The Executive Committee recommends that the University of Houston Faculty Senate adopt this
joint resolution without modification.

A Joint Resolution of the UH Faculty Senate, Research Council and
Graduate and Professional Studies Council

Whereas scholarship is an essential component of what makes the University of Houston a
        vibrant institution;

Whereas the breadth and impact of the scholarship output from the faculty and students at UH
        contributes to achieving the stated goal of research excellence at the University; and

Whereas information that could help fully and faithfully characterize the scope of scholarship
        output on the UH campus is not available in a single convenient location; therefore be it

Resolved by the Faculty Senate, Research Council, and Graduate and Professional Studies Council
        of the University of Houston that the Provost initiate a Scholarship Report for the University of
        Houston to be broadly available to the University community;

Resolved that the Provost make sufficient funds available to facilitate data collection, analysis and
        reporting;

Resolved that the first UH Scholarship Report be issued before May 1, 2006 and that annual reports
        continue to be issued in following years;

Resolved that the UH Scholarship Report be designed in consultation with the Faculty Senate,
        Research Council, Graduate and Professional Studies Council, departmental personnel
        committees and other interested faculty and student groups to reflect scholarship output in all
        of its forms of the several academic units of the University; and

Resolved that the information contained in the report progress in its breadth and depth over time,
        so that although the first report may concentrate on broadly aggregate measures of scholarship
        output, reports further in time will incorporate an inventory of published research and other
        scholarship and creative accomplishments, as well as a departmental assessment of the
        importance of the research outlets.