Research
- Increase expectation for research quality and productivity across the university
- Leverage performance across areas ranging from emerging to mature disciplines, assessing current as well as future contributions
- Facilitate the growth of interdisciplinary research agendas integrating social/behavioral and physical/biological disciplines
- As a comprehensive, international, research university built on land-grant traditions, continue to strengthen the liberal core in arts, humanities, social sciences while focusing on areas of traditional strength, opportunity, and need including:
- Plant science
- High energy & nuclear physics
- Health/life sciences(basic/translational)
- Food safety and security
- Public humanities and creative arts
- Energy/energy storage
- Environmental sciences
- Complex materials
- Education and pedagogy
- Policies and practice aligned to achieve sustainable external research funding model incorporating:
- Faculty incentives
- Research initiation expenses
- Facilities investments and assignments
- In-kind contributions
- Support of graduate students
- Seek annual increases in federal, foundation and corporate research grant activity in dollars and rates of change sufficient to close gap with peer institutions
- Sustain administrative oversight while reducing regulatory costs
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