Professional Development Corner

Contributed by Patty Marbury

Summer is here! I know many of us are very busy with fiscal year-end activities, but hopefully you can spend some time in July and August thinking about, planning, and/or participating in professional development!

Education Benefit

Each employee has all year to use their $2,000 of centrally-funded education benefit for professional development or $5,250 to use for tuition toward a degree-seeking program. To be eligible for this benefit, you must have had six months of service in a benefits-eligible position at UVA by the start date of the class, with the intent to remain on the active payroll during the entire term of the class.

See https://hr.virginia.edu/career-development/education-benefits-0 for more information.

Professional Development Request Form

UVAFinance team members – remember to use the Professional Development Request Form to submit your requests for training and professional development, before you register for any program. Remember that they go to your manager first for approval, and then to the Leadership Team for review at their weekly meetings, which are typically on Tuesday mornings. Therefore, be sure to submit requests as soon as possible.  Remember, not all professional development opportunities require submission of the form. If an opportunity is less than ½ day AND there is no cost associated with it, then do not submit a form. Many LinkedIn Learning courses and some courses offered by UVA Human Resources or other UVA departments meet these criteria. Otherwise, the form must be submitted.

Other Upcoming Offerings:

Upcoming NACUBO offerings:

• July 20-23 - NACUBO 2024 Annual Meeting (online option available)
• September 22 - 2024 Planning, Budgeting, and Analytics Forum (Chicago)

Upcoming EACUBO offerings: 

• 2024 Annual Meeting - October 13-16 in Philadelphia, PA
  

Upcoming SACUBO offerings: 

• 2024 Fall Workshop - October 30-November 1 in Austin, TX
  
• 2025 Women's Leadership Forum - February 26-28, 2025 in Virginia Beach, VA
  

UVA's Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion current offerings

UVA Human Resources has courses and programs coming up which may be of interest.

Other offerings: 

• Leaders Lab of Greater Charlottesville sponsored by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. The Leaders Lab is a leadership training program for everyone who wants to be great at collaboration! Current and emerging leaders build leadership skills, practice community problem-solving, and learn first-hand how people are working together on local issues. Applications for the cohort beginning this fall are due on June28, 2024.
• UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) offers many Certificate programs.
• The Higher Education Program for Executive Level Assistants registration deadline is July 1, 2024, so be sure to check it out if you’re interested.

See a list of ongoing opportunities on the UVAFinance website.