Thank you for your comment. We encourage and assist our staff members in their career development endeavors in a number of ways. For a description of our training and development opportunities, please visit https://www.ida.org/careers/life-at-ida/training-and-development. We provide financial assistance to employees pursuing academic training via our tuition reimbursement and IDA Scholar programs. You are correct that for both programs, the courses must be related to the field in which staff are now working. While the tuition reimbursement program requires staff members to maintain employment for one year from the date of the course completion, the IDA Scholar program, which covers full tuition costs for a degree program, requires a two-year commitment from the date of the program completion.
