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UH Hilo Strategic Planning

Goal 4: Actions, and Measures

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Goal 4: Advance and Disseminate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities that Address Local Priorities and Have Global Relevance

This goal focuses on fostering impactful research, scholarship, and creative endeavors by engaging community partners, enhancing faculty support, and prioritizing collaborations with local and global significance.

Actions

  1. Community Engagement and Partnerships
    1. Engage Hawaiʻi Island-based institutions, such as the US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, businesses, and other community-based organizations, to increase extramural funding.
    2. Leverage the track record of funding success in areas of expertise to expand the impact of extramural collaborations statewide and globally.
  2. Support for Faculty and Staff Research
    1. Strengthen support for research, scholarship, and creative activity.
    2. Incentivize faculty research and other scholarly activities and service in the local community.
    3. Establish appropriate incentives for generating extramural awards, mentoring new PIs (e.g., workload credits), and undergraduate research, including developing systems that support student-led research.
    4. Prioritize the use of indirect funds to support future extramural awards.
    5. Provide appropriate staff support and streamline standardized procedures for pre-award and post-award processes.
  3. Student Research and Engagement
    1. Establish incentives for research involving undergraduate students.
    2. Develop systems that support and encourage student-led research.
  4. Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
    1. Enhance design and sustainability of UH System research and innovation hubs by contributing multi-disciplinary expertise and extramural funding in tropical conservation biology, environmental science, rural health science, integrative health, indigenous innovation, and data sciences.
  5. Support for KHʻUOK Initiatives
    1. Provide incubator space, staffing, and resources to advance KHʻUOK’s academic and outreach pathways and programs.
  6. Indigenous Research Integrity
    1. Convene a campus committee to collaborate with the UH Institutional Review Board (IRB) to create a process for establishing an Indigenous IRB.

Measures

  1. Total dollars in extramural funds awarded.

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University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo: 2025-2035