Please note: Due to scheduled website maintenance and a system upgrade, registration for the Boot Camp course has been temporarily suspended. The course will be available for registration again this summer. 

Boot Camp – FREE

What Is CUPA-HR Boot Camp?

CUPA-HR Boot Camp is a self-paced e-learning course that offers a higher ed perspective on essential HR topics.

Who Should Take Boot Camp?

It’s ideal for anyone who could benefit from a basic understanding of higher ed HR — early-career professionals, HR staff who are new to higher ed, and others.

What Will I Learn?

The course offers a convenient way to get the basic knowledge needed to be successful in any HR role in higher education.

When you take the course, you’ll:

• Explore strategies and challenges related to workplace culture, employee retention, and HR leadership
• Work through scenarios to become familiar with FLSA job classification in higher education, including classification of support staff and faculty
• Become acquainted with important labor laws that impact higher education such as Title IX
• Learn about unionization processes and regulations for both public and private institutions

Boot Camp Content

This e-learning course consists of 8 modules:

• Leadership and Strategy
• Recruiting and Retention
• Compensation
• Benefits
• Employee and Union Relations
• Policy, Operations and Data
• Compliance
• Training and Organizational Development

Each module contains content related to that subject area as well as explanations and examples of their practical application to higher education.

Each module also contains a knowledge assessment to ensure participants have achieved a basic understanding of the content.

CUPA-HR Boot Camp was developed in conjunction with the association’s learning framework, which guides all CUPA-HR education and programming. Additionally, this course includes tie ins to other resources from the CUPA-HR Knowledge Center to help participants extend their learning.