Goal: Research
Objective: Cultivate a culture that supports faculty innovation and creativity
- Provide opportunities for senior faculty to mentor colleagues on funding and professional development
- Enhance startup packages for faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
- Enhance travel funding for faculty participation at professional meetings and conferences
- Use social media and other communication vehicles to recognize faculty leadership in research
- Create infrastructure within the college to facilitate collaborative and/or large-scale grant writing across disciplines
- Restore faculty research development assignments to support new lines of funded scholarship and research
Objective: Develop and maintain a state of the art environment for research and scholarship
- Identify priorities for the enhancement of existing space for classrooms, laboratories, studios, and performance spaces.
- Work toward greater efficiency in the use of research resources
- Identify priorities for new research facilities in collaboration with strategic partners
Objective: Establish more interdisciplinary opportunities
- Support and promote the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as a focus of faculty research, grant development, and interdisciplinary work
- Coordinate the recruitment, retention, promotion, and tenure of jointly-appointed faculty
- Remove bureaucratic obstacles so that all faculty and units are credited appropriately
- Explore and evaluate ideas for new programs in cross-cutting areas such as sustainability, social sciences, life sciences, or digital humanities
Objective: Expand strategic collaborative partnerships
- Explore strategic partnerships with world-renowned institutions in Georgia (e.g. Centers for Disease Control, Carter Center)
- Cultivate partnerships with international institutions
- Initiate strategic research partnerships with University System of Georgia faculty and programs
- Develop strategic partnerships with new UGA programs including medicine and engineering