Recruit, retain, and promote outstanding
faculty and staff committed to the values of the University.
Implementation will include activities such as:
a)
Increasing salaries to
allow more competitive recruitment and retention of faculty and staff in
all units; and
b)
Initiatives to recruit and
retain a more diversified faculty and staff.
Ensure that academic support structures
promote excellence in teaching, scholarship, and creative activities.
Implementation will include activities such as:
a)
Enhancing Milner Library
collections, services and resources to support instruction, scholarship
and creative activities; and
b)
Updating The Master
Plan: Achieving Distinctiveness and Excellence in Form, Function, and
Design to take into consideration other plans such as The Redbird Renaissance
and the continued development of the Gregory Street property.
Facilitate the appropriate use of
on-site, on-line, and other innovative delivery methods of instruction.
Implementation will include
activities such as:
a)
Installing, maintaining,
and updating appropriate teaching technology in all classrooms; and
b)
Expanding instructional
and technological support to facilitate faculty in updating teaching
strategies and using new instructional technologies effectively through
services such as the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology.
Assist faculty and staff as they seek
external funding, work to publish in their disciplines and continue to
serve the University and its students.
Implementation will include activities such as:
a)
Establishing and
supporting a center for research and scholarship that provides strategic
development opportunities for faculty engaged in research and scholarly
activities;
b)
Providing centralized
support for assisting faculty and staff with preparation and submission
of grant applications;
c)
Providing additional
support and incentives for faculty to engage in research such as paid
leaves, travel, and graduate student support;
d)
Enhancing the visibility
of, and training and support for, academic technology applications for
research; and
e)
Developing doctoral
programs in academic disciplines with long-term research potential.
Expand international
faculty exchanges to enhance faculty knowledge and internationalization
of curriculum.
Expand the systematic reflection on, and
study of, teaching and learning through continued national leadership in
the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) initiative.
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