The Professional Development Center

We all imagine the holidays to be like a Norman Rockwell painting with families and friends gathering, exchanging gifts and the table filled with perfectly prepared foods.  Life’s not a Normal Rockwell painting. It’s overcrowded social obligations, unrealized expectations, and . . .

• Location: Benson Center 410
• Open to: Everyone

To distribute the injectable vaccine, the University will hold clinics for members of the Reynolda Campus community who meet eligibility requirements below.  The CDC recommends the following groups should receive the injectable vaccine:   Pregnant women People who live . . .

• Location: Benson Center 401
• Open to: Faculty, Staff, Students

  To distribute the vaccine, the University will hold clinics for members of the Reynolda Campus community who meet eligibility requirements for the nasal mist.  Current faculty, staff, and students who are age 49 and under, are not pregnant, and do not have underlying medical . . .

• Location: Benson Center 401
• Open to: Faculty, Staff, Students

To distribute the injectable vaccine, the University will hold clinics for members of the Reynolda Campus community who meet eligibility requirements below.  The CDC recommends the following groups should receive the injectable vaccine:   Pregnant women People who live . . .

• Location: Benson Center 401
• Open to: Faculty, Staff, Students

  To distribute the vaccine, the University will hold clinics for members of the Reynolda Campus community who meet eligibility requirements for the nasal mist.  Current faculty, staff, and students who are age 49 and under, are not pregnant, and do not have underlying medical . . .

• Location: Benson Center 401
• Open to: Faculty, Staff, Students

This seminar presents the basics of mutual fund investing and touches on the strategies and questions that many customers need to consider for their company retirement accounts (401K/403B) or their individual IRAs as well as general investing.  It defines mutual funds, illustrates their growth . . .

• Location: To be determined
• Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Retirees, Staff

Having students keep writing journals has become a fairly standard practice in many classes, but typically, they are written for an audience of one - the student - as a kind of inner dialogue in which the student engages the material silently for the purpose of deepening his or her understanding . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Leading a classroom discussion is an integral part of teaching, but often our efforts are met with students' blank stares, one-word responses, or awkward shifting in their seats. In this workshop we will discuss some common faculty concerns about leading a classroom discussion and introduce some . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Identity-racial, sexual, gendered, ethnic-matters in our personal lives, but it also shapes our professional lives in important ways. It often influences, consciously and unconsciously, how we present ourselves in the classroom and raises important questions for our consideration. For example, . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Have you ever wondered how to help students better as they struggle with the need to choose and/or change a major? Have you ever wondered if lower division and major advisers should know more about the developmental needs of their students beyond the curriculum? Would you like a chance for some . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Everyone knows that Wake Forest has an honor code and most know that it has a judicial system. But how that system works is perhaps less well known. This session will present some basic information on the Wake Forest judicial system. The panelists--all members of the Honor and Ethics Council or the . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff