The Program Excellence Network (PEN) is committed to strengthening HRD academic programs and promoting excellence in teaching HRD.
To join the AHRD Program Excellence Network you must be an individual member in AHRD to have your organization join the PEN Network. View a list
of PEN member institutions below offering Academic Programs in HRD. Program Excellence Network of the Academy of Human Resource Development:
Its Purpose and Activities (pdf)
For more information about the PEN or for answers to specific questions, please contact Cynthia Sims.
Purpose
The Program Excellence Network (PEN) is committed to strengthening HRD academic programs and promoting excellence
in teaching HRD. It provides a forum for its members to explore, learn, and work together to shape the future direction of HRD education. This
includes professional development as well as fostering the scholarship of teaching.
Benefits of the PEN
- Annual meeting of delegates to foster networking, share best practices, engage in professional development,
and more!
- Access to a members-only online community where PEN members (and their faculties) can share academic
resources with each other.
- Opportunity to participate in and receive the results of benchmarking surveys.
- NEW - PEN Member Public Searchable Directory to promote your academic programs.
- Listing of your HRD academic program on the AHRD web site.
Also, in the future, the PEN will:
- Be a critical coordinator for innovative professional development related to mentoring/teaching/learning/leading
within AHRD
- Exploring a program to administer AHRD award(s) related to program excellence
- Implement initiatives designed to help shape the future direction of HRD education and ensure that
academic programs around the world are ready for the challenge!
Structure/Governance of the PEN
Chair: Cynthia Sims
The Program Excellence Network was created by AHRD Board of Directors at the Mid-Year Board Meeting in 2006. The Board appointed a Chair and a
coordinating committee who are charged with ensuring that the PEN is actively pursuing goals aligned with its purpose. Wendy Ruona, Associate
Professor at The University of Georgia and AHRD Board Member, is the founding chair. During PEN's inaugural year of February 2007 to February
2008, the committee, in consultation with PEN members, is working hard to develop the processes and structures that will guide PEN.
Joining PEN
PEN membership is institutional—meaning your HRD academic program joins. PEN is open to all graduate programs
worldwide that provide instruction, research, service and leadership in HRD. The annual membership fee is $99 USD.
Each program will designate
a PEN delegate. This delegate should be the chair/coordinator of the HRD academic program at the member institution (or their designated representative).
Delegates must be full-time faculty members actively engaged in HRD at their home institution and must be a current AHRD member. Delegates
will represent their HRD academic program at the annual meeting as well as be the primary contact for all PEN-related communications and business.
JOIN AS A PEN MEMBER
PEN Job Postings
Job postings are free for PEN Members. PEN Members: download
this form (docx) and complete the job
posting fields. We will ask for the completed form to post your job. Contact the AHRD office at office@ahrd.org
PEN LISTSERVS AND ETIQUETTE
These listservs are for AHRD PEN members only and are not moderated if email is sent from your member address. If you post from an email address
other than the one listed in your online Member Profile, your message will NOT be sent. At this time our listservs are only able to store
one email address for each member.
Subscribers should keep e-mail discussions relevant to the Mission and public issues of concern
to AHRD PEN members. Discussion happens through the asking and answering of questions and the sharing of resources via e-mail.
As a list subscriber, individuals receive copies of all e-mail sent to this listserv. When an e-mail message is sent to this
listserv by a subscriber, a copy is e-mailed to all subscribers. When replying to a listserv message the response goes to all subscribers.
Care should be taken to use an individual e-mail when a private message is sent.
List subscribers who disregard these guidelines
will be warned privately by e-mail on the first incident and unsubscribed from the list on the second incident.
Courtesy Guidelines
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Courtesy Guidelines
- Always remember that you are interacting
with people. Please be mindful of what
you post and never post anything you
wouldn't say to someone directly. Never
use the list for personal attacks or
profanity. If you wouldn't say it in
a crowded room for all to hear, do
not post it to the list.
- Write only public messages. The listserv
is a public forum. Personal comments
or criticisms should be sent directly
to the person and not the entire list.
- Sign postings with your brief contact information.
Additionally, including the current
equipment and versions you use will
help the reader to respond.
Content Guidelines
- Stick to the purpose of the list. The more
topic-specific the contributions are, the
more useful the list is for everyone.
- Make sure the subject line is descriptive.
If the subject changes, be sure to change
the topic in the subject line.
- Be brief, professional, clear and logical.
- Incidental off topic posts are ok;
however, please keep them to a
minimum and be sure to mark them
"Off Topic" or "Humor". Topics
such as religion and politics tend
to be controversial. Please steer
clear of these issues unless they
somehow involve our group.
- Do not send chain letters, spam,
flames (abusive messages about
another person) or solicitations.
Format Guidelines
- The less formatting used in your post the better.
- Always proof read and edit your posts before
sending. Poor spelling, grammar and punctuation
appear unprofessional on the sender's part.
To remove or add someone to the list, or if you are uncomfortable with certain uses of
the listserv, contact: office@ahrd.org.
