Week of June 9-13

2025

Virginia Tech: BOV approves faculty promotions, tenure, and continued appointments

During its June 3 meeting, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors (BOV) approved faculty promotion, tenure, and continued appointments for 2025.

Faculty and instructors were recognized for their scholarship, research, and service with promotions to associate professor with tenure, professor with tenure, tenure at the current rank of associate professor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, advanced instructor, senior instructor, assistant professor of practice, associate professor of practice, professor of practice, collegiate associate professor, collegiate professor, clinical associate professor, clinical professor, continued appointment at current rank of assistant professor, continued appointment with promotion to associate professor, research assistant professor, research associate professor, research professor, extension agent, and senior extension agent.

For more information and the complete list of 2025 promotions, read this VT News article. Congratulations to all our newly promoted colleagues!

CETL: Resources and support for faculty preparing for summer, fall course instruction

For faculty and instructors who are beginning to prepare for summer term or fall semester courses, Section 9.6.1 (Syllabus and Performance Expectation) of the Faculty Handbook offers guidance for providing students with course syllabi that effectively communicates information about course content, class schedules, attendance, grading scales, and overall expectations.

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has developed a number of useful resources for helping faculty prepare or update course documents in order to provide students with the necessary information and resources to successfully complete the course. These resources include:

For more information and resources on developing/updating course syllabi, see the Faculty Handbook or visit the CETL website.

University Libraries and TLOS: How to take advantage of Virginia Tech's Open Access Policy

University Libraries and Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) are offering several online workshops throughout the summer to help researchers take advantage of Virginia Tech’s open access policy.

The policy enables authors to legally provide open access to the accepted version (not the journal's published version) of their scholarly article, regardless of copyright transfer agreements, through the university’s open scholarly repository VTechWorks. Open access facilitates the advancement of knowledge and makes a greater impact on society, including economic benefits.

Online workshop sessions are available to all Virginia Tech faculty and staff and are scheduled for the following dates/times:

For more information and to register for an online workshops, visit the TLOS Professional Development Network website or email University Libraries.

Research and Innovation: Information and guidance on impacts from federal orders, actions

The Office of Research and Innovation continues to work with university leadership to review government communications and actions to understand how they impact Virginia Tech’s federally sponsored activities, including research and innovation.

In coordination with university leadership, Research and Innovation’s Federal Agency Updates webpage has been created to provide faculty and research associates with guidance and links to resources and important information on proposals and awards as well as an updated list of FAQs.

Principal investigators are encouraged to visit the webpage frequently, monitor federal websites for changes in proposal deadlines, requirements, or other actions, and to reach out to their federal grant or contracting officer to understand potential programmatic (or research) impacts to their awards.

For more information and recent announcements, visit the Federal Agency Updates webpage or contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

ICYMI: Best practices for Virginia Tech faculty, staff for managing cloud storage

Now that both Google and Microsoft have changed their cost models, essentially ending the era of “no cost” cloud storage, the Virginia Tech community is adjusting to a new normal where storage management is part of our regular work duties.

The Division of IT offers the following storage management tips for employees assessing their individual resources, such as Google My Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, as well as the types of files and data that they need to store.

Use your Virginia Tech storage exclusively for work-related data.
Know the university’s policies and procedures surrounding data storage.
Use shared storage options for collaborative work.
Consider alternative storage options for very large files or dormant data.
Regularly review and clean up your storage.
Pay attention to alerts when your storage is nearing capacity.
Back up important data.
If you are in custody of official university records, be sure you are adhering to Policy 2000: Management of University Records.

For more information and details on each of these storage tips, read this campus notice. For questions and individual assistance, contact 4Help IT Support.

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