Lifelong Learning at UNF
Have you considered the resources available at UNF for your continued professional development and training?
The Office of Human Resources (OHR), in collaboration with the Center for Professional Development and Training, offers numerous training and professional development opportunities. OHR also provides individual training upon request by departments. Examples of individualized training include Personnel Action Forms, timesheet creation and approval, writing position descriptions, and OASys training. Together with the Registrar's Office, OHR manages the Employee Education Program, a tuition waiver plan open to UNF employees and designed to encourage lifelong learning. Weekly New Employee Orientation (NEO) programs are held for all new staff members (Support Staff and A&P).
The Office of Equal Opportunity Programs offers a variety of training opportunities to faculty and staff on prevention of discrimination and harassment in the workplace and recruitment-specific training, in collaboration with the Center for Professional Development and Training. These sessions are offered on an ongoing basis, including seminars conducted through the yearly Professional Development Forum. Equal Opportunity Programs conducts specialized, customized training upon request by individual units. The EOP Office also administers the Employee Educational Leave Program, a university initiative that provides paid educational leave (contingent upon funding), for all permanent university employees meeting program requirements.
OFE promotes sound pedagogy through workshops, demonstrations, seminars, and confidential consultation by faculty initiative, classroom observations, organization of informal discussion groups, support of technological applications, and information dissemination on items such as teaching, learning, scholarship and tenure.
CIRT offers expertise, resources, and training to assist faculty in ways that enable them to develop greater capacities for using technology for teaching and research. Services include equipment checkout, conference poster printing, and the preparation of images and figures for publication. The facility is open to all UNF faculty and CIRT staff are available to consult on a variety of topics, including digital audio and video production, instructional technology integration, online learning tools, and specialized project support.
