Des Moines University Vision 2021
This strategic plan for the Office of Research at Des Moines University outlines a vision to cultivate distinctive faculty and student researchers who discover and disseminate new knowledge. The plan focuses on six key areas: supporting research expenditures to enhance capacity and foster innovation, sustaining an institutional culture that values research time and faculty scholarship, advancing grantsmanship and fundable research programs, promoting collaborative research relationships to build scientific reputation, ensuring the institutional research agenda guides investments, and expanding the research curriculum to incorporate critical thinking, ethical conduct, and lifelong learning skills.