UTM's teaching stream faculty promoted
In June, three teaching stream faculty, Judith Poë of the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Barbara Murck of the Department of Geography and Irene Wiecek of the Department of Management, were promoted from associate professors, teaching stream to professors, teaching stream.They are the first teaching stream faculty members at UTM to undergo review for promotion under a new university policy.
The Office of the Vice-Dean, Faculty is having one of their busiest years. Over the next five years as the University of Toronto Mississauga looks to hire an additional 100 faculty members to help meet the needs of a growing student population of over 15,000. This academic year we are conducting 30 searches, to see where UTM will be growing this year. Click here.
These new faculty will join nearly 400 vibrant scholars who foster graduate and undergraduate excellence through ground breaking programming and game-changing research to prepare graduates to meet global challenges.
Learn more about UTM's newest faculty and their innovative research in unique areas such as robotics, forensic biology, predictive data science, Indigenous digital arts and performance, and the history of Islamic art and architecture.
With new hires comes the increase of tenure reviews, continuing status reviews and promotions.This year 10 teaching stream faculty are being reviewed for continuing status and promotion to Associate Professor, 16 faculty will undergo tenure review and 9 tenure stream faculty will be considered for promotion to Professor.The Office of the Vice-Dean, Faculty will also be reviewing requests from 6 sessional lecturers for advancement consideration.
Source: UTM Office of the Dean Newsletter / October 2018
