1.7: Strategic Priorities
Provide initial support for programs, institutes, and centers that advance university strategic priorities Other Information:
Over the last decade, the University has institutionalized its ability to provide seed support to start programs, institutes,
and centers that deepen our commitment to cross-school partnerships and advance interdisciplinarity. Duke's flexibility to
enable faculty to develop such programs plays an important part in the recruitment and retention of our best faculty and to
the ability of our students - both graduate and undergraduate - to gain first hand experiences in cutting edge research. To
ensure our continued capacity to support the creative energies of our faculty in the creation of future signature programs,
institutes, and centers, we will develop and implement mechanisms by which the schools will assume the support of successful
centers after initial central funding. The Provost's Common Fund and new strategic Faculty Enhancement Initiative funds will
provide sources of seed support for faculty groups interested in developing new programs, institutes, and centers. The Provost's
office will evaluate proposals for new programs, institutes, and centers, in consultation with the Deans, Institute Directors,
and Academic Programs Committee, based upon how the proposed program, institute, or center builds on demonstrated leadership
and enhances the intersections between school priorities and the signature university themes. The number of programs, institutes,
or centers started annually will vary based on the availability of support and commitments to ongoing efforts, will, in general,
be supported for an initial four year period, assessed during their third year, and, if successful, renewed contingent on
the development of a walk-down model from central to school support.
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