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Stephanie Rasmussen and Ericka Robinson-Freeman have earned the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award.

The annual award recognizes educators who best exemplify excellence, innovation, and a commitment to student success. The two Mavericks are among 27 faculty recipients in the UT System.

Dr. Rasmussen is an associate professor of accounting in the College of Business, and Robinson-Freeman is an associate professor in practice in the School of Social Work.

University of ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ System Chancellor James B. Milliken visited UT Arlington on Monday to learn about the University’s far-reaching efforts to secure a safe campus environment for the fall 2020 semester.

Milliken joined Interim President Teik C. Lim and several other senior ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ leaders to learn firsthand about ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ’s efforts to mitigate and prevent the spread of COVID-19 on campus as students begin to return for the first day of the fall term on August 26.

Shown, from left, are Milliken, Dr. Lim, and John Hall, vice president for administration and campus operations.

Tune in for Cheers to the Class of 2020, a virtual celebration for summer graduates at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at uta.edu/commencement.

Need a face mask for your department, research group, or yourself? has the details.

• The University will provide two reusable cloth face masks per employee and one per student.
• Individual employees or students can find cloth face masks at the University Center Campus Information Desk, the Central Library, and The Commons Information Desk.
• Departments or groups can request cloth face masks using the .
• Research groups can receive disposable face masks as needed; use the .
• Faculty members do not need to request masks for classrooms. Disposable masks will be available in classrooms for faculty members to give to students who arrive without one.

ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ has added or updated several policies recently.

is a new policy that creates common, University-wide criteria for assigning titles to non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty while preserving the autonomy of each college and school to establish criteria that will create a career path for NTT faculty through retention and promotion.

is an updated policy that removed the prior list of standards of conduct contained in the policy and instead provides a broader expectation of behavior and references the Standards of Conduct maintained by the Office of Compliance Services and the ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ Principles of Community.

is an updated policy that replaces 11 prior policies that contained ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ’s free speech policy in a piecemeal fashion, making the new policy easier to follow. It also incorporates Senate Bill 18 (SB 18) passed by the 86th ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ Legislature, which guarantees that members of the public are free to engage in expressive speech on public university campuses by converting some parts of campuses to traditional public forums instead of limited public forums.

is a new procedure the provides the processes to comply with ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ’s Free Speech & Assembly Policy.

is an updated policy that provides accurate titles for administrative officers and incorporates existing responsibilities for department chairs/directors.