Research and Scholarship Committee
Charges
Mandate from Policy B02.0
The Research and Scholarship Committee shall formulate, monitor, and review policies and procedures pertaining to research operations and facilities, research regulation and compliance, and infrastructure in support of scholarly activities. The committee shall also serve as liaison for the Senate with the vice president of Research and with other appropriate administrators and administrative policy bodies of the university. The committee shall consist of one faculty member per college, each to be elected by their collegial faculty; three members at large elected by the Faculty Senate; one associate dean for Research (or equivalent) selected by the Deans Council; and the vice president for Research or their delegate (ex-officio, voting).
Charges for AY 2024:
New Charge
- Develop and propose a university research policy to establish standards for evaluating research that meets university criteria in addition to college-level criteria. This includes winning grants, publishing interdisciplinary work with faculty in other colleges and universities.
Supporting Language: Adopt a university research policy to establish standards for evaluating research that meets university criteria rather than college-level criteria. This includes winning grants, publishing interdisciplinary work with faculty in other colleges, and publishing in cross-disciplinary journals such as Nature.
Rationale: Grants, interdisciplinary research, and publishing in high-profile journals such as Nature are all consistent with the mission of the university, particularly its research strategy and its goal to be an R1 university. Faculty in some colleges are rewarded with positive evaluations for achieving these things. In other colleges, they are not. Many research standards are best left to the discipline and the faculty publishing in it, but for university research priorities like these, university-level guidance would help faculty pursue them and help administrators evaluate them.
