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...semester-long intermediate-level computer-animation class. "You have to keep abreast of what's new in the field," observes Murphy as he sits in a dimly lighted room with six other students, all in their 20s and 30s, who are toying with the Alias animation program. "It seems like every three months or so there is another version of a software package or a new chip to learn about...
...Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., to study business topics like strategic planning, delivering client value and implementing corporate change. Klotsche's firm is investing $4 million to $5 million for all the Baker & McKenzie attorneys to take two-week executive-education management courses at Northwestern. The program, which began in May, will take about three years to complete. "In my wildest dreams, I never thought that I would need to study something like this," says Klotsche, who has been practicing law for 31 years. "But you have to understand the dynamics of today's global marketplace in order...
...increasing number of companies are customizing courses for their employees in conjunction with major universities. The former Coopers & Lybrand in the newly named PricewaterhouseCoopers, for example, has offered three-day and five-day executive-education programs for its partners for about four years at both Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and the Harvard Business School. "Companies want their employees to learn something new and specific that they couldn't do before," says Marie Eiter, director of executive education at Tuck. The school has been providing three programs a year for the former Coopers & Lybrand, with 40 professionals...
...particular, certificate programs, which issue documents of completion and sometimes an accreditation to students who have completed a specified course of study, are growing in enrollment by about 20% annually, says Jules LaPidus, president of the Washington-based Council of Graduate Schools, which represents 430 institutions. At Stanford's business school alone, the number of participants in its executive-education program is up almost 50% since 1991, according to program director Gale Bitter. The Kellogg school is expanding at a similar blistering pace. It had 44 executive-education courses with 2,700 participants in fiscal 1994; the number has jumped...
...City's Responsible Employer Ordinancerequires contractors to pay the prevailing wagerate, provide adequate health care coverage andoffer an apprenticeship program...