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Create a university ecosystem that enables UI to be an international leader in confronting the grand challenges of the 21st Century. (Aligned with BOR SP Objectives 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3)
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- Identify and tackle the challenges that our singular and collective areas of strength are positioned to address.
- Invest in research centers and infrastructures that make collaboration natural, sustainable, and seamless.
- Create research partnerships with universities and institutes that complement our areas of strength.
- Support curricular innovations that promote collaboration.
- Enhance processes that enable students, staff, and faculty to locate collaborators and corresponding grant opportunities.
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Recruit and retain faculty and staff who possess the broad diversity essential to our research mission.
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- Create dissertation fellowship and post-doc opportunities for graduate and professional students who might be future colleagues at UI, and network with diverse faculty and staff in professional societies.
- Implement data-driven methods to improve campus inclusivity, including regular surveys of the campus climate.
- Establish mechanisms for regular and direct communication between the president and provost and representatives of students, staff, and faculty from underrepresented groups.
- Ensure that the service workload of faculty and staff from underrepresented groups is sustainable, in part by hiring and retaining more such faculty and staff.
- Energize campus and increase inclusion by creating opportunities for staff, students, faculty, and deans to advise on the implementation of strategic plans over their duration.
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Foster a campus culture in which UI faculty, students, and staff can maximize their research productivity. (Aligned with BOR SP Objectives 1.3, 2.1, 3.3)
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- Provide units with significant flexibility in such areas as effort allocation, retention, staff support, reporting procedures, and infrastructure.
- Invest in our strength as a comprehensive research university, as measured by AAU and other key metrics.
- Work with our legislators and other public and private leaders to secure the funding that is critical to our research mission.
- Coordinate the processes by which colleges and their units work with the UI Foundation to seek supplemental research support.
- Recognize and credit faculty and staff—at all stages of review—for their achievements in research, collaboration, teaching, and engagement.
- Invest in graduate and professional student research as integral to our mission as an R1 research university, and increase the number of research opportunities for undergraduate students in a way that highlights the distinctiveness of a UI education.
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