#PRCN2020: Research Enterprise Management: How Higher Education Must Evolve

Presented by

David Weindorf, Vice President of Research and Innovation, University of Central Michigan, USA

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Keynote: HKeynote: Higher education institutions worldwide face unprecedented challenges in coming years. Competition for financial resources is intense and operations must be optimized to utilize available funding in the most impactful manner possible. To do so, an honest, dispassionate evaluation of university programs is compulsory. Knowledge of institutional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges is essential in positioning a university for future success. In the United States, public universities are likely to experience continued decline in state appropriations, making them increasingly reliant upon successful external grantsmanship. Concomitantly, more institutions will be going after the same funding, making the competition fiercer than ever. There is a concept that faculty and universities must always do more with less; that is, produce more scholarly output with ever decreasing support to do so. However, faculty morale is an important variable in success. Faculty need to know that their contributions to every output provide tangible progress toward greater university goals of increasing scholarly output and quality. Establishing the research metrics platforms to quantitatively track such is essential. Also, the assessment of unit/university performance relative to competitors (benchmarking) is critical in optimizing resource apportionment and strategic investment. A critical final piece of evolutionary advancement in higher education is establishing and cultivating an aspirational culture with a bold vision for the future. Collectively, faculty must feel empowered to do their best work in a manner that is mutually beneficial to their own academic progression as well as that of the institution. Truly, the success of both are intrinsically linked.
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