Resources Training Locations Employee Development Home For Instructors Support Evaluations Contact Information: training@virginia.edu 243-4847

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• Adult Basic Education and GED Exam Information

• Accounting Services:  http://www.virginia.edu/finance/genacct/index.html  Provides information to University faculty and staff on financial transaction processing, account reconciliations, funds transfers, and accounting period closing schedules.
• Accounting Services, Business Professionals Development Program:  http://www.virginia.edu/finance/uvabp/ Offers Resources for the Highest Level of Professionalism in University Business Administration.

• Environmental Health & Safety: http://ehs.virginia.edu/training/home.html  Offers a wide variety of programs on safety and waste.
• Equal Opportunity Programs: http://www.virginia.edu/eop/training.html  Provides mandatory training program for supervisors on the University's discriminatory harassment policy and complaint procedures.
• Facilities Management: http://fmweb.virginia.edu/FMHome/ Offers on-line information of rules, regulations, and services for U.Va. departments.
• Information Technology & Communication (ITC) Training Services:
  http://www.itc.virginia.edu/training/ If you're looking specifically for computer training, ITC has a full range of courses open to the University of Virginia community.
• Intramural-Recreational Sports: http://www.virginia.edu/ims/ Offers fitness and recreational activity classes. Certifications courses page:   http://www.virginia.edu/ims/rip/certifications.html.
• Library User Education:  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/usered/ Offers a variety of courses for faculty, staff, and students. Provides links to the following types of courses:
  • Education Library Short Courses
  • Scholars Lab Instructional Support
  • Brown Research Computing Lab Courses
  • Digital Media Lab Short Courses
  • Health Sciences Library User Education Program
• Mindfulness Center: http://www.uvamindfulnesscenter.org/schedule.php   The UVA Mindfulness Center offers intensive training courses to develop mindfulness skills - the practice of focusing our attention on our inner experience at the moment that it is happening.
• Miller Center of Public Affairs:  http://millercenter.org/about  Serves as a national meeting place where engaged citizens, scholars, students, media representatives, and government officials gather in a spirit of nonpartisan consensus to research, reflect, and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.
• Office of Sponsored Programs: http://www.virginia.edu/~sponpgm/training.html
  Provides a centralized, quality source of training and information to the research community at the University of Virginia, in order to advance professional development and to support excellence in research and research administration.
• Police Department: http://www.virginia.edu/~police/
  Offers educational seminars are available to both students and staff members of the University topic include: General safety and security, alcohol awareness, illegal drugs, hazing, sexual assault prevention, driving under the influence, and self defense; Rape Aggression Defense Classes; Security Surveys; Third Party Sexual Assault Reporting Program and Map of Blue Light Phones.
• Procurement Services Department: http://www.virginia.edu/~pams/Train.htm  Training for the Procurement Modules of the Integrated System application is conducted by University Human Resources Employee Development. This training is focused on tasks performed in the Integrated System, and does not encompass all aspects of Purchasing and Accounts Payable: http://www.procurement.virginia.edu/main/departments/Training.html
• Procurement Services, in conjunction with Supplier Diversity, sponsors vendor training sessions to help vendors understand the purchasing and accounts payable processes at the University:  http://www.procurement.virginia.edu/main/vendors/VendorTraining.html
• School of Continuing and Professional Studies: http://uvace.virginia.edu/  Offers a wide variety of programs such as undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificate and professional development programs, and personal enrichment opportunities to the community.  Offers a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree.
• Teaching Resource Center (TRC): http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~trc/home.html  Offers a number of services and resource materials designed to enhance the teaching abilities of faculty and teaching assistants at the University of Virginia.
• University of Virginia Health System:  http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/toplevel/home/   Provides a single point of entry to information and services that are provided by departments within the Health System.
• University Registrar: http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/ Resources for faculty and staff on courses, grading, and classrooms. Provides How to Information for ISIS; also has a course offering directory:  http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/resources.html.
• Women's Center: http://www.Virginia.EDU/~womenctr/ To serve University students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members, highlighting leadership development, research, scholarship, art, counseling, and public service by and for women.

• Albemarle County Public Schools:  http://www.opendoors1.org/albemarle/  Life long learning opportunities for the adult community. Also: http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=1806  English As a Second Language & Adult Basic Education.
• Blue Ridge Literacy Council:  http://www.litcouncil.org/common.htm  Provides adults in Henderson County the English communication and literacy skills they need to reach theirfull potential as individuals, parents, workers and citizens.
• Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center (CATEC): http://www.catec.org  Establish a school of excellence and choice to serve students, staff and businesses.
• Charlottesville City Schools, Adult Learning Center: http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/programs/esl/index.html  Charlottesville English as a Second Language (ESL) Program.
• Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle:  http://literacyforall.org/  Provides one-on-one, confidential tutoring in basic literacy and English as a second language to adults living or working in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
• Massanutten Technical Training Center:  http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/mtc/MTC.html  Offer 19 different Career Programs for high school students in Harrisonburg City and Rockingham County.
• Monticello Avenue, Regional Adult Education (public classes):  http://avenue.org/education.htm  A community information network located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Education lists of links to the Public Schools, Private Schools, Preschools & Childcare, Home School Resources, Colleges and Universities, Camp – Charlottesville and Surrounding Area, Other Educational Resources. 
• Piedmont Virginia Community College, Workforce Development: http://www.pvcc.cc.va.us/   Committed to providing access to a college education for all who can benefit, an opportunity for each student to reach his or her potential.
• Valley Vocational Tech Center: http://www.augusta.k12.va.us/valleyvts/site/default.asp  Located in Fishersville, Virginia, is an integral part of the public school systems of Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro.  The center also serves adults.

• Commonwealth of Virginia Knowledge Center:  https://covkc.virginia.gdov/kc/login/login.asp?kc_ident=kc0001  You will find a wide variety of training and developmental opportunities designed to promote your professional and personal growth.
• Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Human Resource Management:http://www.dhrm.state.va.us/training.html  Offers a wide variety of training and developmental opportunities to the employees of the Commonwealth.  These opportunities are designed to promote both professional and personal growth for Virginia's high performance workforce.  Will require you to create a user name and password.
• Commonwealth of Virginia, The Library of Virginia:  http://www.lva.virginia.gov/  To organize, care for, and manage the state's growing collection of books and official records.  Provides links to ‘who we are’, ‘what we have’ and ‘what we do”.

• Albemarle County, Virginia Adult Basic Education:  http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=1806  General Adult Education (GAE) provides instructional services to Charlottesville, Albemarle County and other Central Virginia residents who are working toward a high school diploma (GED). Evening high school classes are offered to these students.
• Nelson County Adult Education   http://nelson.k12.va.us/adulteducation.htm  Free education to adults who have not completed high school.  Free pre-test/assessment, free materials, and free classes.
• Virginia Commonwealth University, The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center:  http://www.valrc.org/  http://www.valrc.org/ Provides adult education and literacy resources, publications, and training for teachers of adults in Virginia.

Information about the GED Exam:

• Regional Adult Eduation, Planning District 10, Adult Learning Center:  http://avenue.org/adulted/wn.html   Provides services for adults who lack basic skills, a high school diploma, or proficiency in English. Programs are primarily funded through Title II of the Workforce Investment Act.
• Virginia Commonwealth University, The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center:  http://www.vaged.vcu.edu/index.shtml  The GED is a group of five tests that measures skills that correspond to those of recent high school graduates.
• GED practice tests on the Internet:
  
  
  • http://www.4tests.com/ Offers GED practice tests for Science, Literature and the Arts, Math, and Social Studies. They give one question at a time, with an option of seeing the answer and, in math, how the problem is worked out. The site also scores the test for you.