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AMA to Bring Its Public Seminars to College Campuses
NEW YORK, April 23, 2004—American Management Association
(AMA), the world’s leading membership-based management education
and development organization, has announced a new College and University
Seminar Alliance Program to offer its management training to business
professionals in their local communities. Through this initiative, AMA
intends to make available its most popular public seminars at more than
20 college campuses by 2006.
“AMA has launched the College and University Seminar Alliance Program
to bring the benefits of our proven course content, experienced facilitators
and dynamic interactive classroom delivery to more people,” said
Pat Leonard, AMA’s Executive Vice President, U.S. Management Education.
“By bringing together AMA’s seminar content and its course
leaders with the colleges’ knowledge of their local business community’s
education needs, each organization will more fully achieve its educational
mission and better serve its constituents.”
Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) was the first school
to enter into an agreement with AMA under the program. FCCJ’s Institute
for Leadership and Professional Development initially will offer 22 AMA
seminars and four AMA Certificates in Management Essentials, Finance,
Project Management and Administrative Excellence. Other schools currently
involved in AMA’s College and University Seminar Alliance Program
include the University of Tulsa and Johnson County Community College in
Overland Park, Kansas.
According to Leonard, the program is designed to support the efforts
of those education institutions that have an affinity with their regional
business communities and are looking to bring a practitioner-led, real-world
curriculum to their local markets. The program brings AMA’s seminars
closer to those looking to take advantage of the practical training that
can be applied to their businesses often the very next day.
AMA is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations acquire and
build the business skills they need to work more productively and successfully.
AMA, a nonprofit organization chartered by the Board of Regents of the
State of New York, offers over 170 seminars in a wide range of business
subject areas in open-enrollment forums at its Executive Conference Centers
in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and
at other venues in the United States, as well as with customized forums
at corporate client locations.
About AMA
American Management Association 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 500,000 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 publications, research, and print and online
self-study courses.
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