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April 23, 2004

Earn Management Certification During Lake-Sumter Community Colleges Sumter Campus Business Courses

LEESBURG - Lake-Sumter Community Colleges joint certificate program, created through a partnership with the prestigious American Management Association (AMA), kicks off on the Sumter Campus this May. Administered through the colleges Corporate and Community Services office, the program is bringing top-quality business training to Lake and Sumter counties. In fact, a 2003 BusinessWeek survey identified AMA as one of the Top 20 Best Executive Education Programs in the nation. Students who complete five or six 15-hour courses within two years in any of the twelve areas of specialization are awarded a Management Certificate jointly signed by AMA and LSCC. For more information call 568-0001 for 352-365-3556 or visit www.lscc.edu/continuinged.

LSCC/AMA courses to be offered on the Sumter Campus in May include:

Fair, Square and Legal
Sumter CampusTuesdays, May 4 & 11, 8 am-4:30 pm. Cost is $187.
The program translates complex legal concepts and precedents into a set of simple guidelines for managing people.

Fundamentals of Marketing
Sumter Campus...Monday, May 10, 17 & 24, 5:30-8:30 pm. Cost $147.
Become a more dynamic marketing professional by understanding the entire marketing management process. Create your own marketing strategy, prepare an effective marketing plan, learn to collect data, evaluate e-commerce as a product distribution channel, and to sell your services and products.

LSCCs Continuing Education office is also offering Sumter Campus courses such as: Power of Personal Accountability on Monday, May 3, from 5:30 until 8:30 pm. Learn to tackle your business accountability problems by looking at some real-world situations and how to deal with them. Cost of the one-night course is $49. Another course for your employees is a topic from the
Grand Canyon Adventure for Creative Problem Solving. This course helps train teams, managers and executives in consensus decision making, team consultation, collaboration, and creative problem solving through simulation exercises. It will be held on Thursday, May 6, from 9 am until 12 noon. Cost is $49 per person.

An introductory course to help learn the skills to create your own web page using HTML will be offered by the colleges Computer Institute. The Web Page Creation class will be held on the Sumter Campus, Mondays, May 17 & 24, from 6 until 9 pm. Cost is $36.