1.5: Integrated Research and Teaching

Facilitate the integration of research and teaching

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Undergraduate education occupies a central place in the vision of Duke University and expectations for our faculty. The Faculty Enhancement Initiative must encourage and support the balance between - or perhaps more aptly put, the integration of - undergraduate education and research. For faculty currently at the university, we must provide opportunities, in addition to the normal sabbatical leave, for deepening research, fostering collaborations, learning new methodologies, and creating new courses within and across schools. Through use of strategic resources, several university-wide institutes, such as the Social Science Research Institute, are developing faculty fellows programs. Such collaborative programs impact research through joint grant proposals and interdisciplinary work, as well as advance curricular offerings through development of new first-year Focus clusters and interdisciplinary courses. Technology and its effective educational applications can also serve as the means for creatively integrating faculty research and teaching. Expanded use of educational technology allows faculty to bring their own, real-world research projects, data, and experiences into the classroom, thereby strengthening their ownership of the teaching enterprise and making it more personally meaningful. Technology connects students more directly to faculty scholarship, fostering greater engagement with the culture of research. We seek to pursue thoughtful applications of educational technology and to lessen the view - and rewards for the view - that research and teaching are separate and competing endeavors.

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