Professional Development

A range of opportunities and programs are available to faculty and staff to ensure their continuing professional engagement and productivity at all career levels:

Administrative fellowship program
Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Program
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) - CELT offers numerous professional development opportunities that facilitate the professional and intellectual development of faculty, staff and graduate students as educators.
Department chairs and new academic leaders: chairs cabinet, workshops and new academic leadership boot camp
Early career faculty programs and resources [registration instructions below]
Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA) for faculty and staff - This university-wide initiative seeks to enhance leadership development for tenured faculty and P&S staff. This year-long program develops depth of leadership skills as well as to diversify the potential pool of leadership candidates.
External faculty fellowships, residencies and awards
Faculty Professional Development Assignments (FPDA)
Fulbright Scholar Program
Iowa Network for Women in Higher Education (IowaWHE)
ISU ADVANCE
Mentoring
Miller Faculty Fellowship Program - This program provides faculty with opportunities to enhance their scholarly work in the undergraduate academic programs of the university and to develop innovative approaches to enhance student learning. Faculty will have up to twelve months to meet the goals of their Fellowship project.
P&S tuition reimbursement program - These grants provide tuition reimbursement to eligible P&S and Merit staff members applying for financial assistance to help defray the cost of tuition for up to three (3) college credits.
Term faculty programs and resources [registration instructions below]

Registration instructions

To register for SVPP programming and events online:

Go to the Learn@ISU page
Login using your ISU netID and password (top right)
Select Course Catalogue from the menu (top left)
Scroll to SVPP events
Click List Events next to the event you would like to attend
Select Enroll in the pop-up window - the event will be added to your Menu