Checklist for New Faculty – Welcome to U海角社区! Please review this to-do list in your first days on campus. Please contact um.apfaafd@maine.edu with any questions or concerns.
New Faculty Orientation
New Faculty Orientation is a two-day event held in mid-August to welcome new faculty to U海角社区, help them acclimate, and provide an opportunity to meet a range of academic leaders and fellow faculty. It features roundtables on instructional technology, research, advising, and DEI initiatives at U海角社区. The August 2026 program is available here.
U海角社区 Faculty Development Workshop Series
U海角社区 Faculty Development is designed for recently-hired and early career faculty (including part-time faculty), but open to all interested faculty, has three aims: first, to offer a regular opportunity for faculty relatively new to U海角社区 to build relationships with colleagues across the university; second, to provide early career faculty with the resources (i.e., contacts, tools, skills, and habits of mind) to navigate academic life and find fulfillment at U海角社区; and, third, to deepen connection and strengthen community by facilitating the interaction of new faculty and more experienced faculty and academic leaders through structured dialogue (e.g., thematic panels). Most U海角社区 Faculty Development Workshops are organized around the 鈥淐ore Curriculum鈥 webinar series, supplemented with U海角社区-specific resources and campus expertise.
For questions about this program, please contact the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development um.apfaafd@maine.edu
