Office of Sponsored Programs

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) promotes and facilitates scholarly activity at Southwestern Oklahoma State University by supporting and administering all activities involving extramural and intramural sponsored programs. OSP serves as a central location to carryout the University's extramural (external) and intramural (internal) sponsored activity. OSP reports to the Associate Provost for Academic and Student Affairs.

The major area of responsibility is extramural activity. Principal Investigators are assisted in the preparation and submission of grant, contract, and cooperative agreement proposals. To that end, all grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements representing University obligations must be authorized through OSP. Funding opportunities are regularly provided to the University community. OSP serves as the mechanism whereby the University carries out the programmatic and monetary obligations of the activities and OSP also acts as a liaison between the granting agencies and the University to ensure compliance.

OSP administers intramural funded programs that include Financial Assistance Awards, Proposal Development Awards, and Organized Research funding. In addition, OSP maintains the archives for various Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the University Community's Scholarly Activity reporting.

In conjunction with the Faculty Research/Scholarly Activity Committee, OSP sponsors an annual Student Research/Scholarly Activity Fair.

This Web site contains information about funding, proposal preparation, research compliance, and other policies and procedures related to OSP. Please use the quick-links on the left to navigate to the different OSP areas.