Looking at Wyoming-licensed schools

galanga · Dec 22, 2005

Number two on the State of Wyoming web page listing the state's licensed/not accredited post-secondary degree granting institutions is "AMERICAN CENTRAL UNIVERSITY" in Laramie, Wyoming.

Perusing its programs one finds a "Doctor of Philosophy in TQM" brochure here: http://www.acusa.net/pdf/dpt.pdf. The description of one of the courses is this:

PHD 702
ADVANCED QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
To understand and profit from Total Quality Management, companies must pay particular attention to the first word in the phrase-total. The spectacular rewards enjoyed by top companies like 3M, FedEx, and Ben & Jerry's were earned through a total commitment to achieving superior quality and customer satisfaction across all company functions and processes.

Advance Quality Management Systems also give students a completely up-to-date look at how 51 of the world's most successful companies put the total into TQM. Each of these companies, including 13 new additions and 23 Baldrige Award winners, is cited as a benchmark performer in a particular business function.

Their examples help you set your sights on specific goals and learn a variety of ways to go about achieving each goal. Each chapter features the best practices of one manufacturing company, one service company, and one small business. Following the examples set by these overachievers, students will discover:[the description ends abruptly]
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It is surprising to find nearly identical text on a webpage of the publisher Wiley describing one of its books: see
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471191744.html...

To understand and profit from Total Quality Management, companies must pay particular attention to the first word in the phrase-total. The spectacular rewards enjoyed by top companies like 3M, FedEx, and Ben & Jerry's were earned through a total commitment to achieving superior quality and customer satisfaction across all company functions and processes.

Total Quality Management, Second Edition gives you a completely up-to-date look at how 51 of the world's most successful companies put the total into TQM. Each of these companies, including 13 new additions and 23 Baldrige Award winners, is cited as a benchmark performer in a particular business function.

Their examples help you set your sights on specific goals and learn a variety of ways to go about achieving each goal. Each chapter features the best practices of one manufacturing company, one service company, and one small business. Following the examples set by these overachievers, you'll discover how to:
* Lead the transition from traditional management to management by quality...
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PHD 704 ("Managing Contemporary Projects") is another course with similar text to a pubisher's book description. (It's Prentice-Hall this time):

PHD 704
Managing Contemporary Projects
This course is designed to help students understand and implement the concepts of Project Management—the process of managing, allocating, and timing resources to achieve a given goal in an efficient and expedient manner—which has emerged as a separate discipline that is being increasingly embraced by various sectors, ranging from business to engineering. Comprehensive in perspective, this course presents an approach to project management—from planning through implementation —that integrates qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Practical in approach, it demonstrates with numerous examples how three categories of tools—management practices, optimization models, and computer applications—complement one another to enhance overall project management. The course considers traditional project management techniques, modern applications of operations, research methodologies, and computer applications, as well as supporting topics such as forecasting and inventory management.

It reviews other methodologies, such as regression analysis and decision making methodologies that a project manager can utilize.
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Compare that text with this publisher's description:

Project Management—the process of managing, allocating, and timing resources to achieve a given goal in an efficient and expedient manner—has emerged as a separate discipline that is being increasingly embraced by various sectors, ranging from business to engineering. Comprehensive in perspective, this book presents an approach to project management—from planning through implementation —that integrates qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Practical in approach, it demonstrates with numerous examples how three categories of tools—management practices, optimization models, and computer applications—complement one another to enhance overall project management. Considers traditional project management techniques, modern applications of operations research methodologies, and computer applications—as well as supporting topics such as forecasting and inventory management.

Reviews other methodologies, such as regression analysis and decision making methodologies that a project manager can utilize. Organizes chapters hierarchically to illustrate the incremental steps in a project management process— from setting project goals to terminating the project. Features numerous examples and a chapter-length case study.
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There's more-- see the "DOCTOR OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT" program described here:http://www.acusa.net/doh.php.

POSH 708 INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT
This course is aimed to bind together the traditional examination of time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management with a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health. It is intended to add reason, explanation, and illustration of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health. Industrial managers know the value of finding relevant and essential material to understand and develop a strategy for bringing their organizations into compliance with standards, reducing Workers' Compensation claims due to injuries and illnesses, improving productivity, and enhancing the overall well-being of their employees and their workstations.
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That bears a striking resemblance to this Prentice-Hall description:

The fifth edition of this book continues to bind together the traditional examination of time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management with a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health. It is intended to add reason, explanation, and illustration of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health. Industrial managers know the value of finding relevant and essential material to understand and develop a strategy for bringing their organizations into compliance with standards, reducing Workers' Compensation claims due to injuries and illnesses, improving productivity, and enhancing the overall well-being of their employees and their workstations...
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Umm...

AuditGuy · Dec 22, 2005

Kennedy Westerns PHD in Health Administration uses the words "intro to" or "overview of" in the large majority of their classes. Being in healthcare, my favorite is:

HA710 Health Maintenance Organizations
"Introduction to the strategic and operational resources needed for health managers to understand HMO's..."

Introduction... resources... understand...
I cover this in 30 minutes with our summer interns without granting 3 Doctoral Credits. I shudder to think of people in healthcare with this "credential".

Another good one is a Doctoral-level MIS course in their DBA program, which lists a recommended (not required) prerequisite of "a general understanding of computers and their application".

bullet · Dec 22, 2005

Geee

Is this the same operation owned by Schiller?

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