New Faculty Orientation

Welcome to Wright State University! The Center for Faculty Excellence and the Office of the Provost are excited to have you join us and appreciate you bringing your expertise to our university. Please see our new faculty orientation and resources below for helpful support information to get you started.

New Faculty Orientation—Thursday, August 22

Register Online: New Faculty Orientation

This will be your opportunity to meet many of your new colleagues and to learn from highly effective Wright State instructional faculty and productive researchers and scholars in the space of a single day. After a light continental breakfast and welcome event, New faculty orientation will offer short informative and hands-on sessions on the following topics:

Thriving as Faculty/Preparing for Advancement
Campus Culture and Shared Governance
New Classroom Technology
Library Support for Research or Teaching
Building a Course in Pilot (Wright State's learning management system)
Building a syllabus for student success.

A box lunch will be provided prior to the afternoon symposium, which will feature an exciting mix of workshops.

Schedule

Time	Event	Location
8:30 a.m.	Coffee and pastry/Provost welcome to new faculty/Group photo Provost Amy Thompson Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Carol Loranger	Lobby Near 007 Student Success Center
9 to 9:30 a.m	Session 1: First Week Strategies for Student Belonging Peggy Kelly, COSM-MTH, Center for Faculty Excellence Teaching Fellow	007 Student Success Center
9:35 to 10:10 a.m.	Session 2: Thriving as Faculty Charting your professional flight path Teaching Community of Practice Daniel Warshawsky, COLA-SOSSIS, Provost's Fellow Dusty Columbis, CHEH-TED, Provost's Fellow	007 Student Success Center
10:15 to 10:40 a.m.	Session 3: CSSC and You: Important things for you to know about Community Standards and Student Conduct Christopher Hogan, Director, Community Standards and Student Conduct	007 Student Success Center
10:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Session 4: Engaging Teaching Practices for Student Success Amelia Salazar, Vice President for Student Success	007 Student Success Center
11:15 to 11:45 a.m.	Session 5: Pilot Primer and Classroom Technology CaTS Team --Reid Allen, CaTS, Manager, IT Services and Instructional Technology Charles Platt, CaTS Online Systems & LMS Administrator	007 Student Success Center
11:45 a.m.	Check in for Symposium	Lobby Near 009 Student Success Center
11:45 a.m.	Box Lunch and Symposium Keynote Provost Amy Thompson Professor Corey Seemiller, author of Gen Z Goes to College and Gen Z Around the World	009 Student Success Center