Introduction

Consistent with our mission as a quality regional teaching-based institution, the role of research by the College of Business faculty at Central Washington University is multi-faceted. Continuous research endeavors help the faculty develop and keep an enthusiasm for their discipline while at the same time keeping the individual faculty member abreast of changes in the field. Often, new insight is gained by the faculty member that helps him/her with the relevance and currency of the respective area of study. Research helps to encourage faculty to rise to a higher level of knowledge and productivity while assuring our students and the other CWU faculty of continuous improvement in the College of Business. Finally, research helps the faculty to maintain their position as strong role models for students by demonstrating the ability to write and advance knowledge.

The College of Business is keenly aware of the importance of scholarly faculty activity that results in publications readily available for public scrutiny by faculty peers and practitioners. The intellectual contribution standards of the College of Business apply to the merit, promotion, tenure and post-tenure review process. Faculty members should meet or surpass the intellectual contribution standards of the College of Business. For its part, the College of Business strives to assist faculty in attaining their research goals by the use of numerous incentives and careful monitoring of the research standards.

Each faculty member is expected to show documented evidence of their scholarly productivity by meeting or exceeding the CB's standards of performance for intellectual contributions. The College of Business encourages applied scholarship in all disciplines while actively endorsing both basic scholarship and instructional development.

Research Standards*

Over the most recent five-year period, undergraduate faculty members are expected to make 4 intellectual contributions with 2 coming from Category A and the other 2 from Category A or Category B. Also, over the most recent five-year period, graduate faculty members are expected to make 4 contributions with at least 3 coming from Category A.

Category A

• Refereed journal articles (peer and nationally-recognized editor-reviewed academic, professional and pedagogical journals)
• Research monographs
• Scholarly books
• Text books

Category B

• Refereed proceedings from national, international or regional scholarly meetings (full papers)
• Refereed papers presented at academic or professional meetings
• Chapters in textbooks or book of readings
• Publicly available research working papers
• Papers presented at faculty research seminars at other universities or other academic settings outside CWU
• Publication in trade, in-house and other editor-reviewed journals
• Book reviews published in a journal
• Written cases with instructional materials published by a publishing house, academic journal or proceedings
• Instructional software that is published by a publishing house
• Conference presentation
• Course materials (study guides, test banks, etc) that are published by a publishing house

Adopted by the CB Faculty: April 27, 2001
Revision adopted by the Faculty: March 2, 2005

* Companion document: "Operational Definitions for Academically Qualified and Professionally Qualified Faculty"