Anticipating the New Faculty Orientation

Tomorrow, Tuesday the day after Labor Day, you'll get a chance to hear from many people at the university about the varied aspects of life here. Possibly just as important will be the opportunity to meet your colleagues who are new. While some of the sessions are straightforwardly information-oriented, some of them are intended to help you get to know each other and form what could be long-lasting and rewarding relationships.

If you want to get a sense of some of your colleague's backgrounds and interests before the workshops you might want to go to the VistaBB site "New Faculty Community - 2009-2010" which you can access at http://learning.drexel.edu using the credentials that were sent to you earlier - your Drexel ID and password if you are already in Drexel system. In that site you'll see under "Discussions" a link to "Introduce Yourself to the Community." There you'll find self-descriptions by approximately 25 new faculty as well as some of us older folk.

I expect to be at the orientation for most of both days and very much look forward to talking with those of you who I know as only email addresses. Please feel free to grab me and tell me what needs to be improved with this first year's effort to help new faculty easily join the Drexel community. I can also answer questions or point you to those who can answer them.

Jim Mitchell - Editor