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1999-2000
Selective Investment Review Committee
Paul
Beck
Committee Chair Professor and Chair Political Science
Rudine Sims Bishop Professor
Teaching and Learning
Jerald Greenberg
The Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor in Business Management
and Human Resources
Barbara Hanawalt
King George III Professor Department of History
Deborah Parris
Professor
Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics
Roy Tassava
Professor
Molecular Genetics
Samuel Traina
Professor
Natural Resources and Geological Sciences
Yuan F. Zheng
Professor and Chair Electrical Engineering
L. Alayne Parson
Senior Vice Provost
Office of Academic Affairs
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Dear
Colleagues:
To fulfill
its "2010 Plan" goal of moving some of its strongest programs into the
top ranks
nationally and internationally, and among
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Beck, chair |
peer public
universities, the university launched the Selective Investment (SI) program
in 1997-98. Under SI, $500,000 in annual rate was to be invested over a
four-year period in each of the selected programs. The two previous rounds
of this competition yielded commitments to invest in the following eight
programs: Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics,
and Psychology in FY99-FY02; Chemistry, History, Neuroscience, and Political
Science in FY00-FY03.
This year's competition (for FY01-FY04 funds) was restricted to eight programs,
pre-selected by the Office of Academic Affairs from a total of eighteen
programs nominated by the various colleges. They involved five departments
(Economics, English, Food Science and Technology, Mathematics, Microbiology),
one college (Law), one intra-college program (Media Arts Technology), and
one inter-college program (Cardiovascular Bioengineering).
The Selective Investment Review Committee was appointed by Provost Ed Ray
in January of 2000 and charged with evaluating the eight programs and their
proposals to select four for SI funding using the following criteria:
• Promotes achievement of academic excellence in the university
• Builds on areas of substantial existing strength and advances
the institutionıs goal of becoming a preeminent research university.
• Has
potential to promote inter-program collaborations and interdisciplinary
activities.
• Contains evidence that the unit has operated effectively in the
past and has a realistic strategic plan, an investment by the sponsoring
unit, and an appropriate set of benchmarks for monitoring progress and
evaluating achievement.
• Contributes
to the university goals of outreach efforts with business, industry,
and the community. In making its decisions, the committee also took
into account the prospects for the program both with and without SI
funding and the programıs diversity.
The Selective Investment Review Committee was impressed with each of the
eight programs evaluated in this year's competition. They are programs
in which the university can justifiably take pride. In the end, we recommended
five of the eight programs for funding, adding one beyond the expected
four because of its excellence and the expectation that another round
of SI funding will not be forthcoming. We are gratified that the president
and provost saw fit to allocate the required additional resources to bring
our total SI awardees to thirteen rather than the anticipated twelve.
Paul A. Beck
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Chair, 1999-2000 Selective Investment Review Committee
Review
Process for the Selective Investment Review Committee
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