The Department also benefits greatly from the varied perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and energies that visiting faculty bring with them. They provide a window on a larger world than that most UT undergraduates know. Exchanges begin slowly, usually with a personal contact between a UT faculty member and an acquaintance abroad who wish to change places. Should the two institutions wish to continue an exchange, they enter into a formal arrangement. Faculty wishing to initiate new exchanges are encouraged to develop such contacts and, working with the Department's Exchange Committee, seek the necessary approval.
Exchanges come and go.
Some have lasted only one or several years.