Professional Development
To support and enhance employee success, Minnesota State offers many leadership, faculty, and staff professional development opportunities at both the campus and system level.
Minnesota State is committed to developing its own leaders, as well as attracting top talent from diverse and national pools. We have several internal leadership development programs for supervisors, mid-level leaders, and executives, including:
- Supervisory training, both online and in-person
- Orientation and professional coaching for new administrators
- Leadership academy to develop mid-level leaders
There are many opportunities available to Minnesota State employees to enhance their job skills and develop their careers. New employees are provided with information to help them:
- Understand their role and responsibilities as a state employee;
- Perform their role safely; and
- Be a part of the community at their campus and across the system.
Ongoing opportunities include:
- Tuition waiver
- Systemwide conferences and professional development days relating to professional fields
- Job skills training, technical systems, and diversity and inclusion
Network for Educational Development (NED)
We are committed to the success of our employees. The NED was established to provide educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
The NED offers:
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Educational development opportunities (webinars, short courses, long courses, faculty learning communities) that are hosted on the NED Events Calendar.Themes include:
- Accessibility (Creating Accessible Course Documents, Finding Accessible Materials, etc.)
- Academic Equity (Equity 101, Equity and Technology, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, etc.)
- Academic Technologies (D2L Brightspace, Kaltura MediaSpace, Zoom)
- Foundations (Assessment, Course Design, Course Delivery, etc.)
- Open Educational Resources (OEN Webinars, OER Learning Circles, etc.)
- Teaching and learning competency courses (required for newly hired faculty)
View the NED Catalog to learn more.
- A repository of educational development resources
- A space to start and join conversations about teaching, learning, and student success
This section is for nonemployees and newly hired employees who don't have access to HR Connect and ELM. Employees should enroll in these courses through ELM.
The Talent Management unit within the Human Resources division provides leadership and support to Minnesota State in attracting, retaining, and developing employees to meet current and future educational needs.
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- Congratulations and Welcome to Minnesota State - for newly hired employees before their first work day
- FERPA and Data Privacy - For graduate students, consulting partners, campus volunteers
- Code of Conduct and Ethics - For contractors
- Search Advisory Committee Training - For nonemployee members of search advisory committees (two-unit course). There is an issue with using the Firefox browser, please use Chrome.
- Search Advisory Committee Training for Minnesota State (Unit 1, 20 minutes)
- Unconscious Bias in the Search Process (Unit 2, 30 minutes)
Resources