Goal 6: Providing Thought Leadership
The University will be recognized as a thought leader through enhanced productivity in scholarship and innovation in the role of the educator.
Objectives and Metrics:
- The University will have a comprehensive mechanism in place to identify, communicate and celebrate with internal and external constituencies the scholarly/professional productivity of faculty, staff and students. (2013)
- The University will have a comprehensive mechanism in place to identify, communicate and celebrate with internal and external constituencies its innovations in curricula and pedagogy. (2013)
- The University will develop a program of faculty development and collaboration that works to re-imagine the role of the teacher-scholar. (2014)
- The University will align scholarly, curricular and pedagogical expectations with strategic planning objectives and will focus incentives and professional development to support those expectations. (2014)
- The University will promote a 10 percent increase in the contributions that faculty and staff make to their respective professions and bodies of knowledge between 2013 and 2017. (2017)
- The University will increase the participation of students and faculty in faculty-student research projects over the 2013 base year contributions by 10 percent. (2017)
- The University will ensure that every college/school will have hosted a minimum of one regional or national academic/professional event. (2017)




