Originally written by Bill Mark and Peter Stone, Spring 2003 Revised and Edited for Public Consumption by the CS Staff, Spring 2004
As a professor, you wear many hats: you teach, advise/manage graduate students (and perhaps eventually research/administrative staff as well), conduct research personally, write and submit grants, and participate in internal and external service activities (e.g. graduate student admissions committee). All of these activities require that you interact with other people and offices in the department and the university, and be cognizant of their various rules and regulations.
You're also an "employee", and have to worry about parking, benefits, etc., just like any other university employee.
When Peter Stone joined the department in Fall 2002 and then Bill Mark came in Spring 2003, they found that there was no central source for the information they needed about the department and university. They wrote a guide to gather this information in one place, in the hope that it would allow new faculty to get up and running more quickly in the future. Their guide has now been revised in order to create a document that is useful to all faculty. Please send comments about this guide to www@cs.utexas.edu.