Individualized RCR Training

Because research suggests that online training alone has a limited ability to impact daily ethical decision making in research and scholarship, trainees also participate in Individualized “Face-to-Face” Training.

Individualized training allows trainees to engage in thoughtful explorations of responsible conduct as they pursue their academic careers.

Credit for Training: For credit at training hosted by the RCR Office, you will answer questions during the talk for participation. For credit at seminars hosted by other divisions, you need to sign in (or scan in). Then, after the seminar, you need to write a short summary consisting of (at minimum) 1-2 sentences on the seminar content and 1-2 sentences on how it relates to your research (include your R# on the summary).

Please submit summaries to researchintegrity@ttu.edu.

2026 Summer RCR Schedule

On-Demand RCR Training

The TTU RCR Office also serves the university by offering classroom visits to educate students on critical areas of Responsible Research.

Included below is a list of RCR Training topics and additional topics that foster student success. We also offer custom combinations of topics to address more areas if you would like. For example, Authorship and Collaboration Agreements can have overlapping issues, and we could cover both in the same classroom visit.

If you are interested in a classroom visit, please send a request to researchintegrity@ttu.edu.

Classroom visits are subject to schedule availability. Please make requests at least one week in advance of the anticipated visit.

Responsible Conduct in Research Training Topics:

1. RCR General Overview
2. Authorship
3. Collaborative Research
4. Conflicts of Interest and Commitment
5. Data Management
6. Mentoring and Healthy Research Environments
7. Peer Review & Publication
8. Plagiarism
9. Research Misconduct—Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism
10. *Using Animal Subjects in Research—May be delivered by an IACUC spokesperson
11. *Research Involving Human Subjects—May be delivered by an HRPP spokesperson

Additional Topics Supporting Trainee Success:

12. Scandals—Not Misconduct, but Bad for Your Reputation
13. Procrastination and Time Management
14. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
15. Institutional Awareness and Skills

Training Overview

Postdoc, Student, Technician, & Volunteer RCR Training Requirements

The goals of the TTU RCR Training Program are to educate research trainees in all critical areas of Responsible Research and to encourage research trainees to incorporate responsible research practices throughout their careers. Because challenges to research integrity vary among disciplines, and can change over the course of a career, research trainees participate in three components of RCR training that have complementary goals:

1. First, all trainees are required to engage in a safety training that is appropriate to their academic discipline and to the hazards that they may encounter in their coursework and research.
2. Second, all trainees are required to complete discipline-appropriate online research ethics training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).
3. Because research suggests that online training alone has a limited ability to impact daily ethical decision making in research and scholarship, trainees also participate in Individualized “Face-to-Face” Training. Individualized training allows trainees to engage in thoughtful explorations of responsible conduct as they pursue their academic careers.

Instructions for complying with mandatory RCR Training.

RCR Training requires completion of all of these three components:

1. Safety Training – The safety training requirement can be met either by internal departmental training or online training provided by Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). If your department provides internal safety training, please send documentation or a note from your safety officer or mentor that you have completed training to ResearchIntegrity@ttu.edu. All RCR trainees must complete the CHP Assessment.
2. Online Ethics Training provided by CITI – Trainees must complete one RCR training course. There are RCR courses available for the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, humanities, engineering and the social and behavioral sciences. Access CITI Training. Each CITI training module includes a test. Forward your completion certificates to your adviser and to ResearchIntegrity@ttu.edu.
3. Individualized Training can be completed in two ways.
   1. Complete a course in Research Ethics. Engineering (ENG5392), Philosophy (PHIL5125) and Business (MGT5372) offer graduate level courses in research ethics. Completing a didactic course in research ethics permanently fulfills the “face-to-face” training requirement. Note, however, that trainees (or their financial support) must pay course tuition and fees.
   2. OR, participate in ongoing seminars/conferences/workshops that occur throughout the academic year. This is a no-cost option. Announcements of scheduled events are emailed to trainees. To subscribe to the event list, email Landon.Lutrick@ttu.edu. To earn credit for these seminars, trainees attend seminar events and submit a short summary to researchintegrity@ttu.edu. The summary must include the trainee’s R-number and demonstrate comprehension of seminar content. Minimal summary requirements are 1-2 sentences on the seminar content and 1-2 sentences on how the information relates to the trainee’s research. If this option is chosen, a trainee must earn six credits per academic year. One credit generally translates into a one hour seminar.