Research and Creative Practice Goals

A 2023 review of the research and creative practice enterprise recommended development of universitywide goals to advance the competitiveness of the university’s research mission. 

The University of Michigan’s Research and Creative Practice Goals are the next step in advancing the competitiveness of the university’s critical research mission. In an effort initiated by the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President for Research has engaged hundreds of internal and external research experts over the last year to develop guiding principles that will inform research strategy and investments for the near- and long-term.

The Research and Creative Practice Goals include:

Infrastructure

We build and bolster systems and structures to accelerate discovery. From a foundation of strong, strategic infrastructure, we cultivate creativity and accelerate innovation – now and for decades to come.

These goals reflect feedback from numerous university stakeholders and a blue-ribbon panel of national research leaders that included the desire for more coordinated and forward-looking strategies.

The goals will shape future research priorities and be used as a basis for new incentives, programs, actions, and evaluations. In the coming months, academic units will be tasked with developing their own plans for how they will meet these goals.