Initial Questions Addressed by the Team
Integrating the Processes of Discovery and Learning
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is renowned for being a preeminent research university that provides students (undergraduate, graduate, professional) with extraordinary learning opportunities. How can we build on those strengths by enhancing the integration of research and learning? Knowledge adds value by being disseminated through learning processes, and by being applied in ways that impact our lives. This theme embodies academic excellence as the core of the university’s institutional mission and is intended to encompass undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.
- How will we enhance the integration of the teaching and research missions in our new “public university”?
- What will be the new view of where, when and how research and learning are done?
- How can we get research findings transferred into learning opportunities in innovative, flexible and timely ways?
- What does the “classroom” of the future look like?
- How are research and learning integrated to best address world problems and improve the quality of our lives?
- How do we effectively strengthen and reward our culture of collaboration and interdisciplinary discovery and learning from classroom to community?
- How can we enhance graduate education through a reexamination of our processes of discovery and learning?