Welcome to the Professional Development Program Data Collection System (PDPDCS)
The purpose of the Office of Indian Education (OIE) Professional Development Program (PDP) is to provide grants to eligible entities in order to increase the number of qualified Indian individuals in professions that serve Indian people; provide training to qualified Indian individuals to become teachers, administrators, teacher aides, social workers, ancillary educational personnel; and to improve the skills of qualified Indian individuals who serve in the education field. OIE awards grants to institutions of higher education (IHE) that then provide funding and support to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees and/or certificates in education. The participants who accept funding and training under this program must perform work that benefits Native people and is related to their training, or assistance must be repaid.
In the fall of 2012, OIE partnered with the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to develop the PDPDCS. This online system is responsible for collecting data from grantees and tracking participants who receive training benefits under the PDP. This system will provide reliable data to monitor participant payback compliance and measure grantee progress towards the program’s performance goals.
For more information on your role in the participant tracking process click on the Institutions of Higher Education, Participants, or Employers link. To update payback obligation information, please click on the Secure Login link.
You are accessing a U.S. Federal Government computer system intended to be solely accessed by individual users expressly authorized to access the system by the U.S. Department of Education. Usage may be monitored, recorded, and/or subject to audit. For security purposes and in order to ensure that the system remains available to all expressly authorized users, the U.S. Department of Education monitors the system to identify unauthorized users. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring and recording. Unauthorized use of this information system is prohibited and subject to criminal and civil penalties. Except as expressly authorized by the U.S. Department of Education, unauthorized attempts to access, obtain, upload, modify, change, and/or delete information on this system are strictly prohibited and are subject to criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C 1030, and other applicable statues, which may result in fines and imprisonment. For purposes of this system, unauthorized access includes, but is not limited to:
- Any access by an employee or agent of a commercial entity, or other third party, who is not the individual user, for purposes of commerical advantage or private financial gain (regardless of whether the commercial entity or third party is providing a service to an authorized user of the system); and
- Any access in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution of laws of the United States of any State.
If system monitoring reveals information indicating possible criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to law enforcement personnel.
