How to get started as a new member in our department

This page gives step-by-step instructions for visiting scholars and other unsupported (unpaid) individuals. We have separate instructions for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students, as well as a list of all dates and deadlines.

Questions? You can answer many questions by looking through our department website: use the navigational links at the top of each page, or the search box in the upper right corner. If you cannot locate an answer, please contact Christa L King [Math 109 (Dept Head Office), (520) 621-2868, cking@math.arizona.edu] or Denise Ingram [Math 115 (Business Office), (520) 621-2562, dingram@math.arizona.edu], either of whom will direct you to the appropriate person.

Corrections? If you discover mistakes or misleading information in the step-by-step instructions on this page, please take a moment to improve the experience for others by sending your comments/corrections to Tina M Deemer [Math 209, (520) 621-4765, deemer@math.arizona.edu]. Thanks!

Things to do right away (before arriving on campus):

1. Print out this webpage (the one you're looking at right now) so that you can cross off each step as it is completed.
2. Prepare your travel/relocation plans in accordance with your expected start date in the department. UA classes start on 24 Aug 2009. You may also be interested in (or have been invited to participate in) various department start-of-semester meetings and workshops. Consult the department calendar of start-of-semester meetings and workshops to guide your planning.
3. Contact Christa L King [Math 109 (Dept Head Office), (520) 621-2868, cking@math.arizona.edu] to provide the following information, if you have not already provided it:
   • Current contact information (address, phone, e-mail)
   • Parking permit needs, if applicable
   • Date of arrival on campus
4. By 15 Jul 2009 (or, for late hires, within 2 weeks of when we receive your signed offer letter), you should receive an e-mail from our department, sent to the e-mail address you provided in the previous step, with information on your new math department e-mail address and network account, and instructions on how to access that e-mail or forward it elsewhere. Subsequent math department communications will be sent to your new math department e-mail address.
5. Print a UA map to bring with you to campus. You will need to go to various buildings on campus other than the Math Building.

Things to do once you arrive on campus:

1. Depending on whether you are a university-sponsored “visiting scholar” or a department-sponsored visitor, you will receive some combination and level of building, mail, library, and computing privileges. Go to the Department Head's office, Room 109 in the Math Building, to determine your precise status and what steps need to be carried out to get into the appropriate university database so that you can obtain a CatCard, which in turn will grant you access to other things. (Department-sponsored visitors can be added by the department into a special CatCard visitor database, but university-sponsored visiting scholars get entered by the Provost's Office into the university-wide payroll system with a salary of 0 and will receive a University Employee Identification Number—interchangeably abbreviated EIN or EID—which in turn can be used to obtain a CatCard.) Depending on your status, the Department Head's office might send you to the Business Office in Room 117 to complete university paperwork, which might require you showing some kind of government-issued photo identification.
2. When you have received your EID or you have been added to the special CatCard visitor database, obtain a CatCard (UA Photo Identification Card) by going to the CatCard Office in the Student Union. Be sure to take a government-issued photo I.D. with you.
3. Bring your CatCard to the Math Department Head Office, Room 109 in the Math Building, to obtain your office assignment and key card, and to have your photo taken for the department photo directory.
4. Go to the University Key Desk (show location on campus map snippet) to obtain office keys. You will need to take your CatCard and your key card with you. This office is located far from the Math Building, so you may want to use the CatTran shuttle service.
5. If you will be riding a bicycle to campus, you can read about options for bicycle registration and parking.
6. Attend all relevant Math Department Meetings (for additional start-of-semester activities that might apply to you, check the start-of-semester calendar):
   • Math Department New Employee Orientation on 18 Aug 2009, 9 AM in Math Building, Room 501. At this meeting, you will be introduced to key personnel in the department, go on a tour of our offices, and receive information about payroll, mailboxes, textbooks, office supplies, copy requests, etc.
   • Math Department Computing Orientation on 21 Aug 2009, 11 AM in Math Building, Room 101. At this meeting, you will be given information about computing resources, options, and support.
   • Other mandatory meetings that might get scheduled between 17 Aug 2009 and the start of classes on 24 Aug 2009, which would be announced by math department e-mail.
7. Classes start on 24 Aug 2009.

Other Important Information/Websites:

• UA Math Department Home Page
• Math Department Computing Support Page
• Math Department Calendar of start-of-semester meetings
• The University of Arizona Home Page
• Housing/apartments/rental properties:
  • Tucson Weekly Classifieds
  • tucson.com
  • craigslist
  • UA's Lo Que Pasa classifieds
  • If you are interested in buying a house, Above & Beyond Relocation Services is the contracted provider of relocation services for the UA.

Contacts in the Math Department: