UC Davis is a major research university and thrives to the extent that it does value and promote research and other creative activity. As a land-grant institution located in California's central valley and with its historic ties to agriculture, the dissemination of new knowledge is central to its public service mission. Research productivity is not just valued and promoted it is expected, and it plays a key role in hiring and advancement. As the link to the Annual Call and the associated link to APM 210 make clear, "... superior intellectual attainment, as evidenced both in teaching and in research or other creative achievement, is an indispensable qualification for appointment or promotion to tenure positions."

The success of campus policies on support for research are evident in the forty year rise of UC Davis from a relatively small campus with its greatest research strengths concentrated in agriculture and related fields of biology to a large campus with AAU membership and producing first class research across the spectrum of academic fields.

Specific examples of programs to promote curricular and instructional innovation are the Summer Institute on Technology in Teaching and the Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program. More generally, MediaWorks and the Teaching Resources Center provide support for faculty innovation in instruction.

The role of technology in teaching and learning is a component of our educational effectiveness self-study.

Science 1 is an example of curricular and instructional innovation. It also happens to be a General Education course.
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