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Our Mission

The Office of the Dean of Faculties strives to achieve and preserve a university environment in which faculty feel inspired and enabled to reach their full potential. This office facilitates and observes fairness and equity in the recruitment, evaluation and advancement of faculty and academic administrators. The Office of the Dean of Faculties is committed to academic freedom, shared governance, excellence and the common good.

Improve faculty climate to attract high quality faculty, increase retention, enhance creativity and productivity, and facilitate the advancement of all imperatives and goals of Vision 2020 and the Academic Master Plan.

Improve all forms of faculty evaluation protocols, including their implementation and monitoring to ensure adequate and full consideration of individual faculty merits, fairness and equity, and respect for academic freedom. Texas A&M University cannot aspire to become a leading, world-class university without preserving the most basic tenets of fair play and freedom of inquiry.

Align indicators of faculty excellence with Vision 2020 and the Academic Master Plan with the goals to: Elevate our faculty’s teaching, as well as their research and scholarship endeavors; Diversify and globalize the A&M community; Strengthen the scholarship and diversity of our graduate programs; Enhance the undergraduate experience through exposure to better and more diverse scholarly teachers, and Meet our commitment to Texas by augmenting the relevance, quality and quantity of the service and engagement activities of our faculty.

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