Introduction to the
University of Utah

Message from the President
 

Dear faculty member:

The success of the University of Utah is closely tied to the educators and researchers who advance its central mission.  This Faculty Handbook has been created to provide you with essential information about the University in a format that is quickly accessible.

Specifically, the Faculty Handbook presents your rights and responsibilities as a faculty member, as well as where you can find solutions to problems you may encounter while performing your duties.  This version is the first to be published in a web-based format, with links to both University policies and web-based information contained on other University sites.  I trust it will be useful to you in all facets of your career here at the University of Utah.

I am very proud of the University of Utah and its world-class faculty.  Our faculty members exemplify the combination of intellectual rigor, engaged service, and teaching commitment that ensures a bright future for this great institution.  Through your work, the University continues year after year to ably accomplish the mission its first chancellor proclaimed: engage in “the diffusion of…knowledge” to ensure that “all people…would be elevated.”

Thank you for selecting the University of Utah as the place to teach and to continue your quest for knowledge.

Sincerely yours,

Michael K. Young
14th President of the University of Utah