Past offerings
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
12:00 PM
Getting Started with The Conversation Canada
2:30 PM
Journalistic Writing: Tips and Strategies
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
DEADHEADs Sessions 2019: Strategies for Smooth Sailing
Thursday, May 16, 2019
DEADHEADs Sessions 2019: Action Plans for Healthier Departmental Climates
Monday, July 29, 2019
9:00 AM
New Faculty Orientation 2019: Day 1 ("Getting Started")
Welcome to New Faculty Orientation at the University of Windsor!
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 welll as key people in teaching and learning, research services, student services, the administration, and the Faculty Association. 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!
Tentative Day 1 Schedule:
- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast
- Introductory Remarks and Welcomes
- Introducing . . . You
- Faculty Day in the Life: Teaching, Research, Service, Balance
- UWin 101
- Roundtable Sessions with Faculty Experts
- 1:15 p.m.: Lunch
- 2:00 p.m.: Optional Supplemental Sessions
2:00 PM
Optional Event: Campus Tour (partners welcome!)
Optional Event: Dual-Career Connection Program Information Session (for spouses/partners)
Optional Event: Getting Started with the Financial Services System
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
9:00 AM
New Faculty Orientation 2019: Day 2 ("Your Campus Networks")
Welcome to New Faculty Orientation at the University of Windsor!
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, and to meet key people in teaching and learning, research services, student services, the administration, and the Faculty Association. 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!
Tentative Day 2 Schedule:
- 8:45 a.m.: Breakfast
- 9:00 a.m.: Building and Navigating Your Campus Network
- 11:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.:
Many Voices of Knowledge Communities
Engaging with Students
Working in Contexts of Diversity
Collegiality - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch
- 2:00 p.m.: Optional Supplemental Sessions
New faculty will have the option to have professional headshots taken by Public Affairs and Communications today
2:00 PM
Optional Event: Introduction to Blackboard, our Learning Management System - Decaf Level
This workshop will introduce new faculty members to the Blackboard Learn environment and online learning. Participants will walk through the process of organizing the course menu, adding material to your site, and determining tool availability. Specific topics will be addressed (time permitting), through Q & A, and possible demonstrations.
You must have activated your UWin ID and password to be able to fully participate in this workshop. If not, please email lorie@uwindsor.ca in advance of the session for alternative access options.
Bb Decaf Level:
This option will offer a relaxed, and slower-paced workshop by placing an emphasis on step-by-step learning. This category is suitable for the emerging technical explorer or the learner who is new to using learning management systems.
Optional Event: UWinsite Student Information Session
4:00 PM
Provost's Reception for New Faculty (partners welcome!)
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
9:00 AM
New Faculty Orientation 2019: Day 3 ("Policy Is Fun! Definitely!")
Welcome to New Faculty Orientation at the University of Windsor!
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, and to meet key people in teaching and learning, research services, student services, the administration, and the Faculty Association. 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!
Tentative Day 3 Schedule:
- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast
- Course Design Confidential; Key Bylaws for Your Hip Pocket
- From Wherever You Are: Career Planning for Scholars
- Performance Evaluation and the Tenure/Permanence Track
- 12:45 p.m.: Lunch (Hosted by the Windsor University Faculty Association at the Kerr House, Turtle Island Way)
- 2:00 p.m.: Optional Supplemental Sessions
12:45 PM
Optional Event: Lunch Hosted by the Windsor University Faculty Association
2:00 PM
Optional Event: Introduction to Blackboard, our Learning Management System - Espresso Level
This workshop will introduce new faculty members to the Blackboard Learn environment and online learning. Participants will walk through the process of organizing the course menu, adding material to your site, and determining tool availability. Specific topics will be addressed (time permitting), through Q & A, and possible demonstrations.
You must have activated your UWin ID and password to be able to fully participate in this workshop. If not, please email lorie@uwindsor.ca in advance of the session for alternative access options.
Bb Espresso:This option will offer a fast-paced more technically driven workshop. This category is suitable for the learner who is confident using learning management system tools, or other online systems, who possesses a high comfort level in learning and adopting new technology.
Optional Event: Walking Tour of the University Neighbourhood (partners welcome!)
Thursday, August 1, 2019
9:00 AM
New Faculty Orientation 2019: Day 4 ("Explain Yourself")
Welcome to New Faculty Orientation at the University of Windsor!
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, and to meet key people in teaching and learning, research services, student services, the administration, and the Faculty Association. 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!
Tentative Day 4 Schedule:
- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast
- Why and How Your Story Matters
- Your Research: One-Minute Elevator Pitches
- Pitching Research Stories
- Going Public: Talking to the Media; Social Media and the Professoriate
- Documenting Your Impact
- 12:50 p.m.: Closing Remarks
- 1:00 p.m.: Optional Lunch (Mazaar, 372 Ouellette Ave.)
1:00 PM
Optional Event: Lunch Downtown
2:00 PM
Optional Event: Walking Tour of Detroit
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Associate Deans and AAU Heads Orientation
The Office of the Provost has initiated a series of orientations and welcome seminars for our new and returning personnel to help familiarize them with the various important aspects of their position(s).
This online event is an introductory orientation for incoming heads of academic administrative units (AAUs) and associate deans, and we extend this invitation to those who are already serving in those positions and would like to refresh their knowledge or learn different perspectives about their responsibilities.
Event Schedule (Tentative):
- 10:00 am | Leading and Overseeing an AAU: Panel Discussion
- Tina Pugliese, School of Dramatic Art and Joel Gagnon, School of the Environment
- 11:00 am | Policies and Governance Issues
- Renee Wintermute, University Secretariat
Registered participants will receive a Teams meeting invite closer to the date of the event.