Institutional Priorities
We provide leadership and support to the campus community through initiatives that advance the academic mission of the university. Working collaboratively with campus leaders and stakeholders, these initiatives support the creation of knowledge and discovery, improve access to resources and support equity and inclusion in all forms.
Provost’s Distinguished Service Academy
This academy will represent a formal organization of faculty members with excellence in mentoring and service to their college, the university, the state of Texas and the nation.
Bridging Barriers Grand Challenges
Bridging Barriers serves as an incubator for interdisciplinary projects at the university by supporting researchers as they are tasked with identifying urgent, real-world issues — and figuring out the best way to solve them in less than a decade.
Current Initiatives
All task forces, working groups and initiatives from the Provost's Office
Faculty
This initiative extends collaborative research and scholarship through new faculty hires. Their interdisciplinary areas of knowledge span the boundaries of academic departments and disciplines.
Faculty
COACHE is a national program operating from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This faculty job satisfaction survey research allows the university to understand faculty satisfaction and climate issues, and compare them with faculty at peer institutions.
Faculty
A 3-year pilot program to support and develop experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates.
Undergraduate
The objective is to help ensure both access and success for all first-generation students.
Faculty
Provides career development, training, and mentoring resources to support faculty members, particularly underrepresented faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.
Faculty
New initiative to help increase the number of faculty who will further UT’s critical goals of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness by attracting and hiring candidates with outstanding scholarly records, as well as knowledge and experience in the issues and practices of diversity, equity and/or inclusion.
Faculty
Partners with leading universities and foundations to accelerate the ideas and public impact of underrepresented thought leaders, including women.
Faculty
Helps faculty members advance their research and scholarship through support for book development and publication.
Faculty
The inaugural cohort of this program will collaborate with members of the Provost’s team to lead specific, essential campus-wide projects.
Faculty
This new initiative aims to support and enable members of our campus community to lead projects that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Undergraduate
The university's commitment to making a UT education more affordable for Texas students with guaranteed financial aid for middle- and low-income students.
Undergraduate
In 2020, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and UT Austin began a historic new partnership to close the gap in graduation rates across income levels. This effort will dramatically expand individualized support services for all Pell-eligible students through UT for Me – Powered by Dell Scholars program.
Previous Initiatives
Enrollment Management & Student Success
College to Career Task Force
Assessed the support and resources provided to students to help them achieve the skills, experiences, and co-curricular knowledge needed to for life after graduation.
Provost Office
Task Force on the Future of the UT Libraries
Engaged the campus community to develop a shared vision for how UT Libraries will support UT’s mission in research, teaching and learning and to identify resources required to best advance the creation, discovery, dissemination and preservation of knowledge.
Faculty Affairs
Experiential Learning Faculty Working Group
Explored questions about how faculty and academic units should be supported in developing, scaling, and integrating experiential learning.