If you like what you see here, we’d love to have you join us to develop CUSP further! Contact CUSP@thefdp.org to inquire. Volunteer opportunities include working with our team in one of 4 areas:
The Education and Outreach committee provides the research compliance administrators and research community information about the CUSP project. The subcommittee’s main objectives are:
Co-Chairs:
Purpose
The FDP CUSP Sharing Site Help Desk Team creates and maintains the site’s help resources (e.g., help articles, videos). The team responds to requests for new institutional accounts, creates accounts, and provides ‘getting started’ information. The team also responds to general inquiries about using the site and escalates inquiries to another team if needed.
Current Activities/Initiatives
The Help Desk Team is recruiting new team members! The team is developing and refining help documents to assist users of the sharing site and our internal procedures for consistent support. We are collaborating with other teams to identify and help resolve gaps or unmet needs for CUSP users.
Co-Chairs:
Are you interested? Come join the CUSP Help Desk Team!
Many hands make light work! Serving on this team allows members to increase their familiarity with CUSP. It provides a professional development opportunity to network with colleagues nationwide on a project that directly benefits the animal research community. As a part of our team, you’ll attend monthly team meetings; draft and review user documentation; and help staff the help desk to answer general inquiries, set up new accounts, and escalate technical issues or other content questions. Are you interested and would like more information? Contact one of the Co-Chairs (above) or email cusphelpdesk@thefdp.org.
The Quality Control Committee is responsible for oversight, development and maintenance of the overall quality for CUSP. We provide the necessary planning and control to ensure this level of success.
The group monitors and reports on quality issues and shares best practices throughout the organization. We also provide guidance to develop, issue, and analyze ongoing surveys and evaluations. The committee provides oversight for data integrity review, and analysis (e.g. incomplete records), and also reviews flagged procedures, following up with institutions as needed to correct incomplete records, address flagged procedures etc.
The subcommittee’s main objectives are:
Please contact the Quality Control Subcommittee at cusp@thefdp.org with any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns.
The IT Support Committee serves to provide technical IT support and development for the FDP CUSP project. The subcommittee’s main objectives are:
Co-Chairs: Ted Evans (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Asmita Kumar (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Please contact the Technical Systems Subcommittee at cusp@thefdp.org with any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns.
| Overall Direction and Oversight | Aubrey Schoenleben, University of Washington
Sally Thomspon-Iritani, University of Washington |
| Project Management | Aubrey Schoenleben, University of Washington |
| Federal Agencies (advisory role only) | Axel Wolff and Neera Gopee, NIH/OLAW TBD, USDA TBD, VA |
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