Congratulations on securing your new faculty position at CSUN and welcome! This is an exciting moment and we are thrilled you selected CSUN as your career home. On behalf of the Office of Faculty Development, it is our unique honor to be the welcoming team that will help orient you to our vibrant CSUN community through a comprehensive suite of programming called New Faculty Foundations. New Faculty Orientation is one of four programs we offer to support faculty's early success at CSUN.
Program Objectives
Each semester we host a formal orientation program for all newly hired tenure-track and lecturer faculty as part of our New Faculty Foundations programming. Our vision is that newly hired faculty who attend this orientation event will embrace the first day on the job with:
- The most critical information and campus resources to effectively navigate the first semester at CSUN;
- Authentic connections and relationships with students, faculty, leaders, staff and essential campus partners;
- Wellbeing strategies to thrive in role as faculty;
- Knowledge of CSUN's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and resources that foster a sense of belonging;
- Competence in essential evidence-based teaching practices needed for the first year and beyond;
- Familiarity with CSUN resources available to support research and creative activities.
Lecturer New Faculty Orientation: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 (tentative date)
All newly hired lecturer faculty (aka, part-time, adjunct) starting their faculty appointment in Fall 2025 are invited to attend our one-day virtual New Faculty Orientation to take place Wednesday, August 20, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Zoom. Your department may have notified you about this event. In the meantime, you can now begin to explore resources in our New Faculty Handbook.
Tenure-Track New Faculty Orientation: Tuesday, August 12 through Friday, August 15, 2025
All newly hired tenure-track faculty starting their faculty appointment in 2025-2026 will be invited to attend our upcoming New Faculty Orientation. Hired venture track faculty will receive an email from Faculty Development with important steps to complete before the event. In the meantime, explore resources in our New Faculty Handbook.