Cardinal Chronicle
BY MICHAEL PEÑA
With today being Administrative Professionals Day, here's a timely reminder from KATHLEEN SEXTON in Learning and Development: The department is offering free professional development courses this quarter. For a complete listing, download the Training Opportunities Guide, available at http://ld.stanford.edu. The courses focus on career-related issues such as performance reviews, job satisfaction and building collaborative groups. L&D is even offering eight webinars this quarter for learning right from your office. Courses fall under the categories of computing and computer-related; employee and organizational effectiveness; financial and research administration; safety, health and environmental protection; and more. To subscribe to e-mail lists for specific job types (administrative associates, managers or supervisors) and course subjects, visit http://ld.stanford.edu/who.html.
For staffers wondering about "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day," which is usually held in late April, the WorkLife Office reports that it cannot host the popular program this year. The office, like all the others in the Serra complex, is preparing to move. Currently, the office also is short staffed, according to Director TERESA RASCO. The program lets employees enroll their children in activities put on by offices and departments throughout campus that offer a fun, interactive glimpse of what it's like to work at Stanford. Rasco said the program will return next year and then be held every other year. "We fully expect that the program will continue to live up to its excellent reputation and include a stellar lineup of workshops in 2009," she said. The date for next year is set: April 23.
Staff are invited to join students tomorrow night for the annual candlelight march called Take Back the Night, held across the country and internationally to protest violence against women and to assert everyone's right to live in a safe community. The first march in the United States was held in San Francisco in 1978, and it has been held on campus over the last 17 years, according to student and event coordinator JILLIAN WONG. She said about 160 students, staff and faculty participated in last year's march. Vaden Health Promotion Services and the Women's Community Center are co-sponsoring the march, which will start at 8 p.m. in White Plaza. Several leaders of the campus campaign against sexual violence are scheduled to speak.
Write to Michael Peña at michael.pena@stanford.edu or mail code 2245.
