Additional support, training and mentoring programs, and grant opportunities will be available this fall to help you revamp existing courses or create new courses to incorporate Experience Learning activities.

We are completing plans for two new Honors and Scholars programs that will debut in fall 2017, allowing us to enroll more than four hundred additional honors students and bringing us more in line with the honors enrollment at our peer institutions.

We plan to implement our new system for collecting student feedback about teaching this fall. We’re also creating a new policy for how it used in faculty evaluations.

As one part of our commitment to increasing campus diversity, we are continuing to explore ways of increasing the diversity among our world-class faculty. STRIDE is a faculty-led committee that’s helping us.

Please mark your calendar to join us for fall semester Faculty Pub, which kicks off on Thursday, September 8.

During Faculty Appreciation Week, we’ll celebrate the many ways our faculty go the extra mile in their teaching, research, and outreach.

Responses to our recent survey confirm that you value Faculty Pub as an opportunity to meet faculty from across campus. Using the information you gave us, we’ve planned three Faculty Pubs for the spring semester.

You may already be using ELEMENTS to track your scholarly publications and teaching activity. We’ll soon be adding more modules to this faculty activity reporting system so it will provide you with a comprehensive picture of your professional life.

Our Experience Learning initiative is off to a fine start, and we’re hearing plenty of questions from faculty who are interested but not quite sure how to participate. Associate Provost Matthew Theriot and Experience Learning Director Christopher Lavan provide some information to help you get started.

Our Milestone Review Committee interacted with more than 1,400 faculty, staff, students, and others to develop Vol Vision 2020, the refreshed version of our strategic plan. Your feedback helped us focus on issues we need to improve in our priority areas while also defining the attributes that make UT special.