Recruit, retain, and develop top faculty and staff to be the best-in-class institute.
Aspire to be a destination of choice for top performing faculty and staff from recruitment forward.
Highlights and Success
Sharon Jean-Philippe Takes Over as International Society of Arboriculture Board President
The International Society of Arboriculture promotes the professional practice of arboriculture and fosters worldwide awareness of tree benefits.
Transforming Good Teaching into Great Learning
The Herbert College of Agriculture welcomes the first cohort of the Faculty Teaching Fellowship Program
UTIA Soil Scientist Receives Women in Science National Mentoring Award
As a mentor, Sindhu Jagadamma, associate professor of soil science, helps her students increase their self-confidence and push themselves to persevere through adversity, traits she learned to improve in herself as a young girl from a small town in India.
UT Extension Consumer Economics Specialist Receives National Award
Chris Sneed recognized for increasing consumer economic literacy and stability
Strategies and Actions
UTIA will provide the needed infrastructure to attract quality candidates.
- Increase the quality of candidates applying for both faculty and staff positions.
- Improve compliance with the completion of the six-month probation assessment for staff.
- Increase the percentage of faculty promoted and tenured.
- Develop a process and toolbox to assist faculty with spousal accommodations and employment opportunities in the region.
- Create a process that tracks the time to fill positions.
- Decrease pay gap between market rates vs. actual.
UTIA will establish opportunities for faculty and staff growth.
- Increase the number of employees engaged in active individual development plans.
- Develop opportunities and a pathway for succession planning within UTIA.
- Establish a UTIA leadership program for mid-level leaders.