2026 Highlights

Across our Academic Enterprise, 2026 has been a remarkable year. We are proud to share these significant highlights from the Provost's Office and Academic Services areas. Each month we will share more of these areas' major achievements, leading up to the release of our FY26 Provost's Report.

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Interprofessional Continuing Education

The office strengthened its continuing education reach in FY26 by accrediting 26 series and 21 conferences or single events.

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AE Office of Wellness

In its first year, the newly redesigned Office of Wellness organized 28 programs and events, reaching more than 2,000 faculty, students, and staff.

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Health Education Center

The HEC achieved full accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in the additional areas of Human Simulation and Research.

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Moody Medical Library (MML)

The library increased interactions as it welcomed more visitors. Its FY26 gate count was 104,660 - 1,000+ more visitors than in FY25.

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Institutional Effectiveness (OIE)

Partnering with Workforce Operations, OIE streamlined the faculty roster process to automate faculty credential collection and formatting, allowing more time for review and ensuring timely submission to SACSCOC.

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Student Services

Enrollment across all schools totaled 3,693 in AY 25-26. Additionally, the office successfully administered more than $66.1 million in student financial assistance.

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Office of Faculty Development (OFD)

Enriching the faculty experience: OFD brought 114 total events (150 total contact hours) to our campus, with 588 faculty participants (49% of all UTMB faculty).

OFD Program Highlights:

  • Leadership: Faculty Leadership Collaborative (FLC): Early-Career Bootcamp participants showed significant gains in leadership confidence (4.81 pre-program to 8.26 post-program).
  • Educational Mentoring: Programs reached faculty members across 26 departments representing all five UTMB schools. 
  • Research Mentoring: Advancing Research through Mentoring (ARM) mentees in their first year received 20 awards as Principal Investigator, totaling an estimated $7.4 million, from 78 applications.