Faculty research

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington acknowledges the essential role of research, scholarship, and artistic achievement in vitalizing the teaching of its faculty. Competent teachers must be conversant with current developments in the field to anticipate future concerns of students and to inculcate in them, by their own example, the spirit and methods of inquiry. Faculty members' efforts to broaden their understanding through habitual inquiry and the publication of their findings enhance their power of articulation of ideas; similarly, student participation in a faculty mentor's research is an important part of the educational process. The university also recognizes the contributions of active and productive scholars toward attracting and holding an excellent faculty and student body.

To serve the members of both the university community and the broader community through the advancement of understanding, and to deepen its commitment to excellence in teaching, this university is committed to the encouragement and support of research and other creative and scholarly pursuits by its faculty and students.