Office for Faculty

Join the Office for Faculty for the second annual tabling event promoting faculty wellness and community building. Learn more about different resources and programs available on campus.  

The Chairs Seminar Lunch Series is a time for professional development, information sharing, and cross-collaboration for academic chairs and program/school directors. While occasionally informational this series will have a strong emphasis on understanding processes and collaborative problem-solving.

The Faculty Life series is designed to provide useful information for personal and professional growth for all faculty (career line and tenure line). These informal zoom meetings take place the first Wednesday of each month from 9:00am - 10:00am.

Each Fall, the University of Utah hosts a Faculty Soiree for new faculty, so that they can meet both each other and faculty from around campus, as well as key university leaders.

This in-person lunch provides Academic Leaders the opportunity to hear from and interact with Campus Leadership including President Taylor Randall, Provost Mitzi Montoya, and SVP Mike Good.

The Essential Faculty Resource Spotlight Series is a quarterly series hosted by the Office for Faculty spotlighting different essential resources for faculty across campus.

This workshop is for faculty members in their first or second year post-tenure. Topics include writing External Evaluation Letters, serving on RPT committees, pursuing and rethinking your research agenda, service loads, mentorship of junior faculty, and other topics of interest to the group.

The Chairs Seminar Lunch Series is a time for professional development, information sharing, and cross-collaboration for academic chairs and program/school directors. While occasionally informational this series will have a strong emphasis on understanding processes and collaborative problem-solving.

This is a year-long working group for first term deans at which we share ideas, strategies, and struggles. It combines how-tos and leadership development. While designed with new deans in mind, all deans are welcome to join when topics are relevant.

The Emerging Leaders Program is designed for tenure-line Associate Professors who are not currently in leadership positions but are interested in pursuing leadership in the future. In this program you will explore personal strengths, discuss how to handle conflict, and learn more about how to BE a leader, even before your next promotion. For more […]

This series provides a forum through which to build infrastructure and share best practices regarding several Associate Dean for Faculty responsibilities, including faculty conduct, RPT, Career-line Faculty reappointments and promotions, and grade complaints and academic misconduct appeals.

The Faculty Life series is designed to provide useful information for personal and professional growth for all faculty (career line and tenure line). These informal zoom meetings take place the first Wednesday of each month from 9:00am – 10:00am.