Welcome to the Faculty Senate

Monday, December 3, 2018 - This past week, faculty have received an email from the University Coordinating Commission (UCC) for input and feedback to the draft 2019 Faculty Handbook. The purpose of the UCC is to facilitate discussion throughout the university community on proposals that have been formulated but not yet approved/implemented. In finalizing the draft that will be presented to the Provost and President, we are asking you to provide your input.  Please respond to the email message from the UCC'S Faculty Handbook Revision Committee for guidelines on reviewing the draft 2019 Faculty Handbook. The UCC welcomes all feedback and suggestions.  Please send all suggested edits to UCC Staff Support Jeanette Morales (UCC@uh.edu) no later than December 3, 2018.

November 2018 - Learn more about the UH Libraries; UH Libraries includes the MD Anderson Library, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design and Art Library, the Music Library and the new Health Sciences Library.  This month's focus in our WHAT WHERE HOW library awareness campaign is on research services. UH Libraries has expanded its offerings in the research lifecycle, providing support in planning, conducting and communicating research. With UH Libraries' services, you can identify sources of data, including proprietary datasets; access data analysis and visualization software; and share your research data with broader audiences via Cougar ROAR and other repositories,  to name but a few of our many options.  Click here to find out more.

Fall 2018 Dates & Locations (12:00 pm - 4:00 pm) - University of Houston students, staff and faculty will be able to shop for locally sourced and produced food items without having ot leave campus at the UH Farmers Market! Cougar Cash is accepted!  The remaining Fall 2018 dates & locations are as follows: November Dates (November 14 at Butler Plaza and November 28 at Lynn Eusan Park).  All Farmers Markets will be held on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm.  Click here to find out more.

Friday, December 21, 2018  - We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the Empower Women's Leadership Conference (Friday, March 1, 2019).  The Empower Conference connects women through learning leadership, and experience - creating a community of leaders empowered through education focused on women and gender issues.  One of the major goals of the Empower Conference is to expose emerging student leaders to impactful leaders in the UH community.  The 2019 conference will also have a faculty and staff track focusing on engagin current professionals in continued leadership development.  The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2019 Empower Conference is 5:00 p.m. Friday, December 21, 2018.  Click here to find out more.

January/February 2019 - The Division of Research has announced that funding has been made available for the following awards for the 2018-2019 academic year: (1) Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, or Creative Activity Program (deadline for submission is Friday, January 18, 2019; submission will be email based), (2) Equipment Grants (deadline for submission is Tuesday, January 29, 2019); submission will be email based), and (3) High Priority Area Research Seed Grants (deadline for submission is Monday, February 11; submission will be email based). Click here to find out more.