Professional Development and Other Benefits

Mentoring Program for Academic Staff
www.wisc.edu/mentor

Professional Development

Academic Staff Professional Development Grant information

Leadership Institute - A year-long dialog on work, career paths and reshaping the leadership culture at UW-Madison.
http://www.wisc.edu/edrc/p_i.html#leadership

S.E.E.D. Seminar - Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity. A national project on inclusive curriculum. http://www.wisc.edu/edrc/p_i.html#seed

Statistics on Academic Staff 
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/obpa/whoare.htm

Academic Staff Professional Development and Recognition Committee
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/acstaff/pdrc/index.html

UW-Madison employment opportunities 
http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/employment/employ.html

Office of Quality Improvement
http://www.wisc.edu/improve

A source of process improvement and facilitation for administrative units

Office of Human Resource Development 
http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu.

Search handbook - how are new academic staff being hired?
http://www.ohr.wisc.edu//polproced/srchbk/sbkmain.html

Sexual harassment information 
http://www.wisc.edu/edrc/sexualharassment 

Wisconsin Department of Employee Relations training resources
http://der.state.wi.us/static/oedt/oedthome.htm  .

Management training

Department Administrator Certificate Program (new in Fall, 2001), Manager/Supervisor Development Workshops, Office of Human Resource Development  http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu

Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program 
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/cpm/index.html

School of Business Executive Education Courses 
http://www.uwexeced.com/

Special purpose professional development 

Accessibility issues 
http://trace.wisc.edu/training/index.htm

Distance Education 
http://www.wisc.edu/depd

Division of Continuing Studies  
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu

Engineering  
http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu

Information Technology
http://pubs.doit.wisc.edu/f/pte

Graduate Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management
http://www.cls.wisc.edu/index.html

Music  
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/profdev/music.htm

PhD dissertators
http://www.wisc.edu/gspd/news.html

Social Work
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda

Employee Benefits

ECBS Main Page 

Academic Staff Compensation and Benefits Committee 

Job Security info 

Benefits seminars and workshops by UW-Madison Employee Compensation and Benefits Service (ECBS) 

Managing benefits if you leave UW employment 

Tax sheltered annuity (403b) reports 
http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/returns.htm    The 403b program is the public sector counterpart of the 401k program in the private sector. The returns shown on this page are usually out-of-date. Update the information from free web sources such as http://www.wsj.com and http://www.quicken.com

Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Program 
http://nrsretire.nrsservicecenter.com/nrs/?Site=WisconsinDCP The 403b program is generally preferable for UW employees, but this is another option.

EdVest College Savings Program 
http://edvest.state.wi.us/static

Principal Investigator status 
http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/PIstatus.pdf

UW System Benefits Index
http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/staff.htm

Worklife web

Retirement

Wisconsin Retirement System Information
 http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/etf   Click on Benefits Programs. Or avoid frames and go direct to http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/etf/ben/benl1p1.htm

UW-Madison Retirement Association

Emeritus Status, etc.
http://www.ohr.wisc.edu//polproced/UPPP/upppch2001.html

Service Opportunities

College of Letters and Sciences Mentor Program
http://www.lssaa.wisc.edu/mentor

A program to promote the retention and achievement of students of color and disadvantaged students by placing them in a one-to-one relationship with staff and faculty

Morgridge Center for Public Service: Volunteer opportunities
http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/index.html