Goal 5
Foster a culture of research, scholarship and creative activity that supports and rewards faculty involvement and engages students and external partners
Strategies:
- Develop a process to document, recognize, and disseminate faculty scholarship, research and creative activities, especially scholarly activities with students.
- Enhance support for faculty research/creative capacity and output.
- Increase engagement of staff in research activity by maximizing staff and related personnel supported by grant money.
- Encourage cross-collaboration of faculty and staff in research endeavors through identifying existing space for interaction.
- Ensure scholarly activity is valued through the development of uniform faculty evaluation plans.
- 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.