Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of the Spring semester here at Mason. Here are three things I want to accomplish before commencement:
–Recruit at least two new thought leaders to the Advisory Board.
–Garner foundation support for our doctoral programs. Both programs are now beginning to have real track records (normative time to Ph.D. is typically five years or so) and it’s time to gain external recognition of what we are doing in interdisciplinary graduate education and research training.
–Double the number of proposals for sponsored research funding over the same period last year. At the same time, we’ll move towards diversification of our grants portfolio–I would like to also double the number of agencies and foundations that we submit grants to.
Jim
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