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The University of Oregon encourages our employees to continue learning! We invest in your professional development, learning, and recognition to help you carry out the mission of the university knowing your skills and strengths can continue to grow and evolve.
We're proud of our robust learning community, whose offerings and opportunities for connection include:
- Peer coaching and mentorship programs.
- The Financial Stewardship Institute, which offers faculty and staff the opportunity to learn about university financial and administrative processes, and to provide consultation services to a UO department.
- New employee orientation programs.
- Teaching support programs and a broad range of other faculty development offerings.
- Supervisor and manager education.
- FYI Fridays, where employees share projects, resources, and expertise with each other.
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Academic Impressions.
- Employee benefits and retirement education.
- Community groups including: Asian, Desi, and Pacific Islander Strategies Group; Black Strategies Group; Latinx Strategies; Native American Strategies; Deconstructing Whiteness; Neurodivergent Instructors and Staff; and Sexual Orientation, Attraction, Gender, Identity and Expression (SOAGIE).
- Employees at .50 FTE or above are eligible for up to $200 per term to supplement their department contribution, if needed, to support their professional development.
It's important to feel seen and appreciated at work. Departments and programs recognize employees with their own awards and recognition programs, and there are also annual university-wide recognition offerings for staff and officers of administration, and for faculty. Celebrate with us!
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Are you or a family member working on your degree? Or do you have student loans to pay off? Here are some supports available to UO employees in meeting their financial and higher education goals:
- Employees and their eligible dependents recieve reduced tuition at the University of Oregon or another Oregon public university. The employee tuition rate is 30% of resident undergraduate tuition. See the Staff Tuition Benefit site for more details.
- The UO is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. If you have Federal Direct student loans and make 120 qualifying payments, you may be eligible to have the rest of those loans forgiven.
- UO employees have access to Savi, a service that helps you navigate student loan relief programs.