Leadership

In the Aspiring Leaders Academy, mid-career faculty who are interested in leadership, but have not yet served in a major leadership position, will receive structured counsel from academic leadership experts. Participants will learn about core leadership principles and practices through a structured curriculum. Throughout the experience, participants will interact with leaders from across the UT campus, as well as external experts, to develop their personal leadership style and adopt best practices for building and sustaining successful teams. Participants will also build mentorship relationships among peers in support of their leadership goals.

The Provost’s Distinguished Leadership Service Academy (DLSA) provides a formal organization of distinguished senior professional-track and tenured faculty members with extraordinary contributions and accomplishments across their professional portfolios and particularly in terms of their excellence in leadership, mentoring and service to their college or school, the university, the state and the nation.

The Research Leaders Academy will be run in partnership with the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors (OVPR). This Academy is designed for established principal investigators, who aspire to lead, or who are already leading, large-scale research initiatives. Participants will learn how to scope a large-scale, shared scholarly vision with interdisciplinary colleagues, how to secure external funding to realize that shared vision, and how to successfully implement and manage their vision.

The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program is intended to bring together faculty interested in learning more about academic leadership from within UT and from institutions across the Southeastern conference. A small cohort of UT faculty will be invited to join in leadership development opportunities at UT. The UT Fellows will also attend two three-day workshops (one in the fall semester and one in the spring) hosted by an SEC University. At the workshops, Fellows engage in discussions and development initiatives with Fellows both from UT and from other SEC universities and with academic leaders from across the SEC.

The workshop sessions will include topics central to academic leadership development. Past topics have included strategies for resource management, communication strategies for leaders, navigating government relations, and programming for faculty development. During each session, participants will hear from SEC leaders and engage in discussion with their peers.