Programs & Funding

VPGE's professional development programs span a wide range of topics and formats. There's something to meet your needs and schedule, from information-packed Quick Bytes lunches, to multi-session Deep Dives workshops, or week-long Stanford Graduate Summer Institute courses. Browse these offerings and use the Grad Grow Professional Development search tool to find more learning opportunities.  

Programs

• CIRTL@ Stanford Teaching Certificate Program
  The CIRTL@ Stanford program provides an opportunity for participants at various stages (graduate students, postdocs, and lecturers/academic teaching staff) to engage in professional development around teaching to ultimately improve student learning in their current and future courses.
• Deep Dives
  Gain valuable professional development skills that you can apply right away! Deep Dive sessions cover a variety of topics.
• Preparing for Faculty Careers Course (EDUC 343C)
  How will you prepare yourself to obtain a great faculty job - and to thrive as a professor once you begin your career? The Preparing for Faculty Careers course (EDUC 343C, Spring Q) is designed for advanced doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars from any discipline who are considering a faculty career.
• Preparing Future Teaching Professors
  Stanford students and postdocs are paired with professors whom they shadow weekly, virtually, or in person, during winter quarter and into the host institution's spring semester. PFTP broadens graduate students' perspectives on higher education and helps them compete for, and successfully teach in, faculty jobs at undergraduate-focused institutions.
• Quick Bytes
  Gain valuable professional development skills that you can apply right away! Quick Bytes sessions cover a variety of topics.
• Stanford Ignite
  Got innovation? Learn how to formulate, develop, and commercialize your ideas with Stanford Ignite. Led by the Graduate School of Business, Stanford Ignite is a certificate program that provides the business fundamentals necessary to succeed at any entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture.
• WISE and WISSH Groups
  Since June 2001, Stanford has sponsored mentoring groups for women doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars in science and engineering (WISE). For the past several years, a similar program has also been available for women PhD students and postdocs in the social sciences and the humanities (WISSH).

Funding