Executive Summary

Division of Research Mission Statement

Texas A&M is one of the world’s leading research universities. The Division of Research (DOR) will advance and strengthen all aspects of the research enterprise by implementing an enhanced, integrated, and strategic approach to:

  • Increase communication and enhance visibility with stakeholders to promote the value of research and the research enterprise
  • Capitalize on our research strengths and knowledge to deliver solutions to serve the public good
    • Grow our resources, infrastructure, data, and technology
    • Align opportunities with potential collaborators and research teams
    • Support interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary collaborations to advance research
    • Increase federal, state, and private funding
    • Provide effective research support
  • Build capacity through collaborations and strategic investments
  • Promote creativity and innovation, while ensuring the highest standards of research integrity in proposing, conducting, and reporting research, and promote and facilitate safe, ethical, and scholarly activity that reflects the university’s mission and core values

The Texas A&M Research Enterprise Strategic Plan outlines a wholistic approach to sustain and maintain a thriving research ecosystem. Each element (A – E) correlates to the mission statement above.

A. Environment for Innovation (Foundational for creating and sustaining a culture of creativity and innovation)

  • Knowledge-seeking, Mentorship, Shared responsibility in responsibility and accountability in research compliance
  • Culture of appreciation for plurality and wellbeing
  • Emphasis on service and process-oriented elimination of service barriers
  • Research infrastructure, Internal funding investments, Performance-based budget, Performance evaluation equity

B. Dynamic Community – Stakeholders, Strategic Research Themes/Sub-themes, Synergies

  • Advocating for crosscutting communications on the landscape of the current and future research enterprise

C. Communications Visibility – Basic Applied or Translational Research Results

  • Encouraging continuum of processes for sharing of information, internal and external, to serve public good

D. Texas A&M 2036 

  • Developing a pipeline of scholars, futurists, to envision what’s possible, leading up to the 200th birthday of the state of Texas, and beyond

E. Assessment of Impacts 

  • Setting guidelines for information gathering and sharing, with associated key performance indicators to be developed by stakeholders, establishing meaningful metrics based on results and impacts expected to advance the research enterprise, serving the public good

Implementation plans will include:

  • Strategic planning related to visioning impacts/results for establishing meaningful metrics
  • Baselining with respective units/colleges/schools/centers/institutes, etc. to confirm current state of alignment, areas of opportunity, and new knowledge
  • Establishing efficient communication protocols to accelerate future collaborations and partnerships