Faculty orientation and onboarding sessions are conducted biannually in August and February. New faculty members will receive an email with detailed information regarding the orientation dates. Currently, all orientation sessions are online and last approximately one hour.

Faculty certificates will be mailed to your primary facility within the first few weeks following your faculty appointment with CUSM. If you have not received your certificate, please contact the Faculty Affairs Office at FacultyAffairsOffice@cusm.edu.

To access Microsoft Suites, SharePoint, or other CUSM software and resources, log in using your CUSM-provided email and the temporary password sent to your email. For any login issues, please get in touch with the IT Helpdesk at Helpdesk@cusm.edu.

To request an ID badge, please get in touch with the Faculty Affairs Office at FacultyAffairsOffice@cusm.edu. An ID badge is not required for your appointment but will be helpful for parking and door access if you plan to visit the CUSM building frequently. 

To request a campus visit, please refer to the CUSM website for detailed information regarding on-campus visits or contact the Faculty Affairs Office at FacultyAffairsOffice@cusm.edu. For a virtual tour, please watch the video.

You can find information on faculty development programs in the Faculty Development section of our Facility Development page. For additional details or inquiries, please get in touch with Jonathan Townsend, the Director of Faculty Development, at Jonathan.Townsend@cusm.edu.

For faculty with a CUSM employment contract, your faculty appointment will align with the contract period. For all other faculty, your appointment is granted for three years with the possibility of renewal. From our Guidelines on Faculty Appointment and Promotion: To be eligible for renewal (new 3-year period), faculty members must have engaged in a CUSM faculty activity during their appointment period, and there are continued plans for annual engagement. Faculty activities include teaching/advising CUSM students, conducting research with CUSM students, and providing services that benefit the CUSM community. You will receive a request from the Faculty Affairs Office to give an update on your faculty activities when your renewal date comes up.

From our Guidelines on Faculty Appointment and Promotion, faculty members should ordinarily have completed at least five years at the current rank to be eligible for promotion, although early promotion may be considered. There is no automatic promotion based solely on years of rank. If you are interested in working towards applying for promotion, please get in touch with Linda Connelly, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, at Linda.Connelly@cusm.edu.

The promotion process for faculty at CUSM typically opens with an information session in early August and involves workshops through October and November to assist faculty in completing their applications. The process closes with the submission of finalized promotion applications in early December, followed by reviews and final decisions by May of the following year. If you are interested in working towards applying for promotion, please get in touch with Linda Connelly, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, at Linda.Connelly@cusm.edu.

You can contact the Faculty Affairs office any time for more information on Committee service. Calls for nominations are sent out in early Spring, and elections to confirm new members are held in April. Committee appointments are for three years. Most Committees hold meetings online or in a hybrid format to allow for off-site participation.

The Office of Faculty Affairs oversees the annual faculty award process. Nominations are solicited from faculty and students early in the Spring semester – categories include teaching (both pre-clinical and clinical), research, and service. A nominating committee, composed of the previous year's award recipients, reviews nominations and votes to select award winners. Faculty Awards are presented at the annual Spring Faculty Celebration lunch held at the beginning of May.