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- Research Mission Statement
- In the following text, the term "research" is used as it is used broadly in
academic discussion, to include not only the diverse activities that comprise
inquiry but also the forms of public statement of results of inquiry, such as
publication, performance, or presentation.
It is the special research mission of the Texas Woman's University:
- to support faculty and student efforts to expand the domain of human
knowledge, imagination, and forms of expression, particularly in those
disciplines in which the University awards the doctoral degree;
- to contribute to improvements in professional practice through dissemination
of knowledge and through research, particularly in those disciplines and
professions in which the University awards graduate degrees;
- to serve as a resource and depository for information and knowledge about
women, their cultural diversity, and their particular contributions to the
history and progress of the State of Texas, the nation, and the world;
- to collaborate with public and private agencies and corporations in research
directed toward improvements in the quality of their products and services.
- The mission statement calls for the development of basic or theoretical
knowledge in those programs in which the University offers doctoral degrees. The
test of whether faculty or students succeed in this kind of research is the
extent to which their claims to have expanded the domain are accepted by the
community of scholars through the peer review process, as it happens both on
campus and in the larger community.
- In its master's degree programs, it is the mission of the University to
engage in research to contribute to development of the arts and sciences,
professional practice, and technology, where technology is broadly conceived to
embrace not only physical tools but also social arrangements and intellectual
devices. Improvements and innovations in the services offered by institutions,
such as hospitals, schools, and libraries, are often products of research in
social technology. The test of success in this kind of research is the extent to
which practitioners of professions, arts, and technologies recognize the
contributions of faculty and students.
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