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2011-2016 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ACTION PLAN
GOAL 1 ADVANCE SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY
Objective a. Increase the capacity of the faculty in departments, centers, clinics and the
UITE to conduct research and obtain extramural funding.
Initiatives
1. Develop a college-level mentorship program that creates incentives for faculty with
expertise in the areas of grant writing, research design and methods, and statistics to
provide support and mentorship to other faculty members in research and extramural
funding.
2. Establish a College of Education training program focused on orienting faculty to the
human subject approval and grant submission processes.
3. Establish a program to support faculty relationship-building activities with
project/grant officers in federal agencies and foundations.
4. Examine strategies to foster private/public partnerships, including linkages with the
University’s offices of Technology Commercialization and Tech Ventures.
5. Organize on-going exploratory events between faculty in the College of Education
and staff from local school districts and the state office of education to identify shared
research interests.
Objective b. Develop internal support strategies that allow faculty opportunities to
increase the proportion of their Full Time Equivalent (FTE) dedicated to research.
Initiatives
1. Revise the College of Education Grant Policy to give departments the option to
redefine the minimum academic year two course load teaching requirement to include
an option to combine and count independent study classes, capstone
projects/thesis/dissertation advising, and/or capstone projects/thesis/dissertation hours
as one course assignment.
2. Each department will develop guidelines that address the number of new course
preparations required of faculty in the probationary period.
3. Each department will develop criteria for evaluating workloads for faculty assigned to
department, college, and university service assignments. These criteria should be used
to inform RPT and merit pay decisions. [and community engagement