Goal 1: Identify and promote high-impact, transformational, interdisciplinary research areas.
Goal 2: Advance the SOE’s research reputation.
Goal 3: Develop partnerships and a community to drive research and innovation.
Research
Goal 1: Identify and promote high-impact, transformational, interdisciplinary research areas.
Strategies
- Convene faculty members to identify potential areas and then narrow them to a small, interdisciplinary set that most SOE faculty members can contribute to.
Strategies:
- Increase internal funding support and external grant-writing support for the identified areas
Strategies:
- Hire 10 new faculty in 3 years with proven records or strong potential for research in the identified areas.
- Create 2 endowed chaired positions that can attract or retain high-performing faculty in identified areas.
Strategies:
- Leverage strengths in the SOE for creative and impactful modes of communication.
- Strengthen existing and build new relationships and collaborations with educational organizations.
- Provide seed funding for innovative and interdisciplinary revenue producing endeavors.
Strategies:
- Identify and develop projects in each center and institute that contribute to the area and promote these throughout the SOE, campus, and university.
Goal 2: Advance the SOE’s research reputation
Strategies:
- Increase books and peer-reviewed articles produced by faculty through expanded writing group opportunities and summer funding for article/book production.
- Increase media coverage and social media posts about faculty and their publications.
Strategies:
- Increase the percentage of research-eligible faculty with external research funding.
- Increase sponsored research support from foundations, industry, and government by 50% over a 5-year period.
- Increase the proportion of research assistantships for PhD students supported by external funding.
- Find ways to make research assistantships cost less for externally funded projects.
- Double the number of external awards over $1 million.
Strategies:
- Prioritize DEI in every faculty and research-related hire.
- Increase the number of historically excluded faculty members in the SOE.
- Incentivize historically excluded faculty member participation in research support activities.
- Increase the number of grants received by historically excluded faculty by 100%.
Strategies:
- Increase the percentage of interdisciplinary grant applications by 50% over 5 years.
- Develop interdisciplinary working groups within the SOE that span departments.
Goal 3: Develop partnerships and a community to drive research and innovation.
Strategies:
- Find donors to endow a fund to support research technology and physical infrastructure.
Strategies:
- Convene faculty to identify barriers to collaboration and necessary changes to practice or policy related to cross-department and cross-campus research.
- Convene small groups of faculty members to facilitate cross-department and cross-campus research projects.
Strategies:
- Develop clear and transparent research metrics and reporting tools shared with the entire School community.
Strategies:
- Provide yearly funding to pay for 10 undergraduates to work hourly on research projects (faculty members apply for the funding and undergraduates apply for the positions).
- Provide yearly funding to pay for 10 master’s students to work hourly on research projects (faculty members apply for the funding and undergraduates apply for the positions).
- Provide research focused courses for new undergraduate programs.
- Develop interdisciplinary research groups that include both faculty and students.
Strategies:
- Consolidate SOE committees and service obligations.
- Rethink faculty roles in order to free up research time for research-focused faculty.