{"id":12032,"date":"2023-09-15T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2025-08-03T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:26:17","slug":"staff-senate-professional-development-funds-available-for-the-5th-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2023\/09\/15\/staff-senate-professional-development-funds-available-for-the-5th-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Senate Professional Development Funds are currently closed for the 2023-2024 year."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>The Staff Senate Professional Development Funds are currently closed for the 2023-2024 year. We will notify the campus community should additional funds become available.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12033\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2023\/09\/Staff-Senate-PD-flyer-update-to-5th-year-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the fifth year in a row, Staff Senate has professional development funds available for full-time, permanent staff members (SHRA or EHRA non-faculty<strong>)<\/strong> who have been employed by WCU for at least one (1) year in a full-time, permanent staff capacity. Any full-time, permanent staff member that has been employed by WCU for at least 1 year is eligible to apply for the Staff Senate Professional Development Fund! The Staff Senate Professional Development Fund, with support from the Office of Administration and Finance, has received a generous budget to award to eligible professional development activities.<strong> If you have a conference or workshop you would like to attend, a membership you want to renew, or any other eligible activities, you could receive up to $750 towards the cost!<\/strong> \u00a0Learn more about the fund at: <u><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/professional-development\/\">https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/professional-development\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Staff Senate Professional Development Funds are currently closed for the 2023-2024 year. We will notify the campus community should additional funds become available.\u00a0 &nbsp; For the fifth year in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}