3: Students
Attract the Best Graduate and Professional Students and Fully Engage Them in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge Other Information:
We will strengthen our graduate programs and more fully integrate and support graduate students within the academic community.
-- Graduate and professional students play critical roles in the generation of new knowledge in cutting-edge fields. They
also play an important role in our institutional priority of increasing the "vertical integration" of research, a model by
which faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates collaboratively interact in research teams on pressing
problems. For these reasons, we seek to integrate and support these students more fully in the academic community. Because
of differences between the needs and demands of the different professions (e.g., Law, Business, Medicine), there is no one-size-fits-all
strategy to achieve our goals for graduate student recruitment, training, and development. We do, however, affirm the commonality
of purpose in research-based Ph.D. programs: to educate the future intellectual leaders of society, develop new knowledge,
build bridges between different fields of knowledge, and enhance the intellectual life of university faculty and students.
Accordingly, we will pursue three strategies to enhance the role and development of graduate students:
Objective(s):
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