Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

As Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Robert Granfield is the senior executive officer responsible to the Provost for all matters pertaining to UB’s faculty. He and his staff help facilitate a culture of faculty excellence at the university in the areas of research, teaching, and service.  The primary duties of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs include coordinating the university’s promotion and tenure process; welcoming and orienting new faculty to UB; assisting deans, department chairs, and faculty with issues associated with hiring and retention; building programs to orient new department chairs and improve their management skills; facilitating the nomination process for national, internal, and SUNY awards; and partnering with the Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion to develop proactive strategies for enhancing faculty diversity.

Topic:  Enhancing Faculty Awards

Promoting a culture that celebrates faculty excellence is essential. Nominating faculty for campus, system-wide, disciplinary, national, and international awards in research, teaching, and service helps raise the profile of the faculty and of our academic programs. In this workshop, data from UB as well as case studies collected from other universities will be presented. In addition, we will also hear from campus leaders on what is being done to position faculty to compete for prestigious awards and how to put together compelling nominations.

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN JANUARY 2021

A multidisciplinary team of UB researchers has received a nearly $184,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop a reliable measure of recovery capital, a potentially powerful instrument that could drastically change how clinicians and other health and human service providers treat people recovering from alcohol addiction.

Recovery capital is a broad-based, person-centered approach for treating addiction to alcohol and other drugs (AOD) that considers each person’s social, human, physical and cultural resources.

UB faculty member Peter F. Biehl has been selected as a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE), an initiative that identifies and prepares faculty, staff and administrators for senior positions in college and university leadership.

Biehl, a professor of anthropology who just completed a term as associate dean for international education and enrollment in the College of Arts and Sciences, is among the fellows selected for 2020-21. The fellowship program combines retreats, interactive learning opportunities, visits to campuses and other higher education-related organizations, and a placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single year.

Message from President Tripathi and Provost Weber