The University will continue to promote high quality research. The University is committed to:

1. Providing an environment conductive to research;
2. Emphasizing research, publication and related professional contributions in defining the career expectations of professorial staff;
3. Ensuring that faculties and schools engaged in undergraduate teaching also engage in graduate teaching and research;
4. Maintaining a capacity to respond selectively to new fields of research as they emerge;
5. Requiring national and international peer assessment of the quality of its programs;
6. Collaborating with other universities, industry, business, the professions, public sector institutions and governments, where appropriate to research objectives;
7. Providing information, library and research services of the highest international standards.