Professional Development Events

The GCC offers a range of professional development opportunities for our members and some events are open to non-members.  Our events are designed around the professional development competencies of the profession of graduate-level career and professional development which includes key skills like graduate career advising, teaching, research, outcomes tracking, assessment and much more. 

Examples of previous professional development events include: 

• Professional Development Lunch & Learn: A Re-Orientation to Re-Orientations (Feb. 3, 2021)
• PDC Committee Lunch and Learn: Navigating Your Professional Development as GCC Members (Feb. 23, 2021)
• PDC Committee Lunch and Learn: Engaging Graduate Student and Postdoc Alumni (Apr. 8, 2021)
• Making Strides in Graduate-Level Career Outcomes Reporting:  Surveying the Landscape of Classification and Visualization Methodologies (Apr. 12, 2021)
• PDC Webinar Microcredentials Community of Practice (May 12, 2021)
• Reimagining Humanities Graduate Education: Toward Institutional Change (May 25, 2021)
• GCC Professional Development Committee Webinar: Life Cycle of a Grant (July 21, 2021)
• Navigating the Grant Landscape Part 2: GCC Member Perspectives (Sept. 14, 2021)
• Navigating the Grant Landscape Part 3: Funding Agency Perspectives (Oct. 5, 2021)
• Professional Development Committee Lunch & Learn: The Role of Measurement in Evaluation and Research: A case-study of the Toolkit for assessing IDP process outcomes (Feb. 17, 2022)
• Professional Development Committee Lunch & Learn: Evaluation in Higher Education: An Applied Experience (Mar. 31, 2022)
• Professional Development Competencies
• Example Professional Development Events
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