Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Program

Higher education administrators and faculty face a host of new challenges:

• An increasingly diverse student body and campus community, with different learning and working styles
• Incoming students more familiar with technology than college prep courses
• Changing accreditation standards and student needs
• Growing emphasis on evolving educational technology.

You know the tools are out there to help you and your colleagues successfully meet these challenges and more. 

But how can you get this information to those who need it?

Learn how with this 90-minute seminar as Dr. Denise Swett draws on her extensive and wide-ranging background in higher education instruction and administration and gives you the framework you need to develop and implement a successful professional development program.

A Framework You Can Build On

We show you how to develop a comprehensive professional development program for your campus with her all-inclusive approach:

• Essential first steps to initiate a professional development program
• The workshops you need to get your program off to a great start
• How to find and hire top-notch presenters
• Techniques to schedule, coordinate and track participation in professional development
• How to market your professional development program to maximize participation by faculty, staff and administrators
• The importance of professional development for accreditation.

Information You’ll Start Using Right Away

Full of practical tips, based on real world experience:

• The specific components you need to develop a high quality professional development program
• The key steps in planning and kicking off a professional development program
• How to identify the workshops and trainings your campus community needs
• Where to find online resources you can use to supplement your professional development program
• Proven strategies to build program participation.

Who Will Benefit From This Seminar

• Associate Vice President, Learning
• Coordinator of Faculty & Staff Development
• Dean of Faculty & Staff
• Dean of Instruction
• Dean, Instructional & Institutional Effectiveness
• Director, Faculty Development Programs
• Director of Professional & Organizational Development
• Executive Director, Organizational Development
• Executive Director, Professional Development
• Faculty Professional Development Coordinator
• Human Resources Professional Development Manager
• Professional Development Coordinator/Director
• Staff Development Program Administrator
• Staff Development Specialist
• Vice President of Instruction.

The Discussion Guide for Facilitators

Purchase this seminar and you also get a copy of the Discussion Guide for Facilitators, which has just the tools you need to get your whole campus involved in enhancing your professional development program.  The Discussion Guide helps you find ways to share best practices, keep the conversation going and put the strategies you've learned to work.

You also get supplemental tools you can start using right away, such as the do’s and don'ts of professional development programs, samples of marketing materials and links to excellent examples of professional development programs.

About the Presenter

Dr. Denise Swett is passionate about professional development, and her enthusiasm is based on more than 20 years experience in higher education.  She currently manages the college-wide professional development program at Foothill College, where she also serves as the Associate Vice President of Middlefield Campus & Community Programs.  She served as the Vice President of Student Services at Cañada College, the Dean of Students at Chabot College and was part of the leadership team in student services at the University of San Francisco. Along with her administrative work, Dr. Swett has taught graduate courses on trends in higher education and served as a consultant for colleges, universities, vocational schools and private institutions.  She has an Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco and an MPA and BS from San Jose State University.

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