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The five annual awards celebrate excellence in teaching, scholarship, service-leadership, mentorship and staff in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

The 2025–26 academic year is officially underway at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, starting with the Opening Day ceremony on Aug. 18 in Alumni Gym.

Planning Week, a collection of welcome events, orientations and workshops ahead of the 2025-26 academic year begins on Aug. 18 with Opening Day.

The five annual awards acknowledge excellence in teaching, mentoring, scholarship and service-leadership among faculty and staff in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

In her Opening Day 2024 remarks, President Connie Ledoux Book took faculty and staff back thirty years ago to emphasize the university’s transformation, but also focus on what remains constant: the university’s commitment to people and relationships for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond.

Planning Week marks the beginning of the academic year as faculty and staff prepare to welcome back students to the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ campus. Look at some of the familiar favorites this year and also some new additions to Planning Week.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty and staff will participate in a full week of activities, gatherings and workshops as the university looks to begin the 2023-24 academic year.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty and staff will participate in a full week of activities, gatherings and workshops as the university looks to begin the 2022-23 academic year.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty and staff will participate in a full week of activities, gatherings and workshops as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ kicks off the 2021-22 academic year on Monday, Aug. 16, at Opening Day.

The annual effort kicked off in 2011 thanks in part to the work of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alum serving with the armed forces in Afghanistan.