USC Faculty Portal - Especially for: New Faculty

New Faculty

We're glad you're here! And welcome from President Nikias.

To help you settle in, listed below are links to some basic policies and guidelines, USC offices, and sources of information. Your school or department may have formal or informal orientation help, in addition to the new faculty orientation sponsored by the Academic Leadership Development Committee.

Orientation Guide for New Staff & Faculty (PDF)

Guide to the Faculty Portal and other web sites

Support Functions
Will give you quick access to links to benefits, personnel services, and other helpful USC offices. Remember to sign up for your benefits right away! Your department will probably take care of getting you a computer account and phone number, and a listing in the Campus Directory, and tell you how to get your USC ID card.

Research
To help get your scholarly activities off to a good start

Funding Opportunities

proposal writing.

SPIN (Sponsored Projects Information Network, a database of 11,000+ funding opportunities)
GENIUS (worldwide database of university researchers.)

Libraries is the central resource for both print and electronic information.
- Libraries
  In addition to the USC Libraries administered by the Information Services division, there are a number of specialized research libraries that serve the unique research needs of the campus and are located near the schools and departments they serve. Three independent campus libraries are devoted to specialized collections for their respective professions: the Norris Medical Library, the Wilson Dental Library and Learning Center, and the Asa Call Law Library.
- Computing Help & Getting Started
- Email Help
- Doheny Library Research Services
- Electronic Resources
- Research Guides & Bibliographies
- Statistics Software

Learning
Here you will find links to sources of help in being an increasingly effective teacher.

Center for Excellence in Teaching
Campus Consortium on Teaching and Learning
USC policies and guidelines
National resources for syllabi, teaching tips, essays, and technology ideas

Expectations
These guidelines help explain the criteria your colleagues expect you to meet:

Promotion and Tenure
Faculty Evaluations
Faculty Handbook Section 3, "Academic Practices and Policies" has useful information, e.g., responsibility to stduents, outside activities of faculty members.
Keeping Out of Legal Trouble: Tips for USC Faculty (PDF)
President's Letter on Sexual Harassment
Provost's Memo on Teaching, Promotions and Honors (PDF)
University Code of Ethics

Our Neighborhood and Our Neighbors
Finding your way around campus, downtown, and greater Los Angeles.