Leaders of academic units possess the unique opportunity to directly collaborate with faculty members in every stage of their career. Below are tools to facilitate the growth and professional development of your unit's faculty.
Faculty Recruitment & Hiring
Your work as an academic leader in recruiting excellent faculty creates the foundation of the university, and supports our educational, research, and service missions within the state. Facilitate faculty hiring using the guidance found here.
Follow these steps to initiate the hiring process to ensure successful recruitment of the best candidates, fulfill requirements for hiring, and position recruited faculty for success.
Candidates for faculty positions whose initial appointment at Texas A&M is at the rank of associate professor or professor are eligible to be considered for Tenure Review Upon Hire.
To ensure that faculty members' qualifications to teach are appropriately recorded, department heads must assign the appropriate codes to their respective degrees. Learn more.
Familiarize yourself with the evaluations that occur at each point in a faculty member's career, along with the evaluation protocols and guidelines at each level of the university.
Interfolio is now being used for all Texas A&M faculty annual review evaluations, faculty search, faculty activity reporting, as well as promotion and tenure reviews.
The Center for Teaching Excellence advances the University's goal of providing a transformational education through the provision of innovative teaching and mentoring resources for faculty.
Faculty Affairs presents a variety of development opportunities and resources for each faculty type at Texas A&M. These resources are predicated on professional development, elevation and amplification of the significant impact of a faculty member's work within their academic disciplines.
The Division of Research provides proposal support which includes grant writing workshops and related webinars offered through Research Development Services.
The Division of Research at Texas A&M is committed to promoting and ensuring the highest standards of research integrity in proposing, conducting, and reporting research.
The teaching, research and service activities of our faculty impact our students, the state of Texas and people around the world. Learn how Faculty Affairs helps elevate and amplify faculty impact at Texas A&M.
The Office of Budget and Planning facilitates efficient and effective resource allocation, decision making and strategic planning for the University community and constituents.
The following resources serve to assist administrators, faculty and staff with this process and the procedures related to undergraduate, graduate and professional proposals submitted for approval/review.
Texas A&M’s Center for Teaching Excellence manages the faculty-led and data-informed Program (Re)Design (PRD) model, aimed to assist programs in creating a more learner-centered curriculum.
Student Course Evaluations give students an opportunity to provide feedback to instructors during and after the delivery of a course, including student perceptions of learning and the student experience in the course.
Faculty members who believe they have cause to grieve based upon working conditions, working hours, disciplinary sanctions and/or pay, are strongly encouraged to follow the grievance process outlined by Faculty Affairs.
Although a student may seek such advice from any faculty or staff member, Student Assistance Services has staff members trained to help students who have grievances.
As a manager of faculty, your responsibilities will range from most aspects of recruiting to performance evaluations, career development, and personnel issues. Here are resources designed to assist you.
The Division of Human Resources & Organizational Effectiveness is focused on helping people learn and develop what they need to know and do to succeed in their functional role.
The Texas A&M System-wide Pay Plans are classified and associated with specific job titles, title codes, salary pay grades, FLSA exemption statuses, and job families.
Texas A&M’s Office of Risks, Ethics and Compliance houses a Compliance Program that establishes frameworks for a strong culture of ethics and compliance. Explore their guidelines and advisory services.
The Division of Marketing & Communications at Texas A&M provides a number of self-serve options to answer questions and provide guidance about media, licensing and branding.
