Enhance library materials and support. Administration and faculty enhance opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student participation in research. Encourage scholarly activities that incorporate multicultural perspectives. Campus strengthen the Office of Sponsored Programs to take a proactive role in increasing proposals and advocate on campus for the importance of research. VCAA create a Faculty Research Board to make recommendations to VCAA regarding policies that support faculty efforts to engage in sponsored research, and to make periodic reviews of the effectiveness of the Office of Sponsored Programs activities and programs, with broad input from the campus and outside agencies.
Campus expand grants and contracts oversight services.
Emphasize the creation of laboratory space in new academic buildings. Goals Objectives Possible Strategies Use and enhance technology to improve teaching, learning, research and management. Provide physical infrastructure to support academic and administrative information technology needs. Ensure adequacy of physical infrastructure. Develop and implement a needs based system of technology asset and resource management to include regular upgrades and maintenance of hardware and software.