This plan sets out the Arts faculty’s goals and strategies and identifies new opportunities for research excellence, transformative learning, local and global engagement, and collaboration.
Commitment
The faculty is dedicated to making itself the top Arts faculty in Bangladesh and within the top 200 in the world over the next 10 years. To accomplish this, it must support current practices while enhancing the programs and research, especially in four core areas: Research Excellence, Transformative Learning, Local and Global Engagement, and People and Places. Arts faculty can facilitate interdisciplinary research and teaching, and provide the students with the resources needed to achieve success and effect change in the world.
Responsibility
The faculty recognizes the responsibility to the students and the people of Bangladesh to provide high-quality, high-impact, and accessible education as well as leading-edge research, knowledge mobilization, public scholarship, and opportunities for lifelong learning.
Impact
As the leading Arts faculty in Bangladesh, its global reach, intercultural expertise, and international connections can bring innumerable economic, cultural, and social advantages to the country, including the training of subsequent generations to engage globally and contribute to a diverse environment. An Arts degree remains the best passport to career flexibility and is a powerful tool in the life-readiness of our students.
Research Excellence
DU Arts is internationally renowned for research in the humanities, professional schools, and creative and performing arts. As a research-intensive faculty, Arts is a leader in the creation and advancement of knowledge and understanding.
Strategy 1: Research Culture
Goal: Strengthen its position as Bangladesh’s leading Humanities Research University and build on the strong foundation of the diverse research opportunities:
Celebrate achievements; apply for grants; nominate faculty for awards.
Provide better coordination for the nomination of faculty research awards and prizes and enhance recognition of research and award success.
Increase the number and quality of grant applications through enhanced administrative support.
Improve tracking of research successes and publications. Create capacity to provide analytics on publications, awards, and citations.
Provide Dean of Arts Research Awards (semester buy-outs) for research projects.
Improve support for different centers and funded chair ships and professorships.
Strategy 2: Collaborative Research
Goal: Invest in and support collaborative research practices across the Faculty of Arts, the university, and with local and global partners.
Encourage faculty members to form and strengthen research networks, collaborations, and clusters for support.
Inaugurate a Public Humanities Hub for external-facing humanities research and seek parallel support to the DU research cluster program for humanities researchers.
Develop mechanisms to support centers, virtual and otherwise, that further Arts collaborations and support departments that have interdisciplinary connections within their units.
Strategy 3: Knowledge Mobilization
Goal: Create and mobilize knowledge exchange beyond the academy.
• Encourage greater participation in innovation initiatives both within and external to the university. Enhance feedback loops to public and private sector employers.
• Seek funding to expand the Institute for Future Legislators into a national network.
• Support the development of Arts-based scholarly journals.
• Use the Dean of Arts Lectures to reinforce grassroots interdisciplinary research initiatives from the faculty.
• Continue to encourage, celebrate, and showcase the impact of our public scholarship through communications and storytelling.