University of Central Arkansas

UCA and the Division of Academic Outreach believe that professional development plays an essential role in your personal success. Academic Outreach serves to bridge the gap between your educational development and your professional success. Equitable access to such professional development opportunities is imperative. Moreover, professional development works best when it is part of a system wide effort to improve and promote such opportunities within each community.

Professional Development workshops and institutes, through Academic Outreach, are primarily designed for educators from K-12 to post secondary education.  However, some of the workshops are suitable for business professionals, parents, and other interested individuals.  We invite you to explore the wide array of offerings that we have available.   You will find that many of the workshops and institutes are available for graduate and/or professional development (inservice) credit.  The professional development workshops offered for graduate credit are upper level graduate courses, and most of the professional development credit is approved by the Arkansas Department of Education.

In addition, the Professional Development Department at UCA Academic Outreach also provides conference and event planning to faculty, staff, and other educational organizations who offer workshops for professional development or graduate credit. 

Let us help you realize your full potential so that it may have a lasting and positive effect on your overall success!

Professional Development Department
Phone:  (501) 852-2394
Fax:  (501) 450-5277
e-mail: profdev@uca.edu