Goal: Research and Creativity - Cultivate the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching to advance knowledge and enhance society

Encourage local, regional, national and international partnerships in research, the arts and commercialization

• Grow externally funded research
• Develop research partnerships that capitalize on the University's urban and regional setting
• Expand state, national and international research activities and partnerships

Encourage and support research and scholarship that critically engages cultural/social/intercultural differences

• Develop an awareness of cultural/social/intercultural research issues
• Advance researchers and units addressing the region’s cultural/social/intercultural differences

Position personnel and resources to develop research and creative strength

• Grow and maintain existing areas of strength
• Enhance growth areas
• Increase interdisciplinary scholarship and research
• Strengthen Research Infrastructure
• Communicate faculty scholarship achievements