The goal of the “Incentivizing HIBAR” Collaborative Action Group (CAG) is to help universities design academic incentive systems that encourage more and better HIBAR research, in turn helping universities better reflect their social contract with stakeholders. There are many ways by which universities and the broader academic ecosystem can encourage faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and other researchers to pursue HIBAR projects. These include revising retention, promotion, & tenure processes, recognizing exemplary work through awards and prizes, and increasing access to research funding aimed at supporting HIBAR projects.
To date, this CAG has focused primarily on efforts to reform faculty promotion and tenure processes, and award programs to recognize exemplary HIBAR projects:
Efforts to reform faculty promotion and tenure processes:
Award programs to recognize exemplary HIBAR projects:
Key ongoing activities of the CAG are aimed at initiating generative discussions with individuals who are in a position to cause meaningful and lasting change, including:
