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Henneke Center

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Established in 2009 in honor of former University of Tulsa President Ben Graf Henneke, the Henneke Center for Academic Fulfillment serves to recognize and support TU’s educators in their accomplished teaching, dedicated advising, and professional leadership.

Faculty Supports

  • Faculty Writing Program
  • Junior Faculty Mentoring
  • Library Resources
  • Second Book Institute

    • The Henneke Center’s Faculty Writing Program supports TU faculty in scholarly writing through resources, workshops, and faculty writing groups. These groups, meeting in person or online, provide a collaborative space to address the isolating nature of writing and balance scholarly efforts with teaching and service commitments. In interdisciplinary groups, faculty set writing goals, discuss challenges, and celebrate successes. The Henneke Center Faculty Garret room in McFarlin Library, housing writing group notebooks, is available for meetings.

      Writing Program Henneke Center on the TU Hub

    • Supporting Junior Faculty

      This program is designed to help support junior faculty colleagues when they start at Utulsa and throughout their first year (and beyond). Within their first year, junior faculty are tasked with navigating a new institution, teaching new courses, and developing research programs. To help support new colleagues and provide broader community support on campus, the Utulsa Junior Faculty Mentoring Program pairs junior faculty with mentors from across campus, incorporating multiple mentoring relationships with a Departmental Mentor, College Mentor, and Cohort Group.

      Junior Faculty Mentoring

    • Henneke Center Faculty Library

      The Henneke Center hosts resources related to teaching, advising, mentoring, professional development, writing, and publishing. Books and other resources are located on the 5th floor of McFarlin library, Room 5100. You can search the holdings of the Henneke Center Faculty Library. Books may be browsed in the Faculty Garret or borrowed for up to 3 days.

      Faculty Resources at McFarlin

    • Supporting academics in completing their second book

      Second Book Institute is a unique opportunity designed to support mid-career academics in completing their second book. Stalling at the associate professor stage is a widely recognized problem in higher education, as mid-career faculty contend with ever-growing demands for service and mentoring while managing a range of caretaking obligations. A collaboration between the National Humanities Center and The University of Tulsa, the Second Book Institute gathers ten scholars from a variety of fields and institutional settings.

      Second Book Institute

    Henneke coined the center’s dedication to “academic fulfillment,” envisioning this resource center as a place where professors might nourish their own “appetite for lifelong learning,” as faculty seek to cultivate the desire to learn in their students and to equip students with the skills to pursue it. The center is founded on four pillars of faculty academic fulfillment:

    • Teaching: in all its forms and variations
    • Scholarship: in the myriad ways that this is expressed across all disciplines
    • Service: including service to the university, scholarly community, and the wider public
    • Professional Development: to support faculty in their career development

    To fulfill its mission of faculty support, the Henneke Center runs programming related to the four pillars of teaching, scholarship, service, and professional development including workshops, writing groups, teaching support, and junior faculty mentoring. In addition to traditional workshops led by experts, the Henneke Center offers programming based on models of mutual aid to foster collaboration and community across campus.

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