Welcome to the University of Windsor’s New Faculty Orientation!
This highly interactive event focuses on critical start-up knowledge for your research, teaching, and career planning. It's also a great chance to meet your colleagues, as well as key people in teaching and learning, research services, student services, and the administration.
Orientation will help you to:
- hit the ground running, no matter what position you’re taking on;
- start developing your campus network;
- get to know the campus and the community; and
- get help with organizational and logistical issues that often take up a lot of new faculty members’ time and energy.
We strongly encourage you to attend! We encourage participants to register for events, even if they can only attend part of the day.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
New Faculty Orientation Day 1: Getting Started
Schedule:
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 08:30 AM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University
Day 1 will focus on "Getting Started". Sessions will explore course design, University of Windsor key bylaws, and service opportunities. Participants will also have a chance to learn more about the University of Windsor student and faculty population, and participate in roundtables focused on teaching, Indigenization, and service. Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, July 30, 2026
New Faculty Orientation Day 2: Creating Networks and Communities
Schedule:
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 08:30 AM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University
Day 2 will feature a variety of sessions focused on research, dissemination, and grants; equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization; and renewal, promotion, and tenure processes. Participants will also have the opportunity to share their own research in one-minute elevator pitches. Lunch will be provided.
