Always big on professional development opportunities, Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar Hylton had to get creative when executing those plans during a pandemic.
Enter the Division of Student Affairs Fellows program.
鈥淚 have always had a commitment to making sure that division staff takes advantage of as many professional development opportunities as possible,鈥 said Hylton. 鈥淲ith the onset of the pandemic, we knew that funding for more traditional forms of professional development like conferences and institute travel and things like that we were not likely to happen [so] we needed to think of in-house ways of providing professional development experiences in the context of our situation.鈥
Starting with an application process, those interested could self-apply and, in a few instances, others were nominated by their respective supervisors. Once the process was complete, the historic first cohort consisted of 14 fellows who gained valuable skills over the past academic year.
Read the full story that includes a complete list of the inaugural class.