DISCOVER. ENGAGE. GROW.
Enhance your skills for your current role and further foster your career through experiences, exposure, and structured learning.
A university online tool for staff, faculty, and student employees to engage in training and professional development opportunities.
Provides opportunities and resources for leadership development, professional and career development, and diversity and inclusion.
Academic Certificates at Ohio State
OSU offers a variety of academic certificate programs that could help support your personal and career development. Depending on the certificate, you may even be able to apply your tuition benefit to the coursework.
Consider Serving as a University Senate Staff Senator
The University Senate is comprised of 141 voting members including faculty, staff, students, and administrators. The Senate’s primary responsibility is to advise campus leaders on the key educational and academic policy concerns. Elected Senators hold a 2-year term with an optional 1-year renewal. Applications are typically accepted in late spring with interviews in early summer.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), podcasts, and iTunesU
Through Ohio State’s massive open online courses (MOOCs), podcasts and iTunes U content, you have the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge that could benefit your career, or inspire you to continue with formal education through Ohio State’s online (link is external) or in-person (link is external) degree programs.
Professional Development Funding Opportunities
- Professional Development Grant for individual, group, and staff management opportunities
- Critical Difference for Women – Development Grants
Recorded Trainings/Events/Links
- Event Recording: Why is it so hard to talk about race?, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Note: The core content is the first hour and the remaining time covers question and answer.
- Training: Did They Really Just Say That?! Being an Active Bystander, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Resource: Implicit Association Test (IAT) – Harvard University
- Resource: “Making Sense of your IAT Results”, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Resource: “Mythbusters: Implicit Bias Edition” , Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Worksheet: Identifying and Mitigating Implicit Bias, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Additional Resources for Educating Yourself and Others from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity on a variety of topics, including: Specific Words: History, Meanings, Alternatives; Social Identity Groups; Microagressions; Being an Active Bystander and Responding to Bias; Word Reclamation, Reappropriation, and Political Correctness
- Certificate: Swift Coding and App Development Certificate, Digital Flagship
- Training: Recovery Ally Training, Student Wellness Center