Approved by the RRU Board of Governors May 2002.

• RRU will develop and support, as an integral and key component of the University's strategic direction, a program of research activities within and across each of the learning divisions.

• The research program will embrace and integrate the core pillars of RRU - sustainability, leadership, entrepreneurial management, and conflict analysis and management - within the overarching theme of sustainability.

• The research activities will support the University's curricular themes, RRU's focus on teaching excellence and use of innovative instructional models and technologies.

• Research plans will be developed within each learning division and within the Centre for Economic Development and Applied Research (CEDAR).

• Interdisciplinary research across programs will be actively promoted.

• Alliances with outside partners will be sought.

• Cost recovery at a minimum underpins research.

• Research will focus in particular on the economic and social development needs of B.C. and the Pacific Rim.

• Research will complement RRU's international education goals in collaboration and coordination with governments

• RRU research will complement RRU educational programming goal to serve the underserved, that is, to serve mid-career learners through effective use of information technology.