Priority 2: Develop, Advance, and Promote Innovative Research & Creative Activities

We will...

• Increase the national and global visibility of research and creative activities.
• Highlight real-world solutions that emerge from scholarly activity.
• Create opportunities that equip researchers to translate their research and creative activities into solutions.

Key Performance Indicators

• Actively promote research and creative activity done by College of Health & Human Sciences faculty and students via social media, news stories, and marketing campaigns.
• Increase the number of national and international conference presentations and exhibits by College of Health & Human Sciences faculty.
• Establish an interdisciplinary College of Health & Human Sciences community advisory board designed to assist with the development of community-related studies, participant recruitment, and dissemination of research results.

High Impact Practices

• Produce important media, communications, and marketing stories.
• College of Health & Human Sciences Centers and Institutes provide empirically based knowledge and support throughout the community.

We will...

• Equip faculty with resources and training to engage in high-quality research and creative activities.
• Maintain high expectations of faculty with research appointments to consistently engage in research and creative activities that are supported by competitive external and internal funding.
• Encourage faculty to apply for external funding opportunities such as federal, state, private, and foundation sources.
• Provide faculty with individualized assistance in identifying external funding opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number of external funding proposals and awards.
• Increase the number of faculty submitting external funding proposals.
• Increase the number of doctoral students supported by external faculty grants.
• Continue to provide competitive seed funding to College of Health & Human Sciences faculty that can be leveraged in external funding proposals.
• Increase the number of high-quality scholarly publications and creative activities by College of Health & Human Sciences faculty.

High Impact Practices

• College of Health & Human Sciences internal seed grant program.
• College of Health & Human Sciences External Grant Submission Incentive.

We will...

• Create opportunities for College of Health & Human Sciences faculty to share their expertise and learn about work done by colleagues within the college and university.
• Provide resources for collaborative research and creative activity.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number of interdisciplinary teams that include faculty within the college and across the university and TTU Health Sciences Center.
• Increase investments in interdisciplinary teams.

High Impact Practices

• Cross-college collaboration seed grant.
• Faculty research forums.
• Strategic themes and health and wellness seed grants.
• Seek TUF proposals by engaging in collaborative initiatives with other TTU researchers.
• Recruit, retain, and support the excellence of faculty and staff to achieve these goals.

We will...

• Promote research opportunities for undergraduate students in the college.
• Support undergraduate students to find research placements with faculty.
• Provide resources to support faculty and undergraduate students in these partnerships.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number of undergraduate students in the College of Health & Human Sciences involved in research.
• Support faculty by including and recognizing undergraduate research mentorship in annual faculty reviews and promotion and tenure processes.
• Provide seed funding to faculty for undergraduate research projects.
• Grow university-wide initiatives to support and enhance undergraduate research opportunities.

High Impact Practices

• College of Health & Human Sciences undergraduate research seed grant.
• College of Health & Human Sciences undergraduate research forum.