Professional Development Portal
Looking for Professional Development Opportunities?
Several departments across campus offer professional development for faculty and staff. We encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities. Check out the links below for more information regarding workshops currently being offered across campus.
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CETL Programming
Programming for faculty and staff to enhance their work as educators. We offer inclusive space for faculty and staff to meet for personal and professional growth. We focus on teaching, learning, and instructional technology.
Workshops Offered
- Exploring Generative AI
- Grading for Growth: Keynote and Getting Started Workshop
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EAB Navigate Refresher
Set up student scheduling and get a refresher on how to issue notifications for academic concerns.
Workshops Offered
- Navigate refresher on how to set up student scheduling hours or when to issue notifications for academic concerns in your class.
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Equity, Diversity + Inclusion Programming
Tier 2 EDI programming provides participants with the conceptual framework, opportunities for self-reflection and group discussion, and skill-building experience necessary for being an effective advocate for equity and diversity.
Workshops Offered
- At-Risk Mental Health for Faculty and Staff
- CETL Reading Group: Inclusive Day-to-Day Teaching
- Civil Rights Pilgrimage
- Classism in Higher Education
- EDI Independent Film Viewing Series: The US and the Holocaust
- EDI Reading Group- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- EDI Reading Group: The Racial Contract
- Inclusion and Access Lunch and Learn: Access Technology Demonstration and Conversation with Professor Emeritus Dr. Kathie Schneider
- Inclusion and Access Lunch and Learn: Accessible Presentations and Documents
- Inclusion and Access Lunch and Learn: Canvas Accessibility
- Independent Film Viewing: Writing Disability Panel
- Q Fest Closing Night: Big Boys
- Q Fest Opening Night: Every Body with River Gallo and Alicia Roth Weigel
- Reading Group: Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents and What They Mean for America's Future
- Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions in the Workplace
- Safe Space Training
- Sexual Assault Bystander Intervention Training
- Suicide Prevention Training for Faculty & Staff
- Supporting Student Mental Health
- The Gender Gap 101
- Trans 101
- UW-System Webinar: Confront & Address Bias Incidents on Campus
- UWEC Accessibility Training for Instructors
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First Aid, CPR, AED Training
UWEC’s Risk Management, Safety and Sustainability (RMSS) Department, in collaboration with UWEC Foundation, is providing free Adult First Aid/CPR/AED (automated external defibrillator) certification training to current UWEC faculty and staff. Classes are being offered in a blended learning format, meaning, you will complete interactive online training and then receive two-hours of in-person classroom training to learn and practice critical lifesaving skills for certification. Dates provided represent the in-class portion of the training where you will practice and demonstrate the skills you learned from your online training.
Workshops Offered
- First Aid, CPR, AED Training
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Office 365
Learn more about the Office 365 applications!
Workshops Offered
- Accessibility in Outlook
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PowerPoint
Learn how to spice up your PowerPoint presentations!
Workshops Offered
- Accessibility in PowerPoint
- PowerPoint Poster
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Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a university supported survey software. This program offers a variety of survey options, survey appearance, survey statistics, and mass distribution options. The Qualtrics workshops will show learners how to create a basic survey, download results into Excel/Word, and how to create panels in order to distribute a survey to email list of participants.
Workshops Offered
- Accessibility in Qualtrics
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Remark Test Grading
Remark is the new software on UWEC's campus to replace the old scantron sheets and machines.
Workshops Offered
- Remark Test Grading (scantron replacement) Training
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Word
Microsoft Word is a document creation software.
Workshops Offered
- Accessibility in Word/PDFs
Firstsource
The Firstsource Support Team offers 30-minute individual, small group and department-specific travel training (additional time may be scheduled).
Unravel Your Travel
- Travel authorization – if required
- Best practices for travel booking
- Airfare, lodging, vehicle rental
- Acceptable payment methods
- Cash advance process
- Expense reimbursement
- How to get your expense reimbursement report approved the first time
- Top 5 expense report send back reasons and how to avoid them
- Student travel
- Updates, tips and tools
Contact the Firstsource Support Team, (715-836-3131) of the ASK Center to schedule.