The Dean conducts orientation sessions with new faculty, sometimes drawing upon the expertise and experience of faculty veterans.

Department chairs are responsible for orienting new faculty in their departments on the following (which provides a good list of items to be reviewed in a department meeting at the beginning of the year):
· Faculty responsibility in establishing class attendance policies
· Academic dishonesty/plagiarism policies
· The importance of beginning class meetings on time and meeting classes regularly
· Drop/Add policies, practices, and forms
· Advising responsibilities
· Registration
· Midterm grade reports for entering freshmen
· Grading practices
· Final exam policies
· Meeting classes the day before vacation periods
· Dead day - a day free for study
· Reporting incomplete grades
· Changing grades (permissible only to correct calculation errors and omissions and to record a grade in place of an Incomplete)
· Requisitioning and purchasing procedures
· Textbook requests for the bookstore
· Phone usage (including the use of phonemail)
· Incoming and outgoing mail
· Procedures for referring students for tutoring or to the Math Lab and Writing Workshop
· Computer services
· Professional Activities Records/Evaluations
· Applications for travel grants
· Services provided by department secretaries
· And such others as are specific to departments