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University of Windsor
Committee seeking feedback on research recommendations
A committee responsible for drafting proposals to advance the university's research activities is inviting faculty members and graduate students to comment on a preliminary list for inclusion in the University's strategic plan.
The committee, chaired by professors Dan Heath and Leslie Howsam, is charged with developing action steps to Create a more research-intensive university with graduate and professional programs that build on academic strengths.
In an e-mail message sent to instructors and grad students, it circulated a seven-point list of proposed recommendations:
- Ensure that each faculty develops a strategic research plan that supports and articulates a vision for scholarly excellence and for the development of critical mass in areas deemed to be of particular potential or existing strength.
- Recognize units that demonstrate improved and sustained research success.
- Advance Windsor’s status as a research university by toughening the criteria by which tenure and promotion decisions are made.
- Establish new intra- and inter-disciplinary research groups.
- Develop new graduate and professional programs in units and cross-disciplinary areas where high-profile researchers form a cluster of scholarly expertise that will attract the most capable students.
- Increase the number and quality of incoming graduate students.
- Involve undergraduate students in enhancing the university's research profile and reputation by integrating research into undergraduate curricula.
The group is inviting e-mail responses by Wednesday, February 10. Comments will be confidential; members of the committee will see only the message text, not the sender's name. Faculty members may send their comments to wkngrpf@uwindsor.ca; graduate students to wkngrps@uwindsor.ca.