Strategic Planning Update

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Strategic Planning Update

• University Senate
• February 3, 2003

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Strategic Areas of Focus

• People (Compensation and Rewards, Faculty, Staff,
  Diversity)
• Education and Research
• Community
• Resources and Leadership

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Initiative 2 Education and Research

• Strategy Areas
• Education
• Research
• Interaction between Levels and Across Schools and
  Colleges
• Concentrations of Interest and Expertise

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Research

• GOAL Improve the research support services and
  infrastructure to increase levels of funded and
  unfunded high quality research by
• Developing and implementing criteria, systems and
  procedures for "investing" in best research
  support services, physical space and equipment

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Research (contd.)

• Goals (contd.)
• Developing and implementing a financial plan for
  providing adequate start-up, cost-sharing, and
  operating funds to support research
• Increasing the level and quality of pre-award and
  post-award administrative support services

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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Created the Ad Hoc Committee on Research Support
  and Infrastructure to recommend research
  infrastructure improvements
• Created a Presidential Research Advancement
  Committee (PCRA) to set, oversee, and monitor
  implementation and development of a strategic
  planning process for increasing competitively
  awarded, federally-funded research

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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Surveyed faculty to identify barriers to
  cross-campus collaboration in research and began
  to address areas of concern
• Awarded 1.65 M in Wall Funds to support
  development of projects in areas of existing
  strength, to increase competitively awarded
  research funding, and to build research
  infrastructure

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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Wall Fund Awards
• Creation of a Start-Up and Cost Sharing Fund
  600,000
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
  and Engineers 500,000 endowment
• Tulane Structural Proteomics Initiative 200,000
• Neuroscience Center 150,000
• Center for Computational Science 150,000
• Renal and Hypertension Center of Excellence
  50,000

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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Developed new university cost-sharing policy
• Reorganized Office of Research Administration to
  facilitate multi-campus proposal submissions and
  award administration, and strengthen expertise
• Streamlined routing, signature, and review
  processes
• Created a web-based Oracle database of proposals
  and awards, accessible to all faculty

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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Joined federal demonstration partnership to
  reduce research administration burdens
• Financial accounting and grant writing workshops,
  cost sharing training sessions, NCURA training
  broadcasts offered

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Research (contd.)

• GOAL Increase the amount of competitively
  awarded, federally funded research, with an
  emphasis in the sciences and engineering

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Tulane NIH Awards, 5-year Comparison by School
Tulane Fiscal Year
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Tulane NSF Awards,5-year Comparison by School
Tulane Fiscal Year
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Research (contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Sciences, Engineering, and Centers (CBR,
Computational Science, Latin American Studies,
NCUC, Payson)
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Indirect Funds Awarded, Federal 1998-2002
Tulane Fiscal Year
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Research (contd.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
Sciences, Engineering, and Centers (CBR,
Computational Science, Latin American Studies,
NCUC, Payson)
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Indirect Funds Awarded, All Sponsored, 1998-2002
Tulane Fiscal Year
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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise

• GOAL Identify faculty leadership groups for each
  of the areas of concentration of interest and
  expertise (i.e. those areas identified during the
  planning process environmental, health
  science/biomedical, international/area studies,
  urban/community) to inventory current activities
  in each area. Identify next steps to expand and
  find funding opportunities for each area

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• GOAL Develop an ongoing process to identify
  other possible university-wide themes that cut
  across multiple schools and colleges build on
  existing or potential expertise, interest, and
  strength and have the potential to further
  differentiate Tulane

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Held 3 Presidential Symposia in the areas of
  Infectious Diseases (Fall 01), Neurosciences
  (Spring 02), Urban Studies (Fall 02)
• Invited prominent scholars to review areas of
  strengths resulted in the formation of national
  advisory committees
• Formed an ad hoc Bioterrorism Task Force to offer
  guidance to the university and community in the
  wake of September 11 terrorist attacks

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Strengthened existing encouraged new strategic
  partnerships and alliances to promote education
  and research, technology transfer and economic
  development in Louisiana and the region
• Louisiana Gene Therapy Research Consortium
• Tulane Cancer Center
• Neuroscience research

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Infectious diseases research
• National Center of Excellence in Womens Health
• NEH Regional Humanities Center

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Wall Fund Awards
• Renal and Hypertension Center of Excellence
  50,000
• Neurosciences Center 150,000
• Tulane Structural Proteomics Initiative 200,000
• National Endowment for the Humanities Regional
  Humanities Center for the Deep South 200,000

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Concentrations of Interest and Expertise
(contd.)

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS (contd.)
• Center for Computational Science 150,000
• Collaborative Efforts between the Department of
  Civil and Environmental Engineering and the
  Department of Environmental Health Sciences
  474,000
• Center for Ethics and Public Affairs 300,000

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Work in Progress Major Initiatives

• Hire Associate Senior VP for Research
• Continue to build a foundation of start-up funds
  to recruit new faculty
• Continue to increase competitively awarded
  funding
• Continue to improve research infrastructure
  (space, equipment, graduate student support, IT,
  libraries)

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Work in Progress Major Initiatives

• Continue to enhance the effectiveness of
  post-award research administration
• Create more opportunities to honor and recognize
  research productive faculty
• Expand technology transfer and business
  development opportunities

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