Colorado Springs, CO — The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, in cooperation with the American Management Association, will offer seminars leading to certificates in professional management beginning in October, university and AMA officials announced July, 2004.<\/p>\n
As part of an agreement between AMA and the university, CU-Colorado Springs is authorized to provide certificates under AMA’s College and University Seminar Alliance Program. The University will provide AMA-approved facilitators and instruction for individuals seeking seminars and certificates in finance, management essentials, leadership, marketing, administrative excellence and project management.<\/p>\n
“In today’s fast-changing business environment, working professionals must update their skills to compete in a global marketplace,” Dana Rocha, director, Extended Studies, said. “This partnership with AMA will allow the university to reach out to the community and to offer proven programs.”<\/p>\n
Edward T. Reilly, AMA president and CEO, said: “AMA has launched the College and University Seminar Alliance Program to bring the benefits of our proven course content, experienced facilitators and a dynamic, interactive classroom learning model to more people. By combining the strengths of each partner, AMA’s seminar content and course leaders, with the venues and local education market knowledge of colleges and universities each organization will more fully accomplish its educational mission and better serve its constituents.”<\/p>\n
“This partnership with AMA will allow us to quickly advance the knowledge of our faculty and instructors, educate students that meet the needs of today’s modern employers and support the mission of the College of Business to provide an innovative, learner-focused education of superior quality and value that integrates theory and practice,” Venkat Reddy, interim dean, College of Business and Administration, said. <\/p>\n
Beginning in October, the CU-Colorado Springs Extended Studies Department will begin offering nineteen AMA courses at Security Service Federal Credit Union, 1485 Kelly Johnson Boulevard, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80920. The following discounts will apply to all courses offered. Registrations submitted before October 31, 2004 will receive a $100 discount off each registration, as well as after two registrations, the third registration is free.<\/p>\n
For more information about upcoming seminars please contact Dana Rocha at (719) 262-4662 (drocha@uccs.edu) or Jodie Walker at (719) 262-3868 (jflemin2@uccs.edu).<\/p>\n
AMA was recently ranked in the top 20 best open-enrollment executive education programs by Business Week magazine. AMA is the world’s leading membership-based management development organization. Since 1923, it has provided valuable and practical action-oriented learning programs to business professionals at every stage of their careers. More than 50,000 AMA customers and members a year learn new skills and behaviors, gain more confidence, advance their careers and contribute to the success of their organizations through a wide range of AMA seminars, conferences and executive forums, as well as through AMA books and publication, research, and print and online self-study courses. For more information, visit www.amanet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n CU-Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 25 bachelor’s degrees, 17 master’s and two doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 7,800 students annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colorado Springs, CO — The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, in cooperation with the American Management Association, will offer seminars leading to certificates in professional management beginning in October, university and AMA officials announced (Full Press Release)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}