Congratulations to our inaugural four mentors for the Colleague Connections Program:
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Virginia Brown (Dept of Population Health)
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MJ Johns (School of Design and Creative Technologies)
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Monica Milonovich (Nutritional Sciences)
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Amy Kristin Sanders (School of Journalism)
These four facilitators completed the Effective Online Teaching course through ACUE, acquiring expert pedagogy training and showing a great deal of tenacity. They have agreed to work with faculty new to UT to help them assimilate to UT Austin and feel part of the community.
The Colleague Connections Program, initiated through funding from the Center for Teaching and Learning, is designed to be an informal interdisciplinary mentoring circle of 4-5 new UT faculty facilitated by an experienced faculty member. They meet a few times a semester to help faculty new to UT develop a supportive community of peers, create a safe space to ask questions, become more familiar with culture of UT, share information about resources/opportunities at UT, and create interdisciplinary conversations.