Professional Development Center

The Professional Development Center is a collaborative programming effort that reaches across divisions and departments. Descriptions of the programming partners and links to their respective websites are listed below.

Office of the Provost

• Aids in the identification of campus initiatives and goals that require a professional development component
• Provides funding to support coordination of professional development activities
• Identifies existing resources for professional development
• Ensures representation from all constituencies in the planning and delivery of professional development programs
• Participates in facilities planning for the Professional Development Center

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)

• CELT is a cornerstone of the new Professional Development Center
• Focus on learning and teaching (broadly defined) as central to college's mission
• Long history as leader/collaborator in professional development

Division of Extended Learning

• Provides educational opportunities to adult learners, residential students seeking flexibility, and students from other campuses
• Acts as primary support agency for instructional use of the campus learning management system (ANGEL)
• Promotes best practices in course design and development
• Conduit and contact point for adjuncts, remote and emeritus faculty who are part of the "virtual" institution
• Focus on learning and teaching strategies, based on current research, SUNY-wide collective knowledge, and past/current institutional shared wisdom
• Manages Oswego employee tuition reembursement program, enabling all employees to be life-long learners

Campus Technology Services (CTS)

• Supports physical and virtual environments for innovative teaching and learning experimentation and practice
• Provides technical training for end user through regularly scheduled workshops, one-on-one sessions, and online tutorials
• Assures 24/7 access to the systems and tools essential to teaching, learning, and research
• Provides a safe and secure technology environment to support innovation
• Provides consultation on the latest technological developments to help users differentiate fads from trends

Penfield Library

• Provides information and literature reviews for assessment or research on instruction by faculty from all areas of the campus
• Promotes information literacy and the library's ability to address IL topics with classroom faculty in a mutually conducive setting
• Provides point of attraction for Library's "Xtreme Reference" program for faculty researchers
• Acts as a clearinghouse for library-developed learning objects to be used in ANGEL-based instruction
• Serves as the physical and intellectual center of the campus, and is thus a natural meeting place for faculty from all disciplines on campus

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP)

• Building a sound base for outside support of faculty intellectual activity
• Goes beyond proposal writing
  • Interrelated skills
  • Organizational skills
• Assists in providing focus on faculty research
• Provides an understanding of structure of funding agencies and foundations
• Assists in establishing faculty research reputations
• Creates compelling presentations

Human Resources

• Acts as a clearing house for all personnel related information
• Provides human development program offerings

Student Affairs and Enrollment Management