Professional Development

How to Use

Penn State has institutional memberships to several organizations that offer professional development resources like conferences, webinars, white papers, and more to our faculty and staff. While some memberships are limited, all of the organizations below have publicly available information.


Institutional Memberships
NACRO

NACRO is a network of U.S. and international corporate relations professionals that is dedicated to providing professional development opportunities and sharing best practices that enable members to develop and advance comprehensive, mutually beneficial relationships with industry and establish common language and metrics for peer comparison.

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UIDP 

UIDP is a project-oriented organization where members identify issues impacting university-industry relations and opportunities to develop new approaches to working together.

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EAB

At EAB, their mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. They harness the collective power of more than 2,100 schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights.

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NACE

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is a professional association that connects over 9,800 college career services professionals; over 3,300 university relations and recruiting professionals; and over 300 business solution providers that serve this community.

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Academic Impressions

Academic Impressions is focused solely on providing leadership, personal development, and skills-based training opportunities to faculty and staff in higher ed. The organization helps individuals, teams, and institutions across the US and Canada build upon their knowledge and expertise to reach new levels and find practical solutions to the challenges they are facing.

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Webinars
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New Organizational Structures for Corporate Engagement

In this webinar you will hear stories from leaders at three schools--including Penn State--where corporate relations has been recently restructured. Learn the how, what, and why of these reorganizations and the lessons learned.

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Corporate Engagement Collaborations Between Advancement and Career Services

This webinar will review strategic collaborations between Career Services and Corporate Relations units at three institutions, leveraging multiple campus relationships to maximize impact.

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