QUALITY CONTROL IN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES The higher education industry and its sectors are going through “seismic”/ structural changes. 29 Quality assurance is critical in higher education and applies to national and regional universities. 30 Each college and school should annually review research standards and consider their value as well as continuously review and adjust the predictions of what research standards will look like in the future. Research standards will provide specific criteria for evaluation of research faculty in colleges where this does not exist or is not clearly delineated. Focus will be on quality research as defined by each discipline. For example, some disciplines measure quality by the impact factor of journal publications. SHARE INSIGHT Universities are important in the process of research dissemination. Colleges or schools and their faculty will be involved in this process. A proper infrastructure will be developed to implement these complex changes. 31 A communication plan for WT research implemented through each WT college and school will be developed. Built on top of a web infrastructure and in cooperation with the Office for Communications, Marketing and Events and the Cornette Library, these repositories will regularly list all faculty publications, specialized reports and surveys, monographs and related material and research projects for public access.
Metric: Increase local business and industry support of new ideas by 100 percent.
Metric: Develop innovative ways to support faculty in their development of ideas so that publication and recognition of insights increase by 100 percent. Metric: Research standards of each college or school will be comparable to disciplinary peers at aspirational peer universities.
By being in the “connected world” and “connected markets,” dissemination of faculty publications, reports, surveys, monographs and related material will bring academic and research visibility to WT. 32
Metric: Publication rates will be in the top decile compared to peer institutions.
Each research center, along with the college or school and the Office of Communications, Marketing and Events will develop a comprehensive set of messages intended to spread awareness of WT research and its practical
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