Faculty News 04.21.25
April 21, 2025
Academic Strategic Communications
Faculty News is a collaboration between Academic Affairs and the Office of Research. Major contributors include Academic Innovation, Faculty Success, Libraries, Registrar and the Office of Research. The newsletter lands in the inboxes of everyone with a faculty appointment, including tenured, tenure-track and fixed-term-track faculty, college deans and department chairs.
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Exploring generative AI across the UT System. Building on UTSA's March 2024 generative AI conference, the University of Texas System introduced a webinar series called "AI Across the UT System." This initiative brought together faculty, students, and leaders from across the system to explore generative AI's influence on education, exchange insights on ethical AI use and discuss practical AI applications to reshape teaching and learning across Texas.
- Featured Events:
- 4/21: Artificial intelligence capability and funding opportunity alignment workshop
- 4/22: HCAP pedagogical engagement academy - effective use of artificial intelligence
- 4/22: PDF training part 1: working with scanned PDFs and saving PDFs correctly
- 4/22: Climate RIG meeting
- 4/23: Brain health capability and funding opportunity alignment workshop
- 4/23: Adobe roundtable series: embedding Adobe badges into courses
- 4/24: Teaching and learning with generative artificial intelligence informative sessions
- 4/24: Community Solutions RIG meeting
- 4/25: Data Science RIG meeting
- View all faculty events
- Opportunities and Reminders:
- Submit: Clustered & Connected faculty hiring proposals (deadline May 16)
- Register: AIM Health R&D Summit (event is June 16)
- Explore: Well-being resources for students
- Spring Commencement
- University Resources