Research and Creative Activity Committee

Standing Charges:

1.     The Research and Creative Activity Committee shall understand its mandate to be broadly construed in a way that encompasses the diversity of professional, research and creative activities across all schools of the University.

2.     The Committee shall review and recommend policies to foster and facilitate excellence in research, creative, and professional activities across the university.

3.     The Committee shall monitor and recommend improvements to the resources and incentives available on campus for faculty research, creative, and professional activities, including structures available to support faculty access to external funding.

4.     The Committee shall review and make recommendations to the Senate regarding graduate research, including competitive graduate stipends, awards of scholarship and loan assistance, and opportunities for workshops, programs, and other means to train and educate students in grants and other fund-securing research, creative, and professional activities.

5.     The Committee shall review and recommend policies to foster and facilitate excellence in Post-Doctoral funding and operation.

6.     In consultation with the Academic Policies Committee, the Committee shall review, evaluate, and recommend changes to graduate education policies as they relate to promoting research and creative activity.

Additional Charges for 2024/5:

  1. Consult as needed in the hiring of support staff to support research and creative activity, particularly in grant processing and support at all stages.
  2. Review and refine Standing Charges as needed.
  3. Examine double-counting rules
  4. Explore the updates of in the last year.
  5. Impact of full-year scheduling 
  6. Update on STABLE as it relates to curricular issues.