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: cabinet, workshops and new administrator orientation
• Early career faculty programs and resources [2018-2019 New Faculty Seminar Series (PDF, 352KB); 2018-2019 Faculty Development Workshops (PDF, 134KB); 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 [2018-2019 New Faculty Seminar Series (PDF, 352KB); 2018-2019 Faculty Development Workshops (PDF, 134KB); registration instructions below]

Registration instructions

To register for SVPP programming and events online:

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