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Research & Promotion

 

Promotion and Tenure

Promotion and tenure information, forms, applications and relevant faculty handbook sections can be found on the Faculty Advancement website.

 

Professional Development Plan

The Professional Development Plan template and relevant faculty handbook sections can be found on the Faculty Advancement website.

 

Grants and Leaves

The Office of Academic Research and Grants exists to help serve faculty in facilitating their academic research interests with both guidance and administrative support throughout all stages of grant development to management.

The following grants and relevant faculty handbook sections can be found on the Faculty Advancement website: Provost Grant, Innovation Grant and Faculty Research & Development Grants.

Library Grant Resources: This research guide curates resources, especially for faculty research grants. The Biola Library helps faculty before, during, and after their research projects. Special databases enable faculty to discover funding sources as well as publications in their subject area. The Biola Digital Commons expands the impact of scholarly materials through archiving material outside of a paywall as allowed by most journal publishers’ Green Open Access policies. The Scholarly Communications Librarian is available to assist faculty in using these tools throughout the entire research lifecycle.

 

Research

  • Institutional Review Board: An IRB is an appropriately established group that has been formally designated to review and monitor research involving human participants. This group serves an important role in the protection of the rights and welfare of human research participants. IRB approval is required before any human participant research activities may begin. You can find the handbook, guidelines and forms on the IRB webpage.
  • Internal Surveys: 
    • Some surveys conducted at Biola do not require IRB approval, such as those used for internal administrative purposes only (e.g., course evaluations, departmental assessments and customer service/satisfaction surveys). However, internal surveys are still expected to protect the privacy of participants, confidentiality of individual responses, and voluntary nature of participation. In order to make sure that internal research follows ethical research practices, surveys administered by departments to gather feedback from faculty, staff or students must be approved by the Office of Educational Effectiveness (OEE) using the Survey Application form. Once an application has been received, OEE will coordinate with the Office of University Communications to make sure that the timing of the survey aligns with other internal communications. Once the application has been reviewed, submitters will receive a response, typically within 48 hours, with any recommendations that should be accommodated before the survey is sent to participants.
    • Please see the Research on Campus FAQ for more information about conducting surveys and other research activities at Biola.