Broadening the Agenda for Scholarship and Research.
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USC Challenges
• Culture of Excellence: Expectation that Every Faculty Member is at the Forefront of His/Her Field.
• PhD/Postdoc Program that attracts the best students, and the best placements.
• Pervasive Innovation: Education, Research, Clinical all Recognized for Being New and Fresh.
Office Activities
• Center for Excellence in Research
• Direct/active Support for Funded Research
• Small Grants to Initiate Collaborative Research
• Support for Initiatives that Build University Strengths
• Financial Support for Core Shared Labs
More Measurement
“For Universities, the challenge will be ensuring that scholars who are making more and more of their material
online will be fairly judged in hiring and promotion decisions”
What Technology Can Do
• Information distributed & shared, quickly & cheaply
• Easier to find and retrieve desired information• Easier to expand research networks well beyond
home institution• Automated methods to assess relevance and
significance of information & sources• Archives can be dynamic, interactive and
collaborative
Our Traditions
• Peer reviewed print publications.
• Recognition of individual accomplishments, as viewed by others.
• Focus on one’s own (sub)discipline or academic department
• Contemplation
The Question
In our new world, how can universities best:
• Expand Knowledge
• Use Knowledge to Benefit Society
Do University Traditions Stand in the Way of Our Mission to Expand Knowledge, for the
Benefit of Society?