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uw new faculty survival guide

Community Begins With You

We are pleased that you have chosen to join the UW community and hope that you will make a significant contribution to the well-established reputation of Waterloo.

There are many matters to consider and decisions to take on your "journey" to UW, and our intent is to provide support to make the transition as easy as possible. In that context, you will receive support from your home Department or School as well as Faculty. I encourage you to talk to colleagues there to determine what assistance is available. In addition, other academic support units exist to help you. The Faculty Association also offers a range of support services. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with all of those.

In addition, and complementary to the above, is the WatPort office, the central UW support service to help new faculty as they make arrangements to travel to Waterloo, and then settle into the university and community. Frances Hannigan's role is to provide assistance to you, directly or through others. She has prepared the material on this CD to give you a quick overview regarding questions or matters that frequently are encountered. Some of these are specific to non-Canadians, but many are common to all new faculty.

We hope this information will be helpful, and invite you to provide suggestions.

Best wishes,

Janet Passmore
Associate Provost, Human Resources.

This is a living document. All information contained in this document endeavours to be the most current information available from their respective websites. However, information can change without notice, such as information pertaining to Immigration, so please check the respective website(s) before beginning any course of action based on the information found in this Guide.

This New Faculty Survival Guide was last updated December 1, 2011.