Research Support Oversight Committee (RSOC)
The Research Support Oversight Committee (RSOC), originally established in November 2016, serves as an advisory group to senior leadership for research-related safety, compliance, integrity, and risks to the research enterprise. The RSOC ensures a coordinated approach to assessing, mitigating,and monitoring these risks.
Objectives:
- Develop principles, guidelines, and strategies for promoting research integrity
- Identify critical risks and ensure clear, well-defined roles and responsibilities and assign accountability for those risks
- Develop principles, guidelines, and strategies for promoting research integrity and addressing lapses
- Increase the coordination of compliance and risk-reduction activities overseen by the various research oversight committees and vice presidents
- Inform senior leadership of current and arising issues and concerns in research integrity, safety, compliance, and other risk areas
- Provide input on any proposed compliance initiatives or policies and/or procedures that may have significant impact on campus research
- Ensure that oversight committees are aware of new or substantive changes to ongoing, research objectives or initiatives that may impact their areas of responsibility