Professional Development Plan
Area Year 1
Assessment, Evaluation, - Consult with members of
and Research NASPA’s Assessment,
Evaluation, and Research
Knowledge Community
- Assess Orientation and/or
First-Year programming
Organizational and - Fundraise for student
Human Resources participation in NODA
- Facilitate office staff
conversations about training
and maximizing work time
Technology - Attend training for Microsoft
Excel and/or CRM (Customer
Resource Management)
systems
- Learn about how coding can
help me develop work content
Values, Philosophy, and - Learn about institutional
History history and values while job
searching
- Serve on campus-wide
diversity and inclusion
committees
Navigating White - Read White Fragility: Why
Fragility It's So Hard for White People
to Talk About Racism by
Robin DiAngelo
- Reread On Being Included
by Sara Ahmed
Non-Traditional - Read Inside Higher Ed’s
Student Services Educating Nontraditional
Students Report
- Reach out to colleagues in
OTR and ask about resources
for non-traditional students
Orientation and First- - Submit a presentation
Year Programs proposal for the NODA
national conference
- Attend the Orientation
Professionals Institute (OPI)
this fall
Typology Assessments - Partner with leadership staff
and Leadership for programming
- Teach leadership course
material in full-time or
volunteer position
Year 2
- Attend ACPA’s Student
Affairs Assessment Institute
- Streamline evaluation system
for myself and my supervisees
- Hire additional student staff
members
- Take student leaders to a
regional NODA conference
- Build website content for
Orientation/ First-Year
programs at my institution
- Adapt paper-based application
and training systems for student
staff
- Help draft a policy or mission
statement for my department
- Lead values sessions and
values-based activities for
students
- Attend White Caucus events
at ACPA
- Attend dialogue series events
on and off-campus
- Develop a large-scale program
for non-traditional students
during first-year programming
- Benchmark similar programs
with peer institutions
- Apply for leadership positions
within NODA’s Graduate
Student Network
- Seek out opportunities for
research in OTR
- Attend ACPA/NASPA’s
Leadership Educators Institute
Conference
- Reach out to successful
leaders in the campus
community
Year 3 (and beyond)
- Engage in research opportunities
with faculty at my institution
- Apply for Ph.D. or Ed.D.
programs in higher education
- Fundraise for additional full-
time staff members
- Streamline and implement
affirmation activities for students
- Convert some small-scale
programs from an in-person to an
online format
- Lead technology learning
sessions for colleagues and
students
- Apply for Ph.D. or Ed.D.
programs in higher education
- Work with Multicultural Affairs
staff at my institution to facilitate
dialogues about Whiteness
- Fuse more social justice sessions
into student leader training
- Partner with Admissions to build
opportunities for non-traditional
students
- Cater Orientation programming
for transfer and non-traditional
students`
- Apply to Regional Leadership
positions within NODA
- Apply to host a regional
conference
- Get certified as an official
Myers-Briggs or CliftonStrengths
instructor
- Lead/attend retreat for student
leaders