SUPPORT IMPACTFUL RESEARCH

GOALS:

Support and sustain a healthy research ecosystem.

Increase internal funding to support SBS research efforts.

Align physical and human infrastructure with research efforts, including pre- and post-award services, lab facilities, and data and computational resources.

Encourage place-based, community-engaged, and participatory action research, both in our local Borderlands and in global settings.

Facilitate opportunities for interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral, and translational research collaborations.

Increase SBS participation in the human dimensions of UArizona grand challenge priorities and interdisciplinary convergence research initiatives.

Advance additional clusters of college-wide research strength (for example, but not limited to: computational social science; research on justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging; human rights; area studies, historical, and language research).

Leverage SBS and RII centers and institutes and external partnership networks to advance collaboration.

Recognize and reward public, applied, and translational scholarship and creative endeavors through annual review and promotion and tenure processes.

Communicate and celebrate the value and impact of SBS research.

Encourage and support researchers to engage in public scholarship and to tell the stories of their discoveries and impacts.

Increase nominations of SBS faculty and research staff for prestigious awards.

Connect With Our Community

GOALS:

Seek opportunities to increase our community impact as a diverse college in an Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Borderlands region, particularly around issues associated with arid lands; environmental resilience; migration; and inequity, representation, and justice.

Provide opportunities for students to engage as meaningful partners in community engagement activities and micro grants for faculty to facilitate this engagement.

Increase engagement with tribal nations through community-based programming, micro campuses, and collaboration that respects sovereignty of each Nation and Native knowledge.

Support the continuation of SBS Community Classroom and integration into our broader educational mission on all campuses.

Support opportunities for service and experiential learning and for multi-lingual exchanges (virtual and physical) with local and global communities.

Establish SBS’s centrality to university efforts to achieve the Carnegie Community Engagement designation.