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GOAL 2: SCHOLARSHIP - Expand our scholarship and research activities, sustaining successful existing programs while pursuing new endeavors in carefully targeted areas.

Our national recognition and reputation must be based on scholarship and research. The goal of reaching national prominence can best be achieved by selecting and promoting a few strategic platforms that can be supported university-wide. Platforms will provide a network structure that links faculty, staff, departments, colleges, educational programs, and strong disciplinary cores which fuel the development of new interdisciplinary science and technologies. Platforms which have been proposed are: Biotechnology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Engineered Materials, Information Technology, Natural Resource Development. Some of these platforms link with new areas the National Science Foundation has identified as critical for promoting economic growth, creating rewarding jobs, and ensuring competitiveness: core disciplinary research, nanoscale science and engineering, information technology research initiative, biocomplexity focusing on environmental research, and the needs of the 21st century workforce. We have to consider these and other national priorities in further narrowing our focus.

Objectives:

2.1 Increase the number of interdisciplinary efforts in a few, well-focused platforms that will lead to world-class recognition;

Strategies:

• form cross-departmental, cross-college/schools faculty teams in our areas of focus;
• obtain endowed chairs in key areas;
• ensure that interdisciplinary work is properly recognized and rewarded

2.2 Increase the number of faculty actively engaged in research and graduate education;

Strategies:

• Reward scholarship and graduate education;
• Choose new faculty with strong research and graduate education interests;
• Devise equitable policies for the distribution of royalties from patents and copyrights among investigators, the central administration, schools/colleges, and departments.

2.3 Increase the percentage and number of graduate students who are supported externally;

Strategies:

• reward faculty who support graduate students;
• give the recruitment of graduate students highest priority;
• provide competitive compensation and benefit packages to attract and retain quality graduate students.

Goal 1: Learning | Goal 2: Scholarship | Goal 3: Size and Composition | Goal 4: Enrichment | Goal 5: Administration | Goal 6: Outreach | Goal 7: Image

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