1. Incentivizing Research Panel Presentation CADREI September 28, 2015 OLGA M. WELCH DEAN

2. Strategies  IT BEGINS WITH A PUBLICLY STATED EXPECTATION THAT EACH FACULTY MEMBER WILL COMPLETE AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH THAT IS RELATED TO AND INFORMS THEIR TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES.  IT IS NOT ONLY REQUIRED BY OUR STATE AND NATIONAL ACCREDITORS, BUT IT CONTRIBUTES TO OUR NATIONAL REPUTATION AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL FACULTY RECOGNITION AND ADVANCEMENT

3. COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORT

4. Examples  a summer grant program to support faculty research activities that faculty can apply for  a research fund available through the associate dean for academic affairs’ office that faculty can apply to at any time (for non-salary items, like survey costs, software and the like)  annual prizes for best research school wide (usually 3-4 awards, depending on the year)…these are monetary  travel support to top conferences to help faculty make connections and such for research  teaching reductions for new TT faculty for the first 3 years  2 faculty fellowships that go to existing faculty who are tenured and doing some great research…we have two such rotating positions (faculty can hold these for 3 years)

5. Examples (Continued)  PUBLICLY CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF COLLEAGUES IN FACULTY MEETINGS  FEATURE FACULTY MEMBER RESEARCH IN PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGNS IN CREATIVE WAYS/ALIGN WITH MISSION OF THE SCHOOL AND THE STAKEHOLDERS IT SERVES  ENCOURAGE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH/WITHIN AND OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL/COLLEGE-CAMPAIGN FOR FOUNDATION/UNIVERSITY SUPPORT

6. Faculty Workload & Incentives  Two year research start-up package ($15,000- $20,000)  Teach 12 quarter credits (10 week terms) per year  Equivalent to 4 courses  Teaching downloads with funding  One two light quarters depending on funding  10% salary increase incentive with first federal grant as Primary Investigator (PI)

7. Faculty Support & Mentoring  Two Interdisciplinary Research Units (IRU)  Peer Mentoring Groups  Business Manager (Grant Budgeting Pre & Post Award)  Library Search Assistance  Editing Services  Pre-Submission Review of Grant Proposal by National Experts  Co-op Research Assistant (RA for one day per week)  Faculty Development (One-month new faculty orientation, mentor, conference support, statistical support)

8. CHALLENGES  BUILDING A COLLEGEIAL CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES COLLABORATION RATHER THAN COMPETITION  EQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUPPORT-SCHOLARSHIP RECONSIDERED ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL!!  SHARING THE WEALTH- BUILDING THE RRSEARCH CAPACITY AT ALL LEVELS-ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR  ENSURING CONTINUED UNIVERSITY “BUY-IN” AND COMMITMENT TO INVESTING IN THE SCHOOL’S WORK

9. ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST “TRUMPS” EVERYTHING!!