New Courses from the CPD
Whether you’re looking to upgrade the skills needed for your current career or wish to be trained for a new one, The Center for Professional Development has offerings that are right for you. Our newest non-credit programs include:
Nature Guiding — Gain the essential skills necessary to become a successful nature guide, whether you are leading a nature tour on foot, kayak, raft, bicycle or vehicle, or presenting a nature program to an indoor audience.
Medical Ethics Certificate — A state-of-the-art ethics curriculum with video case studies, complemented by nationally recognized expert opinion, is delivered for individual learning into the virtual classroom. This program is especially relevant for doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals as well as those who sit on hospital ethics boards.
English for Medical Professionals: A Communication Course for Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists — Improve your English language skills and your ability to interact more successfully in any health care setting. The nine modules in this course focus on real-world issues faced by non-native English speakers working in U.S. hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and public health facilities. The course is designed to help you gain more confidence in communicating with patients as well as with other hospital or medical personnel.
English for Medical Professionals: A Communication Course for Home Health Care Aides and Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAPs) — Improve your English communications skills and your ability to interact successfully in a professional manner in home health and other health care settings. The nine modules in this course focus on real-world issues faced by non-native English speakers working in private homes as well as U.S. hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and public health facilities.
More than 100 courses are available through the Center for Professional Development, and over 60 are approved for benefits for active duty military service- members and veterans. For additional information, go to
www.excelsior.edu/cpd or call toll free 888-647-2388, ext. 118211.
Excelsior Hosts HBCU Workshop on Distance Learning
This past summer, the College held an innovative workshop titled “Going Online: Increasing Access While Keeping Traditions Alive,” to begin laying the groundwork for future alliances with institutions serving minority students.
Representatives from 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) participated in the two-day event. Excelsior College served as the primary underwriter with assistance from Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine.
“Our goal for the workshop was to demonstrate the College’s commitment to minority-serving institutions, starting with HBCUs,” said President John Ebersole. “This is a sector of higher education that has not yet fully embraced online delivery, despite research showing that a substantial percentage of minority learners do seek this option. We believe that with Excelsior’s long experience in the field and cutting edge online learning technologies, we can help these institutions improve their efforts.”
The HBCU event drew educators and administrators from a great variety of institutions such as Tom Joyner Online Education, the Sloan Foundation, Fayetteville State University, Thomas Nelson Community College, Franklin University, and Morgan State University. Discussions and presentation topics ranged from getting started with online education, student support strategies, growing and marketing programs, and faculty engagement, to the use of multimedia in online learning.
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