Faculty Research Council
Mission Statement
To provide a forum for faculty and staff to have input relating to the policies and procedures of the university as they relate to externally funded research and sponsored programs. The Faculty Research Council will also serve as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research and sponsored projects involving different segments of the university and will offer guidance as to where fellow researchers and administrators may find funding for projects through contact and information sharing.
Faculty Research Council Membership 2012-2013
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship
The Faculty Research Council participates in the selection of the Provost’s Award for Research and Scholarship. This honor is awarded annually and recognizes distinguished accomplishments in the pursuit of scholarly activities across the academic disciplines. Please view the Awards page for more information on this honor.
A Report from the “Role of Research” Subcommittee
The Role of Research Subcommittee was created at the behest of Dr. John Gilje, Interim Dean, College of Education and Psychology, and Dr. John Noftsinger, Vice Provost for Research and Public Service. We met regularly during the spring of 2001, as a subcommittee of the Faculty Research Council. We were charged with articulating JMU’s research and teaching mission in a way that suits our unique faculty culture, and for purposes of future planning. Although we each brought different definitions of “research,” “scholarship,” and “teaching” to the table, we agreed that the traditional definitions of these activities did not well suit the JMU profile. We found traditional models to be too linear, and too much a one-way street from research to teaching, with few avenues for application. Traditional models of research and teaching do not capture how exploration (theory, research), expression of results (publication, scholarship) and practice (teaching, application) inform and energize one another. So, we turned our attention to the question of what structure and what descriptors were more congruous with who we are, and who we want to be.
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