Professional Development Center
Non-academic credit courses, workshops, seminars, institutes, and conferences for professional and personal development.
Elevate yourself and your career
The Center for Professional Development offers non-academic credit courses for professional and personal development. The Center sponsors workshops, seminars, institutes, and conferences.
The Center awards credit in the form of Continuing Education Units (CEUs), Certificates of Completion, and Certificates of Attendance. In collaboration with other units and agencies, the Center offers Social Work Units to licensed social workers, School Executive Management Institute (SEMI) credits to school administrators, and other non-academic credit units sponsored by professional associations.
The School of Lifelong Learning's Professional Interdisciplinary Studies and University Studies programs offer adult learners flexible pathways to degree completion through fully online, hybrid, and face-to-face instruction, building 21st century professional competencies such as lifelong learning, research skills, strategic problem solving, teamwork, communication, and habits of leadership.
- Center
- Center for Professional Development
- School
- Lifelong Learning
- College
- Education and Human Development
- Offers
- Workshops, seminars, institutes, and conferences
- Director
- Carolyn Mack
- Phone
- 601-979-8888
What the Center awards
What the Center houses
The Institute for Educational Renewal (INFER) is a continuing academic support unit designed to provide university support to public schools as they endeavor to meet the needs of all learners — prenatal through adulthood — and their families.
The Center for Professional Development is also the home of the Southwest Mississippi Education Consortium's (SMEC) Regional Education Service Center that currently helps more than 24 school districts in 18 counties meet the professional development needs of their teachers, teaching assistants and administrators.
Educators are able to meet their recertification needs, solve problems, and meet program improvement needs through the center's offerings.
Professional Interdisciplinary Studies and University Studies majors are highly encouraged to take advantage of Ed-2-Go self-paced online micro courses. These micro courses allow students to get a competitive edge in a rapidly-changing workforce.
Visit our online workshops to access self-paced, manageable courses spanning various topics that allow you to learn new skills, enhance your degree, and elevate your competitive edge: Online Workshops via Ed2Go.
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Contact the Center
Professional Development Center Director
Jackson State University
1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217