Accelerated learning: with an Executive Vice President and funds in place, NAAEI is shifting into high gear to promote apartment industry careers and develop online and classroom training.Moving forward with an aggressive agenda and considerable optimism, the National Apartment Association Education Institute (NAAEI NAAEI National Auctioneers Association Education Institute ) has achieved tremendous progress throughout its second year, having taken the lead in creating and developing products and services to help satisfy the apartment industry's most critical need--the hiring, training and retaining of its workforce. NAAEI in June surpassed its initial fund-raising fund-raising, large-scale soliciting of voluntary contributions, especially in the United States. Fund-raising is widely undertaken by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and political groups to acquire sufficient funds to support their activities. goal of $5 million, raising $5.26 million through mid-July. The pursuit of the second goal of $7.5 million is under way and will be directed, in part, by Stephanie J. Powers, who this month will begin serving as NAAEI Executive Vice President. Powers has more than 20 years' experience in public and non-profit program management, policy development and legislative outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. in workforce development, disability employment, youth employment programs and special education reform. Most recently she served as Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Workforce Boards in Washington, D.C., responsible for the executive management of a 650-member, $5 million non-profit national association representing state and local workforce investment boards Workforce Investment Boards (or "WIBs") are regional entities created to implement the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 in the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. , including strategic plan development, business plan and operations oversight
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Her state and local experience stems from more than 20 years of experience in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . At the federal level, Powers held the position of National School-to-Work Director for the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education from 1998 to 2001. Before that, she served as Chief of Staff and Director of Communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. between 1993 to 1998 at the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor. Among other notable accomplishments, Powers has received the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Achievement Award; was named Distinguished Alumna of Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Penn.; and received formal recognitions from the governors of New Hampshire This is a list of Governors of New Hampshire, in the United States. The Governor of New Hampshire has a term of two years, and can seek re-election. It is worth noting, however that the original title was President of New Hampshire. , New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). and Kentucky during her tenure as the National School-to-Work Director. "Recognizing the industry's critical shortage of skilled workers, the high employee turnover rate in the industry and the predicted exponential growth Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. of new apartment units, NAAEI will provide a new complement of workforce development resources and networks for NAA NAA Nomina Anatomica Avium. members and will focus its effort and leadership on finding effective solutions to the human resource challenges facing the apartment industry," Powers said. Powers said that through the use of technology, new connections and partnerships to workforce development sources and effective use of NAAEI's resources, NAAEI will develop innovative professional development opportunities for the incumbent workforce and actively market the industry's career pathways to prospective and future apartment professionals. "During the past two years, this industry already has shown its willingness to financially support the goal of making the apartment industry a premier field for sound, innovative management," Powers said. "My job will be to marshal An English word that means to arrange into a particular order as a means of preparation. See data marshalling. the array of knowledge development and training resources to help the industry to increase its workforce quality and long-term commitment to careers in residential property management." Getting to Work NAAEI President Bill Wollinger, President of WinnResidential, Boston, said Powers is the right person at the right time. "She is uniquely qualified to lead the Institute into the future and meet all of the challenges our industry is facing," Wollinger said. "NAAEI is fortunate to have a leader with Stephanie's background, capabilities and enthusiasm." Deane Dolben, CAPS, Chairman of the NAAEI Capital Campaign and President of The Dolben Company, is among the NAAEI donors and is proud of the industry's response to the Institute. "Just two years ago, the Institute was merely a plan to combine all of NAA's education entities to strategically focus on the industry's education needs," Dolben said. "Now, the resources and people are in place to help carry out the Institute's goals." Recent apartment industry studies suggest that success in tomorrow's ever-changing market place will depend on companies' willingness to change staffing models, hiring and compensation practices and current business practices. Successful apartment companies will transition from a property-centric to a resident-centric business platform. NAAEI acknowledged the urgency felt by its members who are addressing this crisis. PR Campaign to Promote Apartment Careers NAAEI has launched the development of a campaign to promote the apartment industry as a viable career choice of university and high school graduates and to develop current and future industry leadership. Working with renowned international pubic pubic /pu·bic/ (pu´bik) pertaining to or situated near the pubes, the pubic bone, or the pubic region. pu·bic adj. 1. relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, NAAEI is creating awareness of career tracks in apartment management, maintenance and leasing, targeting students in DECA DeCA Defense Commissary Agency (US DoD) DECA Delta Epsilon Chi DECA Distributive Education Clubs of America DECA Defense and Economic Cooperation Agreement (marketing), Family and Consumer Sciences and Trade and Industrial Education programs through a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and print collateral that touts the apartment industry as a career choice. To attract those students, the DVD and printed materials will provide an overview of the outstanding career opportunities presented by the apartment industry, focusing on key career tracks. The DVD will document current apartment industry employees' stories about how they entered the industry, will describe their career paths and will explain the advantages and benefits they have enjoyed while working in the apartment industry. Slated for completion this fall, the DVD and print collateral will serve as recruitment tools A recruitment tool is an advertising method that aids in creating interest in and getting people for a typically political organization. The term can not properly be applied to commercial advertising. and will be distributed across the educational and career sectors and will be used by affiliated apartment associations and other outlets. The apartment career awareness information will target high school and college students as well as potential "career changers
The Changers are a fictional group of anti-hero published by Wildstorm an imprint of DC Comics. ." This information will reach thousands of high school students through materials produced in a cost-effective and targeted way. NAAEI will seek to reach an audience C of high school students who are not planning to attend four-year colleges immediately upon graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. , but instead are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. full-time employment after high school or are pursuing part-time employment while they attend community colleges or career and technical schools. Online Learning Becoming Available NAAEI has entered into a partnership with Rio Salado Community College Rio Salado College, known as "the college within everyone's reach," is the largest of the 10 Maricopa Community Colleges and has never built a traditional campus. Rather, from its Tempe, Arizona administrative headquarters, Rio Salado utilizes technology and forges partnerships to , based in Tempe, Ariz., which will develop online certificate programs in apartment management, leasing and maintenance for credit toward a two-year associate's degree as·so·ci·ate's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a two-year college after the prescribed course of study has been successfully completed. . This marks the first step forward in attracting professionals of all ages to apartment careers by providing an affordable, convenient, high-quality education through distance learning. Using the NAAEI designation curriculum as a foundation, Rio Salado is creating coursework coursework Noun work done by a student and assessed as part of an educational course Noun 1. coursework - work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's that translates into college credits and allows a student to progress toward earning a degree in residential property management (RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. ). Being able to deliver this designation coursework 24/7, and eventually in multiple languages to anyone in the world, is a critical step in the process of career development for the industry. "For NAAEI's certification programs' curricula to be approved for college credits puts us in a new league," said Tony Pusateri, CAPS, CPM (1) (Critical Path Method) A project management planning and control technique implemented on computers. The critical path is the series of activities and tasks in the project that have no built-in slack time. , Senior Vice President of Property Services, Equity Residential. "Rio Salado is the leader in this online education and training field. Allowing people to study apartment management, leasing or maintenance from home, at work or anywhere an Internet connection is available creates a tremendous opportunity for our industry to add to our workforce." Rio Salado, funded through Maricopa County, Ariz., has 27 years of experience in online teaching. Its award-winning learning model is accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by The Higher Learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) is one of six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and Council for Higher Education Accreditation. . Known as "the college without walls," Rio Salado Community College, part of the Maricopa Community Colleges, has never built a traditional campus. Instead, from its administrative headquarters, Rio Salado uses technology and forges partnerships to deliver educational opportunities to diverse populations. Unlike Phoenix University, Rio Salado is a publicly funded entity of state and local government. Its purpose is to serve local, national and international communities through e-learning and collaborative partnerships. It provides general education and courses for university transfer by offering applied programs that are aligned with workforce needs in business, industry and government. Pusateri said that online learning enables the apartment industry to bring people immediately from school to the job with the skills and preparation necessary. And with an associate's degree, they are in a position to advance their degrees to a bachelor's, master's or doctorate without having to take duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. courses or incur added costs. Rio Salado is capable of translating the curriculum into other languages. "Online learning opens the possibility of recruiting employees abroad," Pusateri said. "The courses would become immediately available in countries where people already speak English." Grants Support Staffing at University Programs NAAEI extended grants to Virginia Tech, Ball State University, University of North Texas and University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. to support faculty at existing RPM programs and to increase the number of high school students who choose RPM as a major. When NAAEI met with professors from the existing RPM programs last fall, the group identified the need for professors who have both property management experience and the education credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. to teach at a university. Employing tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured faculty members with apartment industry experience to teach RPM is in the best interest of the apartment industry. "For the short-term, these grants help to provide universities with professors who have apartment industry experience to teach RPM courses," said NAAEI Board member Ron Lester, Group Vice President, Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , Archstone-Smith. NAAEI is helping to support adjunct adjunct (aj´ungkt), n a drug or other substance that serves a supplemental purpose in therapy. adjunct professors with apartment industry experience and Ph.D. candidates who have years of property management experience and who have decided to go back to school to earn their Ph.D.s, the first step to be appointed to a full-time faculty position. Once these apartment management practitioners earn their degree, NAAEI will help support their research and publication efforts, which are critical to the university tenure process. NAAEI grants also are helping to fund the effort to recruit high school students to RPM. A series of nine, one-day mini-camps for high school students was designed to expose them to the apartment industry through apartment community tours and networking with RPM students, alumni and university advisory board members. The first such mini-camp is scheduled for this fall at Ball State University. Rewritten CAM Course Well Received NAAEI rewrote the Certified See certification. Apartment Manager (CAM) designation program to include the enhanced financial, management and HR responsibilities of today's apartment manager. Available since January 2006, this is the first major revision of one of NAAEI's most popular designation programs. The CAM program is a 60-hour classroom-based program intended to provide management personnel with the skills and knowledge required to effectively manage apartment communities. NAAEI hired Performance Technology Associates, Beverly, Mass., to provide curriculum development services. Howard L. Campbell, Ph.D., CPM, an Assistant Professor in the Residential Property Management Program at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., served as editor and subject matter expert and led the reorganization and revision. "The response from students, professors and trainers has been excellent," Campbell said. "About 50 percent of the materials are either new or updated, and they are presented in a much easier way to read and teach. The study materials are serving as an ongoing reference guide for people entering the apartment workforce. This information is more than just something you study to pass the CAM test." Career Path Development Information Presented NAAEI has increased awareness of RPM as a major among university housing professors and is continuing this outreach to increase the number of RPM programs nationwide. NAAEI was a major sponsor of the Housing Education and Research Association (HERA) annual meeting in Denver last fall. NAAEI board members Pusateri and Lester made a presentation on the apartment industry's need for talent during the next five years and provided apartment management career path information. Additional Accomplishments Maintenance Curriculum to Receive Upgrade. NAAEI will use results of needs assessment research it is conducting to rewrite re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. the Certified Apartment Maintenance Technician See PC technician and software technician. (CAMT CAMT Certified Apartment Maintenance Technician CAMT Canadian Association for Music Therapy CAMT Colorado Association for Music Therapy CAMT Canadian Academy of Manipulative Therapy CAMT Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching ) program to better meet the needs of entry-level to seasoned maintenance employees. HR, Recruitment, Training and Retention Summits Held. More than 20 human resources, training and recruitment professionals attended summits held in March 2005 and March 2006 to provide NAAEI with direction and to help prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. the industry's recruitment, training and retention needs. Industry Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. Model Development on Tap. NAAEI will engage a firm in fall 2006 to begin development of the first industry-wide job standards. Apartment Career and Education Leaders Recognized. In June, NAAEI recognized two individuals by presenting its first-ever Apartment Career and Education (ACE) Awards at the 2006 NAA Education Conference & Exposition. Rosemary rosemary [ultimately from Lat.,=dew of the sea], widely cultivated evergreen and shrubby perennial (Rosmarinus officinalis) of the family Labiatae (mint family), fairly hardy and native to the Mediterranean region. It has small light-blue flowers. Goss n. 1. Gorse. , Ph.D., Professor, Virginia Tech, was presented with the ACE award for an apartment management educator. The ACE award for an apartment management practitioner was presented to Pusateri. Paul R. Bergeron III is NAA's Director of Communications. He can be reached at 703/797-0606 or paul@naahq.org.
Thank You to Our NAAEI Investors
Company Representative Amount
Equity Residential David Neithercut, President $1,000,000
Archstone-Smith Trust R. Scot Sellers, President $500,000
Camden Property Trust Rick Campo, Chief Executive $250,000
Officer
The Dolben Company Deane Dolben, CAPS, $250,000
President
McDougal Companies Mike McDougal, CAPS, CPA, $250,000
President
National Apartment Board of Directors $250,000
Association
National Multi Housing Board of Directors $250,000
Council
United Dominion Realty Tom Toomey, President and $250,000
Trust Inc. CEO
Greystar Real Estate Tom Shelton, CAPS, CPM, $200,001
Partners Regional Partner
WinnResidential Sam Ross, CEO $150,000
Apartment Careers John Cullens, President $100,000
Apartment Guide Printernet Bob Metz, President $100,000
BRE Properties Connie Moore, President $100,000
Coinmach/Appliance Warehouse Mitchell Blatt/Ramon $100,000
Norniella, Presidents/
CEOs
First Communities Management Rob Johnston, CAPS, CPM, $100,000
President
Florida Apartment Board of Directors $100,000
Association
Hepfner, Smith, Jim Hepfner, CAPS, CPM, $100,000
Airhart & Day Inc. President
The Home Depot Supply Anesa Chaibi, President $100,000
Lincoln Property Company Tim Byrne, President $100,000
Post Properties Inc. David Stockert, President $100,000
and CEO
Related Management Company Jeffery Brodsky, President $100,000
SARES-REGIS Group Jim Thomas, President $100,000
Multifamily
Gables Residential Services David Fitch, President $75,000
and CEO
Bay Area Apartment Board of Directors $50,000
Association
ECI Group David Hirsch, CAM, $50,000
President
Texas Apartment Association Board of Directors $50,000
Education Foundation
Greater Dallas Apartment Board of Directors $25,000
Association
Apartment Association of Board of Directors $25,000
Tarrant County
Auth-Florence Manufacturing David Dailey, President $25,000
Liberty Executive Search Ken Bohan, President $25,000
Moran & Company Mary Ann King, President $25,000
Lubbock Apartment Jeff Lowry, CAPS, President $15,000
Association
ACCU Inc. David Phifer, CAPS, $10,000
President
Career Options Lauren & Lynett Brockman $10,000
Leeder Management Company Earle Leeder, President $10,000
Richmond Apartment Board of Directors $1,000
Association
Personal Gifts Amount
Douglas & Cindy Crocker $100,000
Michael & June Tompkins $60,000
Jerry & Bev Wilkinson $30,000
Tamela Coval $10,000
Doug & Liz Culkin $10,000
Tom Day Family $10,000
Alex Jackiw $10,000
Maureen Lambe & Harold Schafke $10,000
Suzanne & Chris Lovelace $10,000
John & Pat McDermott $10,000
Joe & Vicki Sharp $10,000
Ron & Mary Lynn Shelton $10,000
Buddy Wilton $10,000
Bill & Janice Wollinger $10,000
Anonymous $7,500
Linda Page & Barbara Haynes $5,000
Diana Pittro $1,500
Gail Scott $1,000
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