The Mary Louise Kelley Professional Development Awards support the commitment of the College's staff to job-related continuing education, training, and professional activity. Staff members in the College apply for this award to help defray the costs of course work, workshops, training opportunities on or off campus, or attendance at regional, national, or international meetings.

Maureen Burke
Linguistics
She will go to Budapest from Florence next fall where she will visit the English language institute in Budapest which is directed by a former Linguistics teacher at UI.  Maureen will already be in Florence for her extended trip to Italy.

Joe Cilek
Health & Sport Studies
Joe will use it to complete two webinar courses in the field of student development.  One is entitled, “Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising.”  The second is, “Strengths-Based Advising:  Going Beyond Course Scheduling With Developmental Advising.”

Jessie Trepanier
Language Media Center, Phillips Hall Group
Jesse will attend The Way Up conference which develops women leaders to enhance Iowa higher education.

Jerri Wolfe
Health & Sport Studies
Jerri will attend evening computer classes at KCC which will be directly applied to her job.

Margie Ebert
Statistics and Actuarial Science
Margie will attend evening computer classes at KCC which will be directly applied to her job.

ChrisLake
Dean’s Office Accounting Group
Chris will attend UI Staff Development course, “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”.