Staff Development
University staff are an important, invaluable part of the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus and culture. Below are professional development opportunities, resources, and possibilities to get involved.




Professional Development
The provides financial grants for staff and work teams at every academic campus and Michigan Medicine to help facilitate your learning, growth, and collaboration. The fund was announced on November 17, 2022, to provide up to $200,000 in grants per year for five years.
Designed as a general guide to assist in your personal career planning, will show you how your current position relates to other market titles in the Career Family Classification System.
The University offers a tuition support program to increase the career opportunities available to staff members, enhance their performance and encourage professional growth.
The Staff Senate Professional Development Committee has been working on providing workshops that align with the Staff Senate goals to make available several platforms for University of Michigan-Dearborn staff. The goal is to enhance professional development, employee morale, and balance working life.
Resources
Co-Curricular assessment provides ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn with a broader picture of our students’ total and wide-ranging learning experiences. By supplementing academic program assessment, co-curricular assessment allows us to gauge our students’ exposure to ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn’s goals for the undergraduate experience, especially the last three of those goals: Collaboration, Cultural Understanding, and Citizenship.
Disability and Accessibility Services collaborates with students, faculty, and staff to create usable, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable learning environments.
All the policies regarding faculty and staff can be found here.
Human Resources provides information regarding benefits, compensations, employee relations, etc.
The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness uses various methods to ensure data is available to the campus community and our stakeholders. The have numerous dashboards providing institutional data available to staff.
The Name Pronunciation Guide page hopes to provide some help in pronouncing names that you might be unfamiliar with. Asking someone how they pronounce their own name is recommended as there can be a range of dialectical or preferential pronunciations.
The university has compiled a with instructions and videos for training purposes.
The is a safe place to voice and clarify concerns, explore options and to find effective ways to respond. All discussions are strictly confidential.
Opportunities for Staff
The Chancellor's Office is proud to honor regular staff members who have made significant contributions to the mission and operation of University of Michigan-Dearborn. Awards are given for Innovation, Student Success, Staff Development, Advancing the Mission, Community Engagement, and the Dearborn Victor Award.
is U-M’s employee engagement program. It's your opportunity to share ideas and define the campus community issues that matter most to you.
Office of the Provost
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128