{"id":26111,"date":"2017-03-07T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T19:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26111"},"modified":"2017-03-07T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T19:55:45","slug":"college-of-business-adds-mini-mba-to-non-degree-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26111","title":{"rendered":"College of Business adds Mini-MBA to non-degree offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26118\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1585-cropped.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26118 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1585-cropped-300x327.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1585-cropped-300x327.png 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1585-cropped-138x150.png 138w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1585-cropped.png 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawna Rogers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Busy professionals who want to further their business acumen in a relatively short timeframe have a new option through the UCCS College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>The UCCS Mini-MBA, offered through the college\u2019s Office of Professional and Executive Development, will allow students to attend classes one night per week for 13 weeks, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will immediately apply classroom work within a capstone project, \u201c$75K in 75 Days.\u201d The project involves choosing and implementing a business strategy that will have a direct business impact of $75,000 within the referring organization in a 75-day timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Colorado Springs\u2019 business community has been asking for a non-degree program in business acumen,\u201d Shawna Rogers, director, Office of Professional and Executive Development, said. \u201cProfessionals have voiced a need to have big picture business skills \u2013 such as budgeting \u2013 to position themselves for promotion. We are excited to respond to this need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $3,100 program includes a light dinner before each session, parking, manuals and 3.9 Continuing Education Units through UCCS. All University of Colorado alumni, and those who have previously enrolled in Office of Professional and Executive Development courses, are eligible for a discount.\u00a0Additionally, successful graduates of the UCCS Mini-MBA who choose to pursue a master\u2019s degree in business will not be required to take the Graduate Management Aptitude Test. \u00a0The new program will begin April 5 and end June 28. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/business\/community-resources\/office-of-professional-and-executive-development.html\">uccs.edu\/business\/OPED<\/a> or call Rogers, (719) 255-5215.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Eric Nissen, College of Business<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Busy professionals who want to further their business acumen in a relatively short timeframe have a new option through the UCCS College of Business. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26111\" title=\"College of Business adds Mini-MBA to non-degree offerings\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Shawna20Rogers20small.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-6N9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26120,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions\/26120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}