Summary

As has been reported to and discussed in the Faculty Council, current UTF and UACT support is being rethought toward the goal of establishing a new university-wide center for research, teaching, and faculty development. We included a note to this effect in the requests for proposals this year. In what then is our final year, UTF attracted 38 proposals from across the University this past academic year and funded to some extent greater than two-thirds of them, and in so doing used all our allotted $150,000.

Members of the Committee

Arri Eisen, College, Biology, Chair

Ken Carter, Oxford

Gary Smith, Law

William Branch, Medicine

Deborah McFarland, Public Health

Marcene Powell, Nursing

Jonathan Strom, Theology

Benn Konsynski, Business

Harriet King, ex officio, Provost’s Office

Funding across Emory

The proposals came from all schools, Oxford College, and more than 20 different departments and programs (the great majority, as is typical, were from the College, Oxford, and the Medical School) and requested a total of more than $400,000. The Committee funded, to some degree, nearly 70% of the proposals to use ~$148,000 of the $150,000 we were allotted.

Next steps

The UTF has served a valuable function at Emory—funding innovative education across the university for more than six years. The UTF committee emerged from the recommendations and insight in former Provost Billy Frye’s document Choices and Responsibilities and from the 1997 Teaching Commission Report. It is fair to say, UTF has served its purpose, and the committee looks forward to, and is willing to serve as an advisory body for, the next steps in our mission to make Emory a destination university for research and teaching.