A Commitment to Excellence
Howard’s goals include increasing its research expenditures and cost recovery; and raising the profiles of its principal investigators nationally. The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Compliance (OVPRC) aims to improve the symbiotic relationship between Howard University’s faculty, students, and research administration by restructuring and continuously assessing its service-oriented processes.
The OVPRC also seeks to develop resource-based strategies and compliant business models that set the stage for a transformational and sustainable course of research expansion and cost management. Both are essential for capacity growth and increasing Howard’s rankings as a top-tier research institution.
Howard University's Research at The Capstone is internationally known for its exploratory enterprise of imagination, ideas, and innovation resting on transformational values of integrity, responsibility, trust, generosity, and creativity. Research dollars encompassed nearly $65 million in total sponsored grant and contract expenditures in 2008. All this was supported by government, industry, and philanthropy, including nearly $35 million annually in directly-sponsored research and development grant and contract expenditures. Seeding the research enterprise is imprtan and HU is making targeted investments.
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Compliance (OVPRC) fosters visionary initiatives that develop and connect frontier research with emerging opportunities of knowledge and creation. Key areas include managing research finances, maximizing partnerships, ensuring compliance, and leveraging resources.
It is recognized that research projects and other sponsored programs are crucial to the success of academic disciplines and are a potential source of significant revenue for the University. Additionally, it is recognized that through research, the University extends the frontiers of knowledge in all areas.
Howard University is the nation's only truly comprehensive institution with a predominantly black constituency.
Over the years the student body of Howard University included young men and women from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 108 countries around the world.
The student body today consists of 3,450 graduates and professionals and 6,570 undergraduates, a combined total of 10,020.
A faculty of 1,300 is about equally divided among Full Professors; Associate Professors; Assistant Professors; and Instructors, Lecturers, and Adjunct/Visiting Professors.
Howard's faculty of 1,300 represents the largest concentration of black scholars of any university in the world.
The Carnegie Foundation classifies Howard University as a "Doctoral Research University-Extensive."
It is one of only 88 institutions, one of only 25 private institutions, and the only Historically Black College/University (HBCU) with this designation.
U. S. News and World Report, 2001, ranks Howard University 28 on a scale of Best Values among National Universities.
Howard University was recognized as the 48th "Best Value" among National Universities. (U.S. News and World Report, 2005)