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As one of the nation's leading research
universities, Case Western Reserve University wishes to sustain
and facilitate development of the research and graduate programs
which are at the basis of the University's mission of scholarship.
We recognize that the University must, given an increasingly competitive
environment, assess and invest in administrative support, governance
structures, and strategic initiatives in order to encourage growth,
enhance its research base, and continue to develop distinguished
graduate programs.
Through the Commission on Research and
Graduate Programs, we would like to engage faculty, staff, and
students to make recommendations about their perceptions of the
types of and level of institutional changes, which would lead
to an even stronger and internationally even more prominent research
enterprise at Case Western Reserve University. The Commission
on Research and Graduate Programs, working with the Faculty Senate
Committee on Graduate Studies and the Dean of Graduate Studies,
will evaluate the state of the University's graduate programs
and research infrastructure, and will make recommendations about
how administrative structures, policies and practices here might
be changed to encourage growth, and will identify new initiatives
the University might undertake to enhance its research base.
Specifically, the Commission is charged
as follows:
1. To explore possible administrative changes
at the University that would facilitate the further development
of preeminent research and graduate programs throughout the University.
Recommendations can range from budgetary changes to University
and management center administrative policy changes. In particular,
how can interdisciplinary research be facilitated?
2. To examine current levels of infrastructure
and recommend the infrastructure necessary to effect significant
improvements in research and graduate programs at Case Western
Reserve University.
3. To explore other mechanisms that can
be implemented at the University to encourage faculty in their
research and support of graduate students, including changes in
tuition policies, campus life, graduate student stipends, and
other academic and financial strategies.
4. To make recommendations on how to improve
the quality and quantity of graduate students coming to study
and carry out research at Case Western Reserve University, and
on how to improve their educational, research, and student life
experiences while they are here. In addition to discussions with
faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University,
the commission will have resources to visit other major research
institutions to explore how research is fostered at those institutions,
and to examine which features, if any, might be adopted here.
Lawrence Krauss, the Ambrose Swasey Professor
and chair of Physics, has agreed to chair the commission. Final
recommendations are expected in March 2003.
Members of the commission include: John
Angus, Kent Hale Smith Professor, chemical engineering; Mark Coticchia,
vice president, research and technology management; Pamela Davis,
professor, pediatrics; Susan Helper, professor, economics; Brian
Hock, postdoctoral fellow, human genetics; Kimberly Hyde, graduate
student, art history, and president, Graduate Student Senate;
Lenore Kola, professor of social work and dean of graduate studies;
Shirley Moore, associate professor and associate dean for research,
Bolton School of Nursing; John Nilson, John H. Hord Professor
and chair, pharmacology; John Orlock, Samuel B. and Virginia C.
Knight Professor of Humanities; Hunter Peckham, professor, biomedical
engineering; Sandra Russ, professor, psychology; Lawrence Sayre,
Frank Hovorka Professor and chair, chemistry; Lynn Singer, (ex
officio), professor of pediatrics and interim provost; Aaron Weinberg,
associate professor, dentistry; Michael Weiss, Dale H. Cowan-Ruth
Goodman Blum Professor and chair, biochemistry; and Kathleen Wells,
associate professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
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