New Faculty Onboarding (NFO) at the OU Health Sciences is a workshop series. Join the conversation this fall for an academic career orientation that offers insights, tips, and strategies for a successful start at the University of Oklahoma's Academic Health Center. During the NFO series, we get you engaged and connected with people, information, and resources to help shape your success and advance along your academic career path. NFO 2025 Series Register Here.
NFO guides you on ways to successfully define, navigate, and assess the progress of your work with learners, peers, colleagues, department leaders, and others.
Purpose:
New Faculty Onboarding focuses on faculty roles, responsibilities, and opportunities. Each session helps you start sorting your objectives, activities, and priorities as a faculty member. Learn about academic career pathways, promotion and tenure expectations, strategies, and opportunities for annual and longer-term success as a teacher, scholar, team member, and leader while learning about resources to support you in your work.
Program Description:
New Faculty Onboarding provides useful information to start your academic career journey with OU Health Sciences. In a series of interactive sessions, we’ll talk about:
- Your career focus
- A mission and strategy based plan
- Avoiding pitfalls
- Staying connected through faculty development
- Who’s who and what resources are available to you
- How to get started
- And more!
How to Attend:
The NFO series includes one 90-minute opening session, and nine 60-minute sessions offered virtually, and concludes with a 2-hour in-person check-in breakfast and mentoring session with series guest presenters. New faculty who joined within the previous academic year will be invited via email to register; everyone is welcome, no matter when you started. Click to register for NFO 2025 Series here. MS Outlook invitations with the Zoom link will be sent to you after you register. Simply accept the meeting series invitation and updates and series materials, will be sent directly to you!