At NC State, you’ll find programs and benefits that support you now and throughout your career with the Pack. Regardless of your role, there are targeted professional development and training opportunities focused on your growth, success, and lifelong learning. Helping you maximize your potential and recognizing your efforts is a top priority.
Learning Opportunities Throughout Your Career
- The Tuition Waiver Program provides an opportunity for eligible staff and faculty to have tuition waived for courses taken at any University of North Carolina System institution.
- Employee Dependent’s Tuition Scholarship — Dependents of NC State employees are eligible to receive an annual scholarship to the university, thanks to a fund seeded by a gift from Chancellor Randy Woodson and his wife, Susan.
- NC State offers a myriad of training and development programs spanning all facets of work.
- The Office for Faculty Excellence offers programs that support faculty at all stages of their careers.
- Learning and Organizational Development offers training in everything from business basics to advanced leadership.
- LinkedIn Learning is an online video platform that offers tutorials on a broad array of topics.
- Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications fosters the integration and support of digital learning at NC State and supports online and distance education programs.
- NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education offers a wealth of learning opportunities in face-to-face, online and hybrid formats.
- NC State rewards and recognizes its employees for their pursuit of professional development and their dedication to the university through programs that acknowledge their great work and lift up our extraordinary pack.
Access to Technology You Need
- As a result of our commitment to technology and learning, we offer several programs that give employees access to a variety of equipment and software.
- The NC State University Libraries Technology Lending Program lends a variety of equipment to employees that they might not otherwise be able to access.
- NC State pays for software licenses that allow affiliated faculty, students and staff to download software onto their personal and state-owned computers.
- The Computer Loan Program provides computers to employees who may have limited access to technology and who want to take classes or expand their knowledge in ways that are mutually beneficial to themselves and the university.