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FTNTT Collective Bargaining Agreement on Intellectual Property

The University Research Council’s mission is to foster and stimulate the research mission of the University by studying and recommending policies; recommending priorities for support; recommending faculty research appointments, and publicizing research efforts at the University.  The URC consists of 12 faculty members representing the various scholarly disciplines of the University.

The mission of the University Teaching Council (UTC) is to support and facilitate the teaching mission of the University by studying and recommending policies to enrich and enhance teaching and curriculum development, recommending priorities for support of teaching and curriculum development, recommending faculty teaching development awards, collecting information on teaching and curriculum development, and publicizing teaching and curriculum development of the University.

CTL’s mission is to provide opportunities, leadership and support for faculty development in their scholarly and professional work. The long term aim is to engage these agents of change, both individually and in community, in transforming 91¿´Æ¬Íø University's environments for learning into spaces where all students succeed.

The Center's four main areas of service are to:

• Connect, network, and support continuity in opportunities for professional and staff development.
• Communicate opportunities for professional and staff development.
• Provide advocacy and support for professional development as members work with individual colleagues, committees, and groups to enhance opportunities for long and short-term growth.
• Offer expertise and consultation related to specific areas of scholarship and professional work.

The Center is designed to provide leadership and support for cultivating environments and relationships for innovative and successful learning, for building networks and communities of practice and learning, and for communicating and creating opportunities for professional and staff development.

The 91¿´Æ¬Íø University Institutional Review Board, which is comprised of administrative staff, faculty, and community representatives, meets regularly to review applications for research using human participants. The University requires research training for investigators. 

The 91¿´Æ¬Íø University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee reviews proposals to use animals for research.  The University requires research training for investigators.