Strategic Focus Area 5: CULTURE & ENGAGEMENT


Augusta University will continue committing to our values and fostering a culture of engagement among faculty, students, and staff across all of our missions.  We will accomplish this through collaboration, cooperation, effective communications, celebration of accomplishments, professional development opportunities, frequent occasions for interaction, and a strong service-orientation.  Augusta University will focus on implementing new and enhancing existing programs and processes to increase retention of qualified research faculty and increase recruitment opportunities

Goal 5.1:

To foster a supportive research culture on all campuses, Augusta University will focus on implementing new and enhancing existing programs and processes to increase retention of qualified research faculty and increase recruitment opportunities. 

5.1.1 Implement recruitment and retention strategies for investigators and key research personnel. (Examples include increased bridge funding and clinicians’ protected research time.)

5.1.2  Foster collaborative research relationships on and between campuses.

Goal 5.2:

To improve research faculty and staff engagement, recognition, and incentives, research leadership will:

5.2.1  Provide opportunities to recognize faculty members for their contributions and accomplishments in research and align them with promotion and tenure to ensure faculty success.

5.2.2  Provide opportunities to recognize students and trainees for their contributions and accomplishments in research and align them with graduation requirements and achievement of successful training opportunities.

5.2.3  Enhance dissemination of research related activities and opportunities as well as dissemination of Augusta University faculty and student notable accomplishments.

Goal 5.3:

To improve organizational communications, research leadership and the Division of Communications & Marketing will:

5.3.1  Provide ongoing opportunities for engagement, sharing, and collaboration among and between faculty, students, and staff focused around research.

5.3.2  Create and distribute newsletters from individual units to highlight research activities.

5.3.3  Hold periodic town hall meetings to highlight research activities and accomplishments.

5.3.4    Enhance the research website and implement a process for keeping the content current.