RESEARCH AGENDA
Research Priority Areas
Studies that UB faculty or personnel intend to pursue necessitate consonance with the subsequent themes primarily to address prevailing concerns and to sustain perpetual advancement of the University as well as of the community.
INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHES
ACCREDITATION-RELATED RESEARCHES
SDG 17 GOALS
INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHES
- Effective international advertising, marketing and recruitment strategies
- Implementation and effectiveness of university policies towards internationalization
- Competence and performance of faculty and personnel in the institution at par with Global standards
- Organization development/climate/culture in a diverse learning environment
- Development and utilization of systems software to facilitate university and departmental operations, systems and procedures
- Boosting the enrolment and population of the university for local and international students
- Evaluation of services rendered to clientele leading to very satisfactory ratings.
- Internationally aligned curricula of programs in the university
- Innovative teaching strategies and classroom management
- Correlation studies on student’s performance
- Service quality of SPS, academic and non-academic offices
- Linkages, partnerships, and OJT programs as tools for ensuring employment of graduates
- Promotion and support of health welfare of stakeholders
- Community researches with local, national and world impacts
- Researches that address the objectives of the different schools/departments and offices
- Researches that addresses the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals
*Other institutional research priority areas are addressed in the accreditation-related researches
ACCREDITATION-RELATED RESEARCHES
AREA I – PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES
- involvement of the employees and students in university-wide, school-based and community activities
- awareness of and acceptance of the stakeholders and the community of the VMO of the university
- tracer studies (employability of graduates, performance of graduates in the field)
- awareness of the employees and students on university policies
- Internationalization of higher education
AREA II – FACULTY
- work load studies
- needs analysis (professional development, health, economic/retirement….)
- grievance measures
- competitiveness of fringe benefits and other pays
AREA III – INSTRUCTION
- assessment practices
- curriculum enhancement strategies
- teaching methods
- holistic development of students
- research skills of students
- classroom management practices
- records management practices
- performance of instruction functions
- correlation between professional development and teaching competence
AREA IV – LIBRARY
- involvement of the library staff in the academic/curricular concerns of students and faculty
- staff development program
- expenditures of the library
- utilization of library resources
- information dissemination practices of the library
- service quality
AREA V – RESEARCH
- research review procedures
- review of research outputs of faculty and students
- research training needs assessment
- research utilization
AREA VI – LABORATORY
- safety measures
- conditions of facilities and equipment to the academic needs of the students and faculty and to global Standards
AREA VII – PHYSICAL PLANT AND FACILITIES
- anatomy of infrastructures vis-à-vis acceptable standards
- safety measures
- capacity to address academic needs and those of the surrounding community
- alternative measures in the absence of needed facilities and equipment
AREA VIII – STUDENT SERVICES
- responsiveness to students’ needs
- SPSS infrastructures
- service quality of different units
- involvement of personnel in policy making, curricular enhancement
- programs for holistic development of students
- data utilization
- coordination between and among offices
- post graduation services
- student assistance programs
- competence of staff
- student policy implementation
- exercise of student rights
AREA IX – SOCIAL ORIENTATION AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- social orientation programs
- community involvement of students
- community needs analysis
- partnership between the school and the community
- responsiveness of outreach activities
- relationship between instruction and outreach activities
- involvement of the employees in outreach activities
- processes in developing community relations
- development of assessment and evaluation tools
AREA X – ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
- communication processes
- task designation
- relations between and among members of the organization
- linkages/partnerships with public/private sectors
- policy implementation
- collaborations in decision-making
- employee – student relations
- admission and retention strategies/processes
SDG 17 GOALS
