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Item Retrospectively purchasing ebooks to amplify diverse voices and perspectives at the University of Minnesota Libraries(2022-01-20) Carter, Sunshine J; Clarke, KL; Grant, Malaika; Marsolek, Wanda; Nelsen, KatherineItem Transforming the University: Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force on Collaborative Research(University of Minnesota, 2006-03-27) Lawrenz, Frances; Paller, Mark S.The University must: • enhance the value of collaborative research and foster a culture in which it can flourish • provide incentives and recognition for collaborative work • develop mechanisms for bringing scholars together to promote the synergy provided by collaborative work • develop, recruit, retain, and provide opportunities for highly talented researchers to lead and administer important collaborative projects • support educational and training opportunities to make collaborative research understood and accessible to all participants • publicize internally and externally the important findings and outcomes of collaborative workItem Transforming the University: Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force on Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution(University of Minnesota, 2006-03-27) Ekker, Stephen C.; Garner, Shirley NelsonThe Discipline Evolution Task Force identifies the following five recommendations as having the greatest potential for transforming the University commensurate with its Strategic Positioning goals: • Establish a named and high-profile institute, modeled after the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University... to support interdisciplinary scholarship at the University of Minnesota. • Create internal faculty exchanges whereby faculty members work in a department or program other than their own for a semester or two.... • Establish a program similar to the faculty exchange program for graduate students to enable them to develop interdisciplinary expertise.... • Seed and, when appropriate, provide long-term support to new and transformational research initiatives that bring together teams of highly talented faculty and students.... • Implement meaningful systems for assessing existing centers, including the expectation that new and existing centers will close after five years unless there is a cogent rationale to continue them....