Each faculty member has, on average, one refereed journal article or one juried exhibition each year. Research findings appear in the popular press and faculty members are asked to give expert testimony. Revise position descriptions, tenure and promotion standards, and performance evaluation materials to reflect discovery-related activities. Position descriptions include expectations for discovery. Graduate education efforts, proposal preparation, traditional and nontraditional dissemination of findings, and collaborative discovery is recognized and fostered in the reward system.
Faculty members develop and maintain a discovery portfolio.
Engage key constituents and partners in addressing needs of families, communities, related business organizations, and societies around the world. Recognize engagement as a major component of FCS work and reflect engagement in hiring practices, tenure and promotion standards, and college rewards. Create a college environmental scanning team for early identification of important trends. Quarterly reports by team. Use of trends by College in planning activities.