Goal 2 – Innovation for Institutional Impact

Metric 1

Percent of research grant awards that are Interdisciplinary vs. single discipline [1]	FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2024 N/A	FY 2025 Benchmark	FY 2029 Benchmark
% of research grant awards that have PIs and Co-PIs in two or more academic departments (i.e., interdisciplinary)	24.7%	16.9%	24.2%	21.4%		25.0%	30.0%

Metric 2

Advancement funding	FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2024 N/A	FY 2025 Benchmark	FY 2029 Benchmark
Total gift income (outright gifts and previous pledge payments)	$15.5M	$21.1M	$25.8M	$30.2M		$30M	$40M
Total endowment value	$121.2M	$161.4M	$141.2M	$149.2M		$160M	$190M

Metric 3

Inventions, patents and licenses (from the Office of Technology Transfer)	FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2025 Benchmark	FY 2029 Benchmark
Inventions disclosure	22	16	13	10	20	28
Patents issued	5	1	8	8	5	10
Licenses / Options / Letters of Intent	19	22	32	51	50	60

[1] Excludes no-cost extensions. Includes new grants only within “research-basic” or “research-applied” types. Represents per-grant, not per-person grant dollars. A new protocol for calculating these measures was implemented in fall 2019 and all data provided reflect this method.