Excellence in All That We Do

Outstanding scholarship (individual faculty)

- Success in peer-reviewed competitive Federal grant and foundation proposals

- Publication in top (by impact factor and % published) peer-reviewed journals

- Invited talks at prestigious universities and at national conferences

- Citations

- Shows/exhibits at prominent locales, books published by prominent university presses

- Thought leadership (asked to speak to Congress, press in NYT etc)

- Membership on invited review panels

Outstanding scholarship (units)

- Training of high quality PhD students (and post-docs) who are placed in academic positions

- Federal funding per faculty member is high

- Attract high-quality students at graduate and undergraduate level

- Successfully win first-choice highest quality hires

- Large multi-PI grants awarded (such as recent EFRC)

- Units receive high-ranking (NRC, USN&WR)

Academic Rigor

- Challenging and engaging curriculum

o Discovery learning

o Capstones

o Interactive

o Problem-based

o Frequent mandatory student performance (tests, talks, papers)

- Good outcomes measures – VSA criteria, critical thinking etc.

- Intensive writing as scholarship (one course per year?)

- Oral and visual communication skills

- Experiential learning

o Research

o Service Learning

o Study away

o Internships co-ops

- Course GPA’s commensurate with student quality

- Students winning prestigious national awards (Rhodes, Marshall etc.)

- Students accepted into top graduate programs

- Students placed in good jobs