<p>That's what it would take to compete as a top research school.</p>
<p>DailyProgress.com</a> | Can UVa compete in research?</p>
<p>Report has an interesting dept by dept analysis of UVa that was the basis of the article.</p>
<p>Cool. Yes, they should.</p>
<p>Wow, that report was painful to read. Not especially flattering in many of the areas covered.</p>
<p>Not especially surprising, Vistany. Look at the purpose of the report, right on the first page. It wasn't supposed to be a "feel good" report, it was supposed to show where improvement could be made.</p>
<p>If I hired consultants to tell me how to do a better job and all they did was tell me about the great things I did already, I'm be a bit annoyed.</p>
<p>Yes, hands down</p>
<p>I would agree with you if there wasn't so much disparity between how UVa rated itself amongst it competitors and how national entities compared UVa to its competition.
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While UVA is ranked number 24 by U.S. News &
World Report (USNRW)3, mostly due to its outstanding undergraduate program, UVA
ranks only number 47 for FY 2005 in the key research indicator, namely the NSF ranking
of federal research expenditures4, and does not rank in the top 100 on the Academic
Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2006.
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<p>Kindly don't kill the messenger. Comments like; UVa reported it's peer group to be Duke....but the studies findings placed it closer to Penn State are not my fault. Any professional learning community confronts its shortcomings, not spend time defending a less than complimentary consultant. I agree a study should find shortcomings but this report was pc considering the hired gun needed to be kind.</p>
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When departments and their faculty members perceive themselves to be unrecognized by the university's leadership, strategic planning suffers because the main incentives become to protect current, limited assets rather than to seriously plan for the future. This is a serious matter at UVA. For example, too many research-active faculty members we
interviewed expressed no knowledge of, or any particular interest in the ongoing activities of "the Commission" which is currently planning initiatives for the university's ongoing major fund raising drive. These faculty members are dubious of top-down efforts to define research directions with token requests for faculty input.
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<p>Sorry if this hurts some folks feelings, but there not my findings.</p>
<p>Vistany,</p>
<p>Doesn't hurt my feelings. "Environmental Sciences is an example of a highly ranked, well-financed department that knows how to raise research funds and allocate them effectively. " And I completely agree.</p>
<p>"and graduate students feel the environment is too rigid and
diversity in race, dress or behavior is not welcome."</p>
<p>ouch!</p>
<p>vistany, the report is primarily about research spending in the sciences. It's not about the quality of UVA's overall undergraduate education, job recruiting, graduate school placement, graduate programs in the humanities/social sciences or professional programs - all of which are extremely competitive nationally, especially given UVA's historical limitations as a state school.</p>
<p>It sounds like there is some internal work to be done before running off to spend billions.</p>