing cooperative research arrangements within and beyond the college; providing support and resources for conducting effective research and accessing scholarly literature; seeking development opportunities; promoting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programming; establishing fellows programs; building an internal mentoring network; providing direction and support for individual faculty and student research; and proving leadership in scholarly publishing. The OAR supports integrative research programs such as the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Mentorship Initiative. It also houses the Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ), published by Taylor & Francis, a peer-reviewed quarterly publication whose mission is to support and intensify the professional development of Teaching Artistry. In addition, the OAR administers the college's Institutional Review Board (IRB), which ensures that human and animal subjects used in research are protected.
The OAR is located in 218 S. Wabash.
In 2005, Jo Cates, then Dean of the Library, was promoted to Vice President of Academic Research, also retaining the title of Dean of the Library. Conrad Winke, then Head of Technical Services and Acting Director of the Library, was promoted to Associate Dean of the Library and Academic Research. Michelle Ferguson became Assistant to the Associate Vice President for Academic Research and Dean of the Library/ IRB Administrative Support.
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