Our Services
The SUNY Center for Professional Development (SUNY CPD) provides a range of conference and event services to support the networking, collaboration and professional development needs of SUNY campuses and SUNY organizations. SUNY CPD can assist you with hosting a conference, meeting, or other event. You can view our web recordings on our YouTube channel.
Introducing: OnAIR Virtual Event Platform
The CPD is proud to offer the use of OnAIR to host your virtual conferences and events. The multi-faceted platform that lets you produce seamless, professional virtual programming, including:
– Virtual Sessions and Concurrent Sessions
– One-to-One Meetings between Exhibitors and Attendees
– Virtual Poster Sessions
– Virtual Exhibitions
– Virtual Networking Functions
– Virtual Group Discussions
– One-to-One Meetings between Attendees and Exhibitors
– Ad hoc attendee to attendee video chats
Integrating with our conference registration services and working with different live streaming and webinar services, OnAIR provides you with flexibility and multiple approaches to your programming. For more information regarding utilizing OnAir for your upcoming event, please contact us.
Conference Support Services
CUSTOM EVENT WEBSITE AND ADVERTISING
Featuring complete details regarding the event. We also utilize our internal and external SUNY contacts to advertise your event via email, list serves and the SUNY Learning Commons. We will also include your event link on our website and online calendar.
ABSTRACT COLLECTION, SURVEYS, EVALUATIONS AND REPORTS
We can help you manage all parts of your event, including proposal review, data collection, report generation and scoring.
ONLINE EVENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM
Our robust system monitors registrations, provides up-to-date reports and invoices participants. Registrants can view their personal agenda and manage their registration completely online.
CONFERENCE/EVENT MATERIALS
Conference literature can be created using our registration database. We can provide name badges, registration lists, certificates, and sign-in sheets.
CONFERENCE/EVENT SITE SEARCH ASSISTANCE/ON-SITE SUPPORT
The CPD has established relationships with venues in the Syracuse area and can assist in your conference/event site search and selection. Our on-site management services include a staff member to manage your event registration desk and work directly with the venue with regard to catering, A/V, room set-ups, and other concerns during the event.
CONFERENCES WE SUPPORT
The SUNY CPD, partnering with other SUNY-wide organizations, coordinates conferences and events to foster collaboration and information sharing within and across the many disciplines of the SUNY system. These include conferences and events sponsored all or in part by the SUNY CPD, as well as other SUNY conferences.
Conference on Instruction & Technology (CIT), partnering with the Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology (FACT2), the Office of the Provost, the University Faculty Senate, and the Faculty Council of Community Colleges, this is SUNY’s largest, most prominent event on instructional technology in education.
CIT, which began in 1992, provides a dynamic opportunity to share best practices and innovations in the use of technology to enhance teaching, learning and research. The conference is held annually in late May and is hosted by a different SUNY campus each year. Attendees include faculty, professionals, technologists, librarians and administrators from SUNY’s 64 campuses, as well as other colleges and universities outside the SUNY system.
The SUNY Online Summit, is an annual SUNY-wide conference specifically for SUNY Online fellows in the experienced, expert, exemplar, and innovator/researcher roles. The first Summit was held in 1998 as an annual face to face meeting of the SUNY Online faculty development and instructional design team and the online campus based SUNY instructional designers whose campuses participated in the SUNY Online program. Today, the Summit has evolved as a conference intended for all SUNY Online advanced practitioners with expertise in online program administration, online faculty development/instructional design, online instruction, and online support.
SUNY FACT² Symposium (Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology) is an annual one-day event on topics of special importance to the enhancement of education through the use of technology. FACT² welcomes its audience and offers participants the opportunity to work together to see their ideals for excellence in accessible education become realities.
For more information on CPD-sponsored Conferences and Events, contact Nancy Motondo, Conferences & Events Manager, at nancy.motondo@suny.edu or (315) 214-2421.
Customized Training Services
Do you have a specific professional development/training need? We may be able to help by customizing a training solution for your campus:
- We can research, coordinate, and deliver workshops and events on a specific topic or university-wide initiative (for one person or for many!)
- We can negotiate with vendors to develop, coordinate, and execute a customized, campus-specific training plan both technology related or for faculty/staff development
- We can create technology-related training plans and assist with execution of those plans
To meet the diverse needs of your faculty and staff, the CPD can deliver professional development and training convenient to you:
- At vendor locations throughout NYS
- On your campus or other regional locations
- Online
To discuss your specific professional development / training need, please Contact Us.
Webinar Design and Support
Do you need assistance setting-up, facilitating, and running a web conference, online meeting, workshop or webinar? Let the CPD help you make it a smooth, stress-free, and successful experience!
Using Zoom, the CPD provides start-to-finish web conferencing support for SUNY organizations and campuses. Support services include:
- Planning & Design Assistance
- Event Hosting
- Online Event Registration
- Zoom Facilitator & Participant Training
- Web Conferencing Best Practices
- “Live” Event Facilitator and Participant Support
- Technical Help
- Recording & Publishing Event
- Online Evaluations
Details of Services:
Event Hosting: Start-to-finish event creation, implementation and support. CPD will create your meeting space/classroom, load content, provide participant instructions and email notifications, train presenters, moderate the event, and provide first-level technical support. We will record, archive and deliver your event in the agreed upon format.
Planning and Conducting Web Conferences/Webinars: CPD will help you design and organize your content, and add interactivity to your workshop, webinar or meeting. Web conferencing Best Practices will be customized so you reach your desired goals and communicate most effectively with participants. CPD will work with you and/or “Subject Matter Experts” to design, organize and script content and activities.
Online Assistant: CPD will be online to support your workshop, webinar or meeting. While the facilitator concentrates on delivering content, the CPD will use the platform tools to ensure an engaged and attentive audience. Polling, web tours, application sharing, and group work are some of the tools that will be used. Technical help will also be available throughout your event.
Event Registration and Evaluation: CPD can create online registration to track participant information; email confirmations and reminders; and provide registrants with detailed event instructions, such as session access, system requirements, training documentation and where to get technical help. An event specific website can be customized and integrated into registration. After your event we can create and push out an evaluation to the participants, then consolidate the responses and provide you with a variety of reports – all online.
Costs, Consultation & Quote: Costs will vary depending on the size of the event and level of services required. Contact Us or complete the Web Conferencing Consultation Questionnaire for more information or to discuss your needs.
Executive Coaching Support
Coaching Benefits:
*Increased productivity
*Efficiency
*Effectiveness for your campus community
Coaches are not for weak leaders; on the contrary, coaches are for leaders who are looking for the next breakthrough.
What is executive coaching? SAIL offers private and confidential coaching support for individual leaders at all levels, from new leaders to campus presidents. SAIL can match you with one of several certified executives coaches for you, or for your full leadership team. One to 1.5 hour sessions scheduled to occur either in-person or via video or phone call. One meeting may be all your need, or a series of coaching calls can serve to support you to meet your leadership strategic goals.
Grounded in established ICF Coaching Principles: Agreement, Understanding, Rapport, Communication, Exploration, Strategy
To find out more about our Executive Coaching services, please contact the SUNY SAIL Institute at leadership@suny.edu or 518-445-4201.