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Sustained success characterizes KU-ABWA partnership

Rene Street, COO of American Business Women's Association

Rene Street, COO of American Business Women's Association

Thursday, March 8, 2007

For the last five years the American Business Women's Association (ABWA) has partnered with the KU School of Business to provide its members with career-enhancing opportunities. According to RenŽ Street, ABWA's chief operating officer, the success has been stunning. "The KU professors receive the highest scores of any outside business experts ABWA has ever hired," Street says. "Our members are very vocal about what they like and don't like, so those marks are quite impressive." To date, more than 380 ABWA members have participated in KU-ABWA programs. The partnership is quite simple and tremendously effective. ABWA works with the School's Center for Management Education (CME) to develop and deliver two programs: MBA Essentials and the Management Certificate Series. The programs teach participants the basics of KU's MBA degree. Professors teach rotating sets of courses at ABWA national conferences, allowing ABWA members to earn an MBA Essentials certificate of completion in about three years. "KU has the name recognition and the cutting-edge research we wanted," Street admits. "We knew that going in, but they've completely exceeded our expectations." KU's CME provides customized employee development courses for clients, including up-front assessments, short-term classes, and complete programs. For more about its capabilities, visit http://www.business.ku.edu/EducativeEducation

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