Word: lapidus
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...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...
...those professionals in high-tech companies and accounting firms, as well as specialists in business management and international business, such quick-hit, targeted courses are crucial, LaPidus notes. But even doctors, artists and opera singers are going back to school for executive-education and high-tech courses...