Staff Professional Development Committee

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Workshops

2020/2021 Planning Committee Members

Name	Title	Institution	Email
Jessica Craig	Staff Professional Development Coordinator	Wake Technical Community College	jacraig@waketech.edu
Kayla Beavers	Assistant Director of Human Resources	William Peace University	kabeavers@peace.edu
Valencia Harris	Graduate Program Manager	Meredith College	vphicksharris@meredith.edu
Jill Phipps	Office of Information Technology	North Carolina State University	jjphipps@ncsu.edu
Katy Merriss	Executive Administrative Assistant	Shaw University	kmerriss@bears.shawu.edu
Ann Brown	Dean of Students & Student Integrity	Saint Augustine’s University	ABrown@st-aug.edu

Summer 2020 Workshop Details

2019/2020 Committee Members:

Beth Hwang	Assistant Director of StrongPoints	Meredith College	bnhwang@meredith.edu
Sarah Kibler	Assistant Provost	Meredith College	sakibler@meredith.edu
Pamela Davis	Director of Human Resources	Meredith College	davispam@meredith.edu
Anne White	Organizational Development Consultant	NC State University	anwhite@ncsu.edu
Ann Brown	Director of Student Activities	Saint Augustine’s University	ABrown@st-aug.edu
Katy Merriss	Executive Administrative Assistant	Shaw University	kmerriss@bears.shawu.edu
Jessica Craig	Staff Professional Development Coordinator	Wake Technical Community College	jacraig@waketech.edu
Shemika Bell	Director of Staff Professional Development	Wake Technical Community College	slbell@waketech.edu
Kayla Beavers	Assistant Director of Human Resources	William Peace University	kabeavers@peace.edu

2019 Staff Professional Development Workshop at Shaw University

Shaw University was the host for the third staff professional development workshop that took place on July 18, 2019. Some 130 people were at the event, and one of their strongest responses was how much they like getting a chance to visit the other campuses in Wake County. The first workshop was at NC State and the second at Wake Tech. The committee will work on going to another campus next summer. This workshop also stressed ways to network with attendees.
This year’s event had 21 breakout sessions (see the schedule link on this page), and a panel at the end of the event. Again, the emphasis was on helping people fairly new to higher education positions learn about key issues and how to become even more involved. Among the sessions were ones on understanding your personal and professional purpose, microaggression, business etiquette in the workplace, difficult conversations, and supporting academically at risk students.

Panelists who shared their experiences as higher education staff members were Nakia Anderson (Saint Augustine’s, Makeba Jackson (NC State), Anna Clay McAdams (Wake Tech), Katie Nagel (Meredith), Alesheia Baccous (Shaw) and Michelle Hemmer (William Peace)