What We Do
Budget & Data Management
We work across the university to strategically develop resources including the TAMU by Numbers initiative and expenditures management, startup and vacant faculty lines tracking and management, strategic relationships - Academic and Business Performance Analytics (ABPA) team.
Primary Contact: Michelle Mitchell
Team: Teresa Wright, Mahmut Gundogdu, Amy Caldwell
Dual Career
The Dual Career Program assists in maximizing employment opportunities for the partners of current and/or prospective Texas A&M faculty members. The program serves to help balance the conflicting demands of personal and professional transitions, and each client is provided a personalized acclimation experience to Aggieland.
Primary Contact: Dea Polk
Team: Carolyn Allen
Faculty Aspiring Academy
Purposed with cultivating future leaders through individual and organizational skill building, the Faculty Aspiring Academy is a strategic faculty development initiative.
Primary Contact: Heather Lench
Team: Carolyn Allen
Faculty Awards & Recognition
To maintain an environment where our faculty are valued and their success elevated, Faculty Affairs showcases and curates faculty achievements while coordinating resources for faculty to position themselves for future awards and recognition.
Primary Contact: Heather Lench
Team: Amy Wyer, Michael Johnson
Faculty Communications
As a function of the Division of Marketing & Communications, the Faculty Communications team serves to facilitate all faculty-direct communication and amplification of faculty achievements.
Primary Contact: Diane Oswald
Team: Heather Lench, Katelyn Iselt, Paul Hill II
Faculty Development & Internal Awards
We oversee faculty and academic leadership development, faculty development leave and internal faculty recognition.
Primary Contact: Dr. Heather Wilkinson
Team: Christoff Marshall, Amy Wyer, Melanie Schilling
Faculty Evaluation / Promotion & Tenure
Oversight of faculty related guidelines and SAPS revision and development, oversight of faculty evaluation processes, oversight of promotion & tenure processes, management of Interfolio/F180 and RPT systems, liaison with Human Resources & Organizational Effectiveness in faculty matters.
Primary Contact: Lona Warren
Team: Rebecca Baker, Kathy Beladi
Faculty Hiring & Employment Actions
Direct academic unit advisement on faculty employment procedures, hiring documentation review for hiring approval, SACS guideline compliance verification and processing of all hiring requests.
Primary Contact: Lona Warren
Team: Rebecca Baker, Kathy Beladi, Nicole Abinajm, Nicole Padilla, Royce Stengele, Corie Smith
Faculty Issues, Complaints & Grievances
For faculty who believe they have cause for grievance, Faculty Affairs coordinates the availability of an independent/confidential/impartial advocate (Faculty Ombuds Office), mediation processes, along with hearings of the Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility & Tenure and University Grievance Committee.
Primary Contacts: Heather Lench, Mario Rojo del Busto
Team: Kelli Samples, Nicole Aguilar, Kelly Drake
Guideline Review
Works collaboratively with each college/school and their respective Faculty Affairs Council representatives to ensure timely updating and exemplary modeling of faculty evaluation guidelines.
Primary Contact: Michael Johnson
Immigration Affairs
Provides support and guidance to Texas A&M University and its System members as it relates to the employment of foreign nationals, ensures that all international hires' appropriate nonimmigrant statuses are attained and proper work authorizations maintained, provides support to departments that sponsor eligible foreign national employees for permanent residence.
Primary Contact: Mario Rojo del Busto
Team: Erin Pope, Shilpa Hegde, Sahar Zubairy