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Strategic Initiative II

Serving Society through Creativity, Expanded Research, and Innovations

UTSA is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery. Success in this endeavor is essential for providing the rich knowledge base, innovation, and workforce required to grow and sustain the quality of life for an increasingly diverse and rapidly changing global society. Sharing discoveries through publications, presentations, performances, exhibits, and other creative outlets is critical to fulfilling our role as a premier research university. Building upon a broad research base, five areas of collaborative research excellence will provide UTSA with expanding opportunities for multifaceted research and interdisciplinary research collaborations: Health, Security, Energy and Environment, Sustainability, and Human and Social Development. Additionally, UTSA will maintain a supportive and proactive environment for the development of the institution's research enterprise and other creative endeavors. UTSA has established five goals to advance its research mission.

Goal 1: Create a vibrant research culture by engaging undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff in research, and providing the campus community with incentives and the infrastructure needed for success in this arena.

Goal 2: Increase annual research expenditures on a consistent basis through the strategic hiring of quality faculty, supporting the five collaborative research areas, encouraging multidisciplinary work, and streamlining infrastructure.

Goal 3: Become a premier research university by developing and sustaining high-quality doctoral programs consistent with the five key research areas and the strategic expansion of the current programs.

Goal 4: Generate knowledge and innovations for societal benefit through collaborations with both public- and private-sector partners at the local, national, and international levels.

Goal 5: Pursue research leading to intellectual property commercialization so that scientific breakthroughs and innovations can be transformed into useful technologies and made available to the global community.