Teaching and Training Program (TTP):
The Teaching and Training Program recognizes that all student affairs professionals, regardless of organizational structure, or specific functional role, contribute to student success. As such, it is the expectation that all student affairs professionals should be able to demonstrate their ability to meet basic competencies outlined by the Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) and ACPA and NASPA’s joint task force document on core competencies.
Using CAS’s general standards, ACPA and NASPA’s joint task force document on core competencies, and UC Merced’s Human Resources’ core competencies as a foundation, ten competencies (provided below) were created that offer staff the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes expected of student affairs professionals regardless of their area of specialization or positional role within the field.
In addition to teaching and training opportunities offered at UC Merced, TTP offers five annual $1,000 grants for staff to purse external teaching and training opportunities such as conferences, certifications, and/or degree attainment.
Specific goals, objectives and outcomes for TTP has yet to be identified. Movement on this phase of the program will resume after a comprehensive divisional survey has been completed by staff and assessed by the knowledge council, estimated to be completed in the 2016-18 academic years.
Please email Rachael Martin for additional information.
