Research
Among the core responsibilities that define the contemporary American university are those of teaching, research, and service. Hellenic American University has dedicated its energies and resources to nurturing and placing in balance each of these foundational elements to enrich and renew our own academic community of teachers and learners, as well as the larger society we are commissioned to serve.
As one of the institution’s defining features, research at Hellenic American University is understood as a public good. The goal of our community is to fashion a research agenda that not only promotes the creation of new knowledge, but also improves upon the current social and economic condition. Our identity as a global institution of higher learning imposes additional and varied responsibilities to explore uncharted areas of research and collaborative arrangements with international partners, limited only by the disciplines we choose to explore and the human and financial resources available for any given initiative or partnership.
In May of 2011, a representative group of faculty, in consultation with the University’s Provost, will recommend to the Executive Administration and the HAUniv Board of Trustees a comprehensive five-year Research Agenda for the institution. It is the charge of this representative body, the Research Board Committee (RBC), to propose a unified system by which research, conducted by individual faculty or collaboratively, can be encouraged, supported, and sustained in promoting the development of faculty as researchers, as well as teacher-scholars.
