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1997-1998 Staff Education and Development Catalog

Welcome to another year full of opportunities for your continuous learning
and development!

Staff Education and Development is pleased to announce the availability of
its online 1997-1998 Staff Education and Development Catalog. In October,
your department will be receiving multiple copies of the printed Catalog,
so please see your departmental contact for your copy.

In looking back over the past year, we want you to know how much we
appreciated your participation in Staff Education and Development courses
and services. Many of you took advantage of new offerings, including the
Sustaining Excellence Series and the Diversity Education Program. You also
tuned into the Video Broadcast Service with greater frequency and continued
to borrow from the Video Library to add to your options for learning.

As we look forward to this new year of offerings, we want to introduce you
to two new course series, the Financial Systems, Policies and Procedures
Series and Student Services Series. The Financial Systems, Policies and
Procedures Series offers managers and fiscal support personnel knowledge,
skills and tools in the application of financial systems, policies and
procedures. Currently, the curriculum is organized into financial
management and fiscal support modules. The Student Support Series,
originated to support those who provide services to students, brings
together two existing courses and will be developed further in the coming
year.

In addition, the Information Technology Series has been significantly
enhanced to support your need for up-to-the-minute training in the changing
world of information technology. The series includes Creating a World Wide
Web Home Page, Extending the Functionality of Your World Wide Web Pages,
Advanced Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, Advanced Eudora Pro for Windows
95/NT, Introduction to Access 97, and Intermediate Access 97.

The Contract and Grant Series has been expanded to provide knowledge and
skill development for administrators and researchers as the following new
courses suggest: Cost Accounting Standards and the Disclosure Statement
for Managers and Sponsored Project Experts, Cost Accounting Standards and
the Disclosure Statement for Researchers and Academic Administrators, Human
Subjects Application Workshop for the School of Medicine, and Human
Subjects Workshop for the General Campus.

For managers, supervisors, and work leaders the "Performance Management"
workshop has been redesigned as a six-part core course bringing together the
key components of managing employee performance, from the "big picture"
perspective of measuring organizational performance to the supervisory role
in developing employee performance. We have also acquired two excellent new
videos for leaders, "The Situation," and "Front of the Class." Team
members, project managers, and graduates of the Sustaining Excellence Series
will appreciate the new video by Richard Chang, "Step-by-Step
Problem-Solving."

In the fall, we will complete modifications to the Electronic Enrollment
Service (EES). The result of this will be an EES that is easier to use and
which readily accommodates more simultaneous users. And now, with our
catalog online, we can bring new learning opportunities to you during the
year, and we will. This year we anticipate adding new courses, acquiring
new videos for the Video Library, and providing learning opportunities via
the web. We invite you to consult "What's New" on the Staff Education and
Development Learning Center Online to discover the latest resources and
services available to you. You may locate the Learning Center Online by
accessing InfoPath and selecting "Administrative" and then "Staff Education
and Development." Or, you may enter the URL address
"http://www-hr.ucsd.edu/online/staffedu/center/".

Please join us as we work together to create new options for learning!

Rogers Davis Assistant Vice Chancellor - Human Resources Lana Brenes Director Staff Education and Development