Goal 5

Foster a culture of research, scholarship and creative activity that supports and rewards faculty involvement and engages students and external partners

Strategies:

  1. Develop a process to document, recognize, and disseminate faculty scholarship, research and creative activities, especially scholarly activities with students.
  2. Enhance support for faculty research/creative capacity and output.
  3. Increase engagement of staff in research activity by maximizing staff and related personnel supported by grant money.
  4. Encourage cross-collaboration of faculty and staff in research endeavors through identifying existing space for interaction.
  5. Ensure scholarly activity is valued through the development of uniform faculty evaluation plans.
  6. Incentivize faculty scholarship by revising the indirect distribution formula to return research funds to the research accounts of the faculty members who generated those funds.