SCCCD hosts 23rd annual Mega Conference to encourage professional development for classified staff [Video]

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Many students may be out of class for Spring break, but the learning continues.

Staff from all campuses of the State Center Community College District gathered Tuesday at Fresno State for the 23rd annual Mega Conference.

Nearly 300 classified staff attended.

They are employees who are not professors at the colleges but support student success in many other ways.

Organizers Puma Jones and Jame Yang say the purpose is to promote professional development.

The theme of the conference was “Classified Dreaming.”

“Whatever your biggest dreams are, thoughts about your career, anything in life, we’re trying to encourage that here today,” Jones said.

The event kicked off with speakers, prizes and a college mascot dance-off.

“This is a great opportunity just to welcome everybody, have everybody just kind of network and get to know each other and bring that sense of community,” Yang said.

Some attendees have been to the conference before, but for others like Lindsie Sabol, who works at Reedley College, this …