Provost’s Academic Leadership Fellow

Completed Initiative 2022

The Executive Vice President and Provost’s Office is offering a leadership development opportunity for a professional-track (non-tenure-track) faculty member. This Provost’s Academic Leadership Fellow will collaborate with members of the Provost’s Faculty Affairs team to lead campus-wide efforts focused on career development mentorship for professional-track faculty.

For this fellowship, the Faculty Affairs team is seeking a professional-track faculty member at the rank of associate professor (or senior lecturer) or higher who is currently employed full-time at UT Austin. Preference will be given to professional-track faculty candidates who have worked full-time at UT for at least two consecutive academic years (after factoring out personal leave semesters).

The selected fellow will benchmark and curate professional-track faculty mentoring resources and help design and create professional-track faculty mentoring resources, initiatives and opportunities for campus. In this work, the Fellow will collaborate with the Faculty Affairs and Diversity teams in the Provost’s Office as well as with other groups in the institution and in our college and schools. The Fellow will be eligible for one month’s summer salary and one course release to offer them time to dedicate to their work in this role.

The selected fellow will benchmark and curate professional-track faculty mentoring resources and help design and create professional-track faculty mentoring resources, initiatives and opportunities for campus. In this work, the Fellow will collaborate with the Faculty Affairs and Diversity teams in the Provost’s Office as well as with other groups in the institution and in our college and schools. The Fellow will be eligible for one month’s summer salary and one course release to offer them time to dedicate to their work in this role.

Interested senior full-time professional-track faculty members who meet the qualifications listed above should submit a single PDF consisting of a
  • short curriculum vitae (not longer than four pages) and a
  • brief letter of interest (not longer than three pages) that
    • describes the candidate’s relevant experiences, working style and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusivity, and includes
    • an overview of the candidate’s ideas for what they might do in this role in support of professional-track faculty mentoring at UT-Austin.
    • The letter should also explain the anticipated impact of this leadership experience on the candidate’s own professional development and why the candidate is interested in this opportunity.
Applications Closed.