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Questions & Concerns with Academic Spaces

Space is fundamental to our teaching, research, and service mission. Issues with classrooms, such as climate control, size, configuration, and location, are central to our ability to contribute to student success and quality scholarship.

What are your concerns about space and facilities, and if possible, how can we help? Send questions and concerns about space and facilities issues that affect your teaching, research, and service to

aa-classroomissues@usf.edu.

Advance Your Research & Scholarship

The Faculty Insight Portal is a tool that can be used to find subject matter experts and collaborators, build interdisciplinary research teams, and identify federal funding and honorific award opportunities.

Join us to learn more about how the Faculty Insight Portal can support your research and scholarship.

Excellence in Innovation Award

The Excellence in Innovation Award recognizes exceptional achievement in technological innovation and its transfer to practice, industrial partnerships, and/or commercialization during the fiscal year of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. This award program acknowledges USF’s best scholars and investigators, honoring high-quality research, innovation, and entrepreneurship throughout the university.

Please see the Call for Nominations for full criteria, more information, and the nomination form. For questions, please contact Judi Dorn, USF Research & Innovation at judidorn@usf.edu.

Faculty Senate Awards

The Honors and Awards Council, under the auspices of the USF Faculty Senate, is currently soliciting nominations for the Spring semester for multiple awards. Nomination guidelines and a checklist of required materials for each award are posted on the Faculty Senate website.

Notification of Nomination forms should be submitted to fsenate@usf.edu by December 8, 2022.

Completed nomination packets must be submitted to fsenate@usf.edu by January 20, 2023.

Early & Mid-Career Faculty Workshops

As part of the USF Faculty Success Initiative, we are launching the second year of Early and Mid-Career Faculty Workshops to provide support and resources for faculty. Please join us for these monthly workshops, a full schedule is available here.

Office of National Scholars, A New Era

Previously named the Office of National Scholarships we have recently changed our name to the Office of National Scholars (ONS) to underscore that scholarly development is, and always has been our focus.

ONS’ mission requires a strong base of faculty support to help students with research connections and co-mentoring with us.

To find how you can engage as faculty please visit Help Students be Competitive at ONS@USF, or access our user-friendly referral form to refer a bright young individual at Refer a Student.

Women’s and Gender Studies Seeks Affiliate Faculty

WGS invites all interested faculty from all campuses of USF to join us as affiliates of the department. We are seeking scholars, teachers, and activists from across the university to help support our mission of providing education, research, and practice focused on social justice that comes from a feminist and/or gender studies perspective.

If you are interested in being part of that community in a formal way, please take a few minutes to download and complete the application and USF’s affiliation form.

Faculty Success Events

Teaching on Eggshells: Navigating Florida’s Political Climate on State University Campuses

Hosted by Scholar Strategy Network (SSN)

Legislation passed in Florida in recent years has implications for Florida scholars. Join us and our three speakers to discuss how HB 7 and other state initiatives impact teaching and research, with time for your questions. Register Here.

View more events on the Faculty Success Calendar.

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For real-time updates and resources, visit the Faculty Success website.