----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I thought that this might be of interest to some on MAPS-L.
Alberta
|=================================================================|
| Alberta Auringer Wood, Maps, Data and Media Librarian |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, |
| CANADA A1B 3Y1. phone: 709-737-8892; fax: 709-737-2153; |
| Internet: [log in to unmask] |
| web pages: http://www.mun.ca/library/maps |
| http://www.mun.ca/library/media |
| http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~awood |
|=================================================================|
---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:40:48 -0400
>From: Robert E. Simanski <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Alberta Auringer Wood <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: ACSM to Inaugurate New Education Service
Press Release
For further information, contact:
Robert E. Simanski, ABC
Director of Communications
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 100
Bethesda, MD 20814-2122
Phone: 301-493-0200 Fax: 301-493-8245
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
October 9, 1996
For Immediate Release
ACSM to Inaugurate New Educational Service
The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) has announced a
new educational service, the Workshop Certification Program. The first
programs in the series will be conducted in North Carolina in the Fall
of 1997, at the invitation of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors
(NCSS).
A total of 24 workshops are planned. Detailed information about the 1997
program will be announced in November.
The Workshop Certification Program, which will address the needs of
surveyors, cartographers, and geodesists, will be built around half-day
workshops. These workshops will be certified by the ACSM Workshop
Certification Board (WCB), chaired by Robert Foster, a past president of
ACSM. The board was appointed by ACSM President James Plasker.
All persons who participate in the workshops will receive a certificate
showing the continuing education credit awards for the workshop. ACSM
will become the permanent registrar for all participants in the program.
Moreover, all workshops that address surveying will be pre-approved for
credit by all of the states that require continuing education.
Therefore, surveyors from these states will be able to satisfy
requirements through these workshop programs.
In addition to Chairman Foster, the WCB is composed of John E. Dailey, a
past president of both ACSM and the National Society of Professional
Surveyors (NSPS); Max Ethridge, president of the Cartography and
Geographic Information Society (CaGIS); Greg Johnson, a member of the
NSPS Board of Governors; Gary W. Thompson, a member of the NSPS Board of
Directors; David Doyle, a member of the ACSM Board of Direction; and
Steve Briggs, past president of the American Association for Geodetic
Surveying (AAGS).
-30-
|
