Resources

The following are the listed resources currently available inline with ASPIRE2 activities:

UTD ASPIRE2 Mentoring Grant Program 

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The ASPIRE2 Mentoring Grant Program is designed to provide mentoring support activities for women, women of color and underrepresented minority (URM) women STEM faculty at all career stages. Each faculty member is eligible to receive up to $1,500 to implement a project of their own design that engages at least one mentor external to UT Dallas and represents a career development opportunity not otherwise possible without this funding.

UT Dallas supports a faculty “mentoring network” approach, in which relationship building facilitates professional support systems and sustained career development. Mentoring relationships may include professionals and faculty members within and outside one’s school, department or university; senior experts or early-career practitioners; and nonacademic professionals such as librarians, editors, curators or administrators. This flexible model recognizes that no single individual possesses all the expertise needed to support efforts in research, pedagogy and career advancement. This program is designed to complement — not replace — the mentoring support faculty receive within the department/program, school or university.  

Eligibility: Principal full-time tenure-track/tenured women, women of color and URM women faculty members from a STEM field are eligible to apply.  

Proposal Submissions: Particular attention will be given to proposals addressing a mentoring need that cannot be fully satisfied through existing mentoring support programs at UT Dallas. The selection committee is especially interested in mentoring grant proposals that meet the following criteria: 

  • Impact: How does the project address an unmet mentoring need? Is the project likely to be effective in developing long-term mentoring support? 
  • Feasibility: How do the project’s scope and budget reflect realistic, practical and fiscally responsible mentoring outcomes? 
  • Inclusion: How does the project bring faculty together in a way that respects, promotes and encourages diversity? 
  • Replication: How can the project serve as a model to be replicated at UT Dallas? 

Academic Impressions

Academic Impressions

UT Dallas has recently partnered with Academic Impressions, an organization specializing in professional development resources for higher education faculty and staff.

This partnership provides all faculty at UT Dallas with membership access to a host of training resources designed specifically for professionals working in our industry. Topic areas range from skills-based trainings for professionals in all areas of higher education, to leadership trainings on topics such as supervision, personal effectiveness, diversity, equity and inclusion and more. Accessing your member resources is a breeze with SSO (single sign-on).

Please log in below using your existing @utdallas.edu email.

UTD’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
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Center for Teaching and Learning offers support toward teaching effectiveness for all faculty at UT Dallas. CTL provides several resources including workshops and webinars to help faculty improve course instruction, including improving in-class performance of instructors as well as course and curriculum design. Beyond formal workshops, CTL also developed an Instructor Handbook that describes general best practices and teaching tips, school-specific resources and more. Check out CTL’s “Events Calendar” for information about when and where to find workshops, lectures and other activities throughout each semester.

Faculty Mentoring

The Provost’s Office Faculty Mentoring Program facilitates all of the mentoring activities at UT Dallas. In partnership with the Senate Committee on Faculty Mentoring as well as Center for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty Mentoring Program is a robust and centralized program that supports all faculty at all levels of their careers in all aspects of career development.

Presentations on Gender Bias
Recruitment and Retention Best Practices