Expanding Highly Integrative Basic And Responsive Research To Accelerate Service To Society

Tag: Aligning incentives

Given the right conditions, a research effort can evolve to become a HIBAR project.

Contributions to HIBAR projects are often not valued as highly as they should be by university promotion and tenure processes.

Funders can accelerate universities’ efforts to broaden faculty reward systems.

Promotion and tenure reform requires champions at all levels.

There is a considerable appetite for broadening incentive systems to support societally-impactful research.

The intent of promotion reform is to remove a disconnect by rewarding faculty for efforts that the university already values.

Administrators can accelerate change efforts by signaling their support, loudly and often.

Administrators are very often open to new ways of doing things.

Faculty members want to do the right thing, but often struggle to do so.

It can be difficult to imagine a different promotion and tenure system.

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