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Acquisition, Discovery and Application of Knowledge
Valuing a Life of Learning
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Criterion 4a: The organization demonstrates, through the actions of it's board, administrators, students, faculty, and staff, that it values a life of learning.
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UWM’s commitment to scholarship is expressed in the preamble to the University’s strategic plan, Investing in UWM’s Future:
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UWM is at its core a community of faculty, staff and students engaged in learning, discovery, and creative expression. For the sake of generations of students to come, for our immediate neighbors in metropolitan Milwaukee, for the state of Wisconsin, and for our world as it ventures into the twenty-first century, UWM aspires to become a premier doctoral research university. Our capacity to serve our constituents (students and numerous external communities) is grounded
in our identity as a research university, engaged in scholarship across the campus. This foundation provides UWM with the capability to meet students at the frontiers of knowledge and to engage the surrounding communities (city, state, world) with a robust base of scholarly expertise.
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UWM is a doctoral research university. Excellence in faculty research and creative expression is the expansive and deep foundation upon which the wide-ranging activities of the University are founded. Its scholars reach out to study the world and, in turn, bring the world to UWM and Wisconsin. At UWM, the discovery of knowledge begins with the scholar’s basic commitment to intellectual and creative work.
UWM has had a rather remarkable development as one of only two research/doctoral universities in the University of Wisconsin System. As reviewed in the “UWM Overview,” the University has grown from its roots as a teachers’ college to a Doctoral Research-Extensive university as categorized in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Its successful transition to date has required recognition both internally and externally of the culture necessary for successful research universities. At this pivotal time, UWM’s future success will depend increasingly on:
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Recognition within the UW System of the value of UWM’s research mission to both the System and the state. In this regard, there has been almost singular focus on the excellence of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a leading public research university. But, as recognized broadly, the state’s economic, cultural, and social success can be greatly enhanced by building a strong research university in the state’s major urban and industrial center.
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Recognition within the Milwaukee metropolitan area and across the state of UWM’s comprehensive mission to not only excel in research, but also to continue to provide access to higher education degrees and the lifelong skills of intellectual inquiry for first-generation and historically under-represented populations. This dual role is critical to the region, and it is expensive.
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Recognition within UWM that research and scholarly productivity must be nurtured within the culture of the University. UWM needs to be able to attract and support leading researchers in departments and selected interdisciplinary areas. But the base of faculty and staff participating actively in research and garnering extramural support must also increase.
The sections below provide an overview of:
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The environment for research and creative activity, including the University’s commitment to academic freedom and the research support infrastructure
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The creation of knowledge among faculty and staff, undergraduate students, and graduate students and how their accomplishments are celebrated by the University community
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