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
UT Veterinary College Names New Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs
Mallicote returns to UTCVM as an alumna after a faculty career at the University of Florida, where she has served as the Weeks Endowed Clinical Professor of large animal internal medicine and a nationally recognized leader in veterinary business education.
Transforming Good Teaching into Great Learning
The Herbert College of Agriculture welcomes the first cohort of the Faculty Teaching Fellowship Program
Gaining National Attention for UT Horticulture
Plant Sciences Lecturer Amanda Spangler and UT Digital Learning Won Three Telly Awards for Online Horticulture Courses
UT Extension Internship Applications Open for Summer 2026
Undergraduate students interested in community outreach, science and agriculture are encouraged to apply for a variety of 8-week paid summer internships through UT Extension.
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.