To fill the identified needs of our corporate training clients, the 2024 Professional Workshop Series has been launched, and will serve all: corporations, non-profits, and government agencies alike to provide impactful training for an array of relevant topics in today’s workplace. Topics include Change Leadership & Organizational Agility, Combating Compassion Fatigue, Mental Wellness in the (Read the full article…)
Category: Professional Development
Grant funding opportunity for OER
VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium, opened a new round of VIVA Open Adopt Grants, with an application deadline of November 7, 2023. VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to individual instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open (OER) or no-cost materials into a syllabus, and to ensure that the results of those efforts are widely available to Virginia educators. VIVA Open Adopt Grants (Read the full article…)
VIVA Open OER Webinar
VIVA is hosting a 60-minute interactive webinar, “Getting Started with VIVA Open,” on November 10, 2022 from 1-2 PM EST. This session, facilitated by ISKME, is designed for Virginia faculty and higher education professionals interested in learning more about open educational resources (OER) and practices, and the VIVA Open! digital library. Learn more and register (Read the full article…)
New Diversity Resource
The VCCS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Carla Kimbrough, has purchased streaming access to a DEI video for each college. Race: The Power of an Illusion is a 3-episode video series. Each episode is linked below. Please note that you will need to click the “VCCS Hosted Video” link and login by entering your @email.vccs.edu email (Read the full article…)