Unit Plans

Expand the number and impact of UCI faculty

  • Grow UCI’s research and teaching capacity by 250 additional faculty over the next five years
  • Acknowledge, reward, and retain our best current faculty by using salary incentives to keep UCI competitive with outside offers; establish campuswide and school-based committees to nominate candidates for major awards, fellowships, academies, and other honors; and maintain a supportive campus climate
  • Extend innovative and high-impact hiring procedures to recruit extraordinary individuals or teams whose presence will have a catalytic effect on UCI’s reputation and impact
  • Develop new interdisciplinary faculty hiring programs that make the most of existing strengths in one or more units and have promise for significantly elevating the profile of these areas
  • Develop alternate academic personnel review pathways for interdisciplinary faculty

Expand the number and impact of UCI faculty

  • Grow UCI’s research and teaching capacity by 250 additional faculty over the next five years
  • Acknowledge, reward, and retain our best current faculty by using salary incentives to keep UCI competitive with outside offers; establish campuswide and school-based committees to nominate candidates for major awards, fellowships, academies, and other honors; and maintain a supportive campus climate
  • Extend innovative and high-impact hiring procedures to recruit extraordinary individuals or teams whose presence will have a catalytic effect on UCI’s reputation and impact
  • Develop new interdisciplinary faculty hiring programs that make the most of existing strengths in one or more units and have promise for significantly elevating the profile of these areas
  • Develop alternate academic personnel review pathways for interdisciplinary faculty

Make pervasive the impact of art, culture, creative expression, and humanistic inquiry on our broader research and educational missions

  • Grow arts engagement initiatives to more prominently spread UCI arts events and performances across campus and throughout the region
  • Increase opportunities for arts and humanities scholars to engage and collaborate with colleagues campuswide on research and academic initiatives
  • Pursue opportunities to develop art collections and exhibition spaces to house them, and identify and secure new performance venues
  • Use visiting scholar programs to bring prestigious and highly visible thinkers to campus and to engage them with UCI on a continuing basis

Expand the number and impact of UCI faculty

  • Grow UCI’s research and teaching capacity by 250 additional faculty over the next five years
  • Acknowledge, reward, and retain our best current faculty by using salary incentives to keep UCI competitive with outside offers; establish campuswide and school-based committees to nominate candidates for major awards, fellowships, academies, and other honors; and maintain a supportive campus climate
  • Extend innovative and high-impact hiring procedures to recruit extraordinary individuals or teams whose presence will have a catalytic effect on UCI’s reputation and impact
  • Develop new interdisciplinary faculty hiring programs that make the most of existing strengths in one or more units and have promise for significantly elevating the profile of these areas
  • Develop alternate academic personnel review pathways for interdisciplinary faculty

Growth That
Makes a Difference

Expanding Our Capacity to Improve Lives