Involment of Central Luzon State University faculty members in research and development projects
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2018
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Paolo Carl E. Soliven
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Research and Development (R&D) is an important component for national advancement and these projects are considered functions on academia and the industry. Nowadays, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) such as college and universities are major contributors' in generating new knowledge and technologies and also in development projects for improvement and innovation. Faculty members of HEIs are not only educators but also researchers and inventors, This study seeks to generate new knowledge on the limited existing studies on faculty members involvement in research and development (R&D) projects. It aimed to point out the cause of the low levels of involvement in R&D Programs. Sixty-one faculty members answered the questionnaire. They were chosen using a combination of stratified and simple random sampling as the sampling method. Based on the gathered data results, majority of the faculty members of CLSU are involved in research and development projects and more than half of the faculty members who were not involved in R&D are into research. According to the response of the faculty members who were not involved in R&D, majority answered having no time and funding. Faculty members view overload units on instructions, lack of resources such as equipment and facilities, and funds for R&D projects as problems. The main reason why other faculty members were not involved in R&D projects was overload on teaching.