Goal 4: Strengthen Research Enterprise

Perform life-changing, interdisciplinary research and scholarship that is supported by world-class infrastructure and conducted by highly motivated researchers addressing the community and society’s greatest challenges.

2024 Actions:

• CAS will create a Research Council for the College of Arts & Sciences. The CAS Research Council will formulate recommendations to the Dean on college level research support mechanisms, research investments, and interdisciplinary thematic areas for cohort faculty hires.
  
  
• The CAS Research Council will periodically review and inventory research infrastructure (e.g. space, instruments).
  
  
• CAS will encourage development/advancement efforts from donors around start-up funds and to address aging infrastructure. CAS and CAS departments will jointly create an emergency fund for instrument repairs.
  
  
• CAS will develop and implement a staffing model that provides full-service research support from pre-award to grant closeout and collaborate with the Division of Research and Innovation to develop a post-award manual and streamline processes for post-award approvals for expending research funds.
  
  
• CAS will advocate for repairs to decrepit buildings. Decrepit buildings hurt recruitment of students and faculty and ultimately, hurt research.

Participants for Goal 4 Brainstorming Group are listed below.

The participants met several times during the 2023 fall semester to collaborate and develop a proposal for actions that was submitted to the dean for final approval.