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

Register for 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	Presenter(s)	Location
8:30 to 8:50 a.m.	Coffee and pastry/Candid photos	Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Carol Loranger Faculty President Dawn Wooley AAUP-AFT WSU President Megan Faragher	Lobby near 007 Student Success Center
8:50 to 9 a.m.	Provost welcome to new faculty	Provost Jim Denniston	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 Senior Fellow	007 Student Success Center
9:30 to 10 a.m.	Session 2: Thriving as Faculty Charting your professional flight path Teaching Community of Practice	Melissa Doran, COLA-SOSSIS, Center for Faculty Excellence Fellow Dusty Columbia, CHEH-TED, Center for Faculty Excellence Fellow	007 Student Success Center
10 to 10:30 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
10:30 to 11 a.m.	Session 4: Pilot Primer and Classroom Technology	TBD	007 Student Success Center
11 to 11:30 a.m.	Session 5: Partners in Learning: Campus Resources to Support Your Student in the Classroom and Beyond	Laura Luehrmann, Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Alison Witte, Director, Academic Success Center Amanda Spencer, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Services Catherine Hernandez Hogan, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Engagement Kristin Petersen, Director, University Honors Program Patrick Sonner, COSM, Director, First-Year Experiences	007 Student Success Center
11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.	Check in for Symposium		Lobby near 009 Student Success Center
12 p.m.	Box Lunch and Symposium Keynote Welcome Keynote: "A Pedagogy of Kindness"	Provost Jim Denniston Catherine Denial	009 Student Success Center