Pressing social issues require theories and methods from multiple social sciences disciplines. We will improve our understanding of the social world by supporting faculty research and encouraging collaboration.
- Raise funding to provide increased financial support for faculty and graduate student research, including interdisciplinary work
- Create mechanisms for sharing research across the social sciences departments
- Provide increased training, incentives, and administrative support for faculty to pursue extramural, and especially federal, grants
- Raise a permanent endowment for STaRT@Rice
- Increase the number of endowed chairs in the School
- Support continuing education for faculty to update their methodological skills
- Articles & books published
- Citations
- Numbers of submitted and successful grant proposals
- Total external research dollars
- Total internal research dollars (SSRI)