On our campus, one obvious area of excellence is the scholarship on diversity. Enhancement Funds for Diversity Scholarship. Recognizing that the campus already has great strength in scholarship on diversity, we propose that this be further encouraged by the use of funds made available through the campus's enhancement process. We hope to increase the number of faculty engaged in this research. This is especially important in those departments which do not do so currently but where the possibility exists, given developments nationally in their discipline.
Many departments typically seek to enhance areas in which they already have significant strength.
Developing an area of research specialization in the area of diversity would be invaluable for both the department and for the campus as a whole. Not only is this research cutting-edge in most disciplines and therefore beneficial to the department's reputation for scholarly excellence, but also this would add to the University s reputation as a center of excellence in research on diversity and thus heighten the attractiveness of our institution to minority faculty, even those whose research does not focus in this area. In order for this to succeed, the University must value multicultural research and interdepartmental collaboration in the tenure review process. Coordinating Diversity Research Enhancement. The University already hosts a number of centers of research and curricular programs whose focus is the scholarship of diversity.