The mission of the Office of Professional Development is to provide quality opportunities to Texas State faculty and staff that will assist in their personal and professional development as a fulfillment of Texas State's belief in supporting life-long learning for all employees. The Office of Professional Development contributes to individual, organizational and community excellence through learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange. We are committed to integrity, learning, equity, creativity, accountability, and quality service guided by the quality principles of customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, employee empowerment, dynamic teamwork, visionary leadership, and decisions based on data.

The Office of Professional Development is responsible for the following functions:

• providing workshops on teambuilding, facilitation, and customer service as well as legal issues, operational instruction, personal and professional development;
• coordination of workshop and meeting space with support equipment in JCK 460 and JCK 412 for Texas State employees;
  
• maintaining a resource library for employee use with a variety of media options (cassette tapes, videos, books, pamphlets, CDs) for personal and professional development;
• coordination of the monthly New Employee Orientation (NEO) program--part II NEO for all new employees and the annual New Faculty Orientation for all new faculty, which includes information and presentations from a variety of offices from across campus in order to make Texas State faculty and staff feel welcome and have a basic understanding of the university, its benefits and opportunities associated with employment at Texas State.