The College of Fine Arts offers an annual series of professional development workshops for its faculty members. The workshops range from introductory to advanced and are delivered on topics within all three regular categories of faculty performance (research, teaching, and service).
Academic Year 2022-23 Workshops. Please register here for any that interest you.
New Faculty Welcome; Thursday, August 18th, Noon – 4 PM, DFA 4.112; presented by Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick.
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Canvas Workshop; Thursday, August 18th, 3 – 4 PM, DFA 4.112; presented by Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Technology Julie Schell. Register here.
This is an introduction to using Canvas, the course content management tool used by UT Austin.
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Faculty Development Award (FDA) / Faculty Development Leave (FDL) Information Session; Wednesday, August 31st, 3 – 4 PM, via zoom; presented by Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is an information session about how the College of Fine Arts is implementing two new university-wide funding programs that replace the Faculty Research Assignment (FRA). Briefly, the Faculty Development Leave (FDL) is a competitive application process for a research leave and the Faculty Development Award (FDA) is a competitive application for professional-track faculty to receive professional development funding or summer research salary. Go here for more information.
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Funding My Research; Wednesday, September 7th, 1 – 2 PM, via zoom; presented by Director of Faculty Development in the Office of the Vice President for Research Liza Scarborough. Register here: LINK
This is a panel discussion about finding UT Austin research funding. It will cover internal funding opportunities as well as best practices and tips for tracking external resources, such as foundation and government funding, in a lightning-talk format you won’t want to miss.
Faculty Activity Report (FAR) Workshop; Thursday, September 15th, 2 – 3 PM, via zoom; presented by Interim Director of the Butler School of Music Jeff Hellmer and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is an introductory workshop that will cover what to include in your faculty activity report, how to decide which categories to use for which activities, and how to best represent your publications, performances, creative work, and scholarship in the Faculty Activity Report.
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Advanced Syllabus Workshop; presented as two different session on Tuesday, September 20th, 2 – 3 PM and again 3:30 – 4:30 PM, both DFA 2.402, presented by Professor Andrew Dell’Antonio. Register here.
This is an advanced workshop on how to get even more out of your syllabus.
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Group Meeting of Tenure-Track Assistant Professors; October, day/time/location TBD, moderated by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera. You will be contacted with an invitation.
Faculty Search Committee Chairs Kick-Off Meeting; Wednesday, October 12, 3- 4 PM, DFA 2.402, presented by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. You will be contacted with an invitation.
Research Resources; Friday, October 28th, 10 – 11 AM, DFA 2.402, presented by Research Development Officer of Arts and Humanities Kayla Dryden, Director of Development Alex Christiansen, and Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs Raquel Monroe. Register here.
This is a presentation and Q&A about available grant-funded research support for Fine Arts faculty, including external grants and fellowships, limited submission grants, foundation grants, and internal UT-funded research support.
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Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion Workshop; Friday, November 11th, 10 – 11 AM, via zoom, presented by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is a promotion workshop for all tenure-track assistant professors.
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Adding Prior Years in Rank at Previous Institution Information Session, Friday, November 18, 11 – Noon, via zoom; presented by Tim Creswick, with Q&A after. Register here.
This is an information session to help you decide whether to make use of the university’s new policy that allows you to elect up to three years of service at the same rank at a previous institution toward your time in that rank at The University of Texas at Austin for the purposes of promotion.
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Professional-Track / Non-Tenure track Faculty Promotion Workshop; Monday, November 28th, 11 – Noon, via zoom; presented by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is a promotion workshop for all assistant or associate professors of practice or instruction.
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ALLY Toolkit Workshop Parts 1 and 2; Wednesday, December 7th, 10 – Noon and Thursday, December 8th, 10 – Noon, DFA 4.112; presented by the Gender and Sexuality Center. Register here.
This is a popular, two-part workshop designed to equip individuals to be allies of LGBTQIA+ people. Allyship is practiced both by people who don’t identify as LGBTQIA+ and by LGBTQIA+ people who advocate across communities. People of all identities are invited and encouraged to attend workshops.
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Title IX Basics Training; Friday, January 13th, 10 – 11 AM, location TBD; presented by Director of Education and Prevention Erika Bellingham. Register here.
This is the Title IX Basics Training required every two years of all faculty members. The training will explain what the Title IX office does, how to connect your students with the resources it provides and equip you to meet your obligations as a mandatory reporter.
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Academic CV Workshop; Friday, January 20th, 10 – 11 AM, via zoom, presented by Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs Raquel Monroe and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is an introductory workshop on how to prepare a curriculum vitae for an academic setting. It will cover what things should be included, ordering of categories, and formatting so that your curriculum vitae represents you well and satisfies the University’s promotion guidelines. This is intended for faculty members in any discipline.
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Group Meeting of Tenure Mentors; January 26, 4 – 5 PM, via zoom, presented by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera and Director for Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. You will be contacted with an invitation.
This will be a moderated discussion of best practices and resources to help you be an excellent faculty mentor to a tenure-track assistant professor or other faculty promotion candidate.
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Group Meeting of Tenure-Track Assistant Professors; February, day/time/location TBD, moderated by Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera. You will be contacted with an invitation.
How to Run an Excellent, Efficient, and Effective Committee; Friday, February 24th, 11 – Noon, via zoom, presented by Chair of the Department of Design Kate Canales and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is an intermediate workshop intended for chairs of committees (e.g. curriculum committee, search committee, graduate studies committee). We will discuss best practices for managing a faculty committee, including logistics, interpersonal communication strategies, group dynamics, time management, and follow-through.
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Tips and Tricks for Efficiently Meeting Service Obligations; Friday, March 3rd, 10 – 11 AM, via zoom; presented by Interim Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance Megan Alrutz and Director of Faculty Advancement Tim Creswick. Register here.
This is an intermediate workshop that will share some best practices for completing your service obligations in such a way that they do not consume your entire day. We will discuss topics like organization, scheduling, follow through, prioritization, and boundary setting
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