American College Awards Professional Designations.

The American College American College is the name of:

American College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
The American College in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
The American College of the Immaculate Conception, Leuven (also known as Louvain), Belgium

awarded 2,805 Chartered Life Underwriter underwriter n. a company or person which/who underwrites an insurance policy, issue of corporate securities, business, or project. (See: underwrite)

UNDERWRITER, insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer. (CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975.

CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. ) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designations in October during the college's conferment ceremony in Orlando, Fla.

In the 1999 academic year, the number of new CLU designees rose 23% to 1,577 from 1,286 in 1998. The number of new ChFC designees rose 7% to 1,228 from 1,153 the year before.

About one in five new designees is a woman. More than five in eight hold college bachelor's degrees.

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