In lines with Marshall University Year 2010 Strategic Plan, the following goals have been set up for the Research section of the university. The Research and Creative Activities Advisory Council will adhesively work with research faculty, administration and students to achieve these goals:

Goal I: Improve the institutional environment for research

Goal II: Strengthen the interdependence between research and creative activities

Goal III: Increase public awareness of Marshall research

Goal IV: Focus resources on nationally relevant and regionally competitive research

Goal V: Increase research and creative actives

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Goal I:

Improve the institutional environment for research and creative activities in order to assist Marshall’s move to a Doctoral/Research Intensive Carnegie Classification.

• Establish additional doctoral level programs, emphasizing inter and cross-disciplinary studies where Marshall can serve unique niches.
• Increase external funding for research and creative activities and procure matching funds to take advantage of a growing number of grant opportunities.
• Create flexibility for department and program staffing to encourage and reward research and creative activities.
• Strengthen the reassigned time mechanism for faculty with semester-specific research projects.
• Give appropriate weight to research and creative arts activity in promotion, tenure and salary decisions.
• Hire additional faculty to cover teaching of faculty released from instructional duties.
• Increase the number of faculty awards for summer research and creative activities, increase award amounts, and make awards available throughout the year.
• Develop strategies to ensure a University Libraries’ materials budget that supports research and creative activities.
• Provide regionally competitive graduate research and creative activity assistantships and create new University Fellowships to
attract graduate students with outstanding research and creative arts potential.



Goal II:

Strengthen the interdependence between research and creative activities, teaching, and service.

• Establish a coordinating council to recognize and encourage activities that link research and creative efforts with teaching and service, through the Center for Teaching Excellence.
• Seek grants from federal and other sources for interdependent program development/assessment involving the integration of research and creative activities, teaching, and service.
• Establish opportunities for affiliate status with national initiatives that support collaborative university/public or private research in teaching.
• Commit resources to help faculty become effective mentors of research and creative activities.
• Establish a seminar program featuring experts in teaching through research and creative activities.
• Increase federal grants for undergraduate research.
• Recruit faculty with emphasis on research-based education.


Goal III:

 Increase public awareness of Marshall University’s growing stature in research and creative activities.

• Interact proactively with media (television, newspaper), public figures (business leaders, politicians/governing bodies), and alumni.
• Organize and support events focused on research and creative activities, such as university-wide expositions of research and creative activities, a faculty seminar series focused on interdisciplinary exchange, and public presentation of student Capstone projects.
• Use technology to provide public and internal access to various levels of research and creative activities information.

Goal IV:

Focus resources on nationally relevant and regionally competitive research and creative programs and activities.

• Identify Marshall programs that are currently, or show promise for, conducting research and creative activities that are important to the region and the state.
• Support Marshall research and creative programs that currently are, or show promise for, national prominence in research or creative activities.
• Develop a systematic method of identifying state, regional, and national research and creative activities priorities and matching them with appropriate Marshall faculty/staff.
• Provide facilities that support promising research and creative activities programs.



Goal V:

Increase research and creative activities that show promise for improving West Virginia’s economic development, natural and cultural environments, educational systems, health and social services.

• Establish a collaborative research and creative activities advisory board.
• Identify priorities in research related to economics, culture, environment, education, health and social services, manufacturing, transportation, biotechnology and diversity in West Virginia.
• Identify funding sources for research and creative priorities.
• Develop a dissemination model to provide various West Virginia agencies, institutions, and communities with research findings efficiently and effectively.
• Develop a model for translating research findings into practice for various statewide organizations.
• Develop relationships and cooperative agreements with regional, national and international organizations to provide greater opportunities for student involvement in the application of research methods and findings to service learning.
• Increase institutional capacity for technology transfer through the Marshall University Research Corporation.