----------------------------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-