The First Year Experience is a 8-course follow-up to your New Employee Orientation. The FYE will help you navigate your first year as UC Santa Barbara staff and will invite you to explore the vast opportunities and support services available to YOU and your newly hired colleagues.
Join us monthly via Zoom and get to know fellow newbie‘s and trusted facilitators from across our campus community!
Although this program was created with a new employee in mind, these learning experiences have proven to be useful at all levels and are open to all staff.
FYE Learning Experiences + 2025 Schedule
We’ve Got you Covered:
Professional Development
Professional Development
Discover HR Training Courses and PACE programs available during/after the workday. Learn how to fund the dream of continuing training and development!
March 5, 2025
August 27, 2025
Get Moving with TPS:
Transportation Alternatives
Alternative Transportation (TPS)
Explore all the different options to find your way to our beautiful campus...parking permits your only avenue! Enjoy 1:1 guidance based on your typical commute.
March 19, 2025
August 13, 2025
Here For You:
Employee Services, Benefits and Beyond
Employee Services
Explore all the different resources available to you through Employee Services.
February 5, 2025
July 30, 2025
Get Connected, Stay Connected:
Staff Groups
Staff Groups
Engage with the diverse staff groups on campus. Learn all the ways to get connected and find your much- needed community!
TBD
Performance Matters:
Maximize Your Performance
Performance Matters
Discover ways to share your accomplishments and communicate a year in the life of your career in dialogue with your supervisor. Invest in your performance, it matters.
April 16, 2025
October 22, 2025
Belonging and Respect at UCSB:
Expanding Your Perspective
Belonging and Respect at UCSB
This learning experience will welcome you to feel seen, heard, challenged, connected and transformed.
TBD
The Relationship and You:
Working with Faculty
Working with Faculty
Create an open communication channel, build buy-in around your work, and learn how to become the owner of the staff/faculty relationship.
February 19, 2025
July 16, 2025
Where Beauty Meets Brilliance:
All the Very Best UCSB has to Offer
The Perks of UC Santa Barbara
An introduction to all the very best of UCSB and all the perks campus has to offer outside of the workspace.
TBD
Session Recordings
"Where Beauty Meets Brilliance: All the Very Best UCSB has to Offer"
"Here For You: Employee Services, Benefits and Beyond"
"Get Moving with TPS: Transportation Alternatives"
"Belonging and Respect at UCSB: Expanding Your Perspective"
"We've Got You Covered: Professional Development"
"Performance Matters: Maximize Your Performance"