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New professional certifications offered at TU

Whether you're starting a new career or boosting your resume, TU Continuing and Professional Studies can help you meet your career goals with new professional certification courses.

New Online Lean Six Sigma Program

Lean Six Sigma is a business management approach than can greatly improve any organization’s performance, with a focus on process improvement. Develop your quality management and project leadership skills with TU’s comprehensive program.

New Health & Medical Courses

We recently added new courses—medical billing, medical assistant, and pharmacy technician—to our full suite of health and medical courses to help you prepare for nationally-recognized certifications.

New CompTIA Courses

Looking to advance your IT career or join the growing cyber security field? Look no further. Our suite of courses will prepare you to succeed in the IT industry.

Entrepreneurship Events

Accelerator Showcase

Accelerator Showcase Launch

December 3, 2020, 3–4 p.m.
Join the StarTUp Accelerator for pitches and interviews of the inaugural cohort, along with commentary from President Kim Schatzel and Patrick McQuown, executive director of entrepreneurship.

ICYMI: Weekly Women Entrepreneurship 2020

Earlier this month, the StarTUp Accelerator connected our local entrepreneurship community—for the first time—with the global Weekly Women Entrepreneurship. View the recording to hear remarkable stories from leading female business leaders and entrepreneurs—all with TU ties.

A CLOSER LOOK AT MARYLAND’S ELECTION RESULTS

Accelerator Showcase

While Maryland’s election outcome wasn't a nail-biter, it’s interesting to look at the pattern of preference for president across our state, the margins of victory, and the winners when broken down by voting method. TU’s Center for GIS has developed a few maps to help you get a closer look at county-level election returns in Maryland.

CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN LEADERS

While the live sessions of TU's Professional Leadership Program for Women have been on hiatus since March, the program has continued to support participants with 1:1 executive coaching sessions. As the pandemic has stretched on, program facilitator Kathleen Case has shared insights that we can all use.

Claudia Towles

Maintaining focus, connection in extended WFH

Connecting, motivating, influencing and supporting each other (including yourself) is the pathway to achieve success in these challenging times.

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Tamera Rush

Discovering your own unique leadership power

TU's leadership program is rooted in developing an authentic leader and that leadership power is not position, but is choice.

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What's Driving Our Economy?

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Subscribe to Eye on the Economy

Each month TU's Regional Economic Studies Institute publishes Eye on the Economy, a monthly analysis of Maryland's unemployment numbers. To make greater sense of the numbers, RESI economists embed an interactive workbook and video to highlight how Maryland's economy compares to our neighboring states.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy on the economy

The work of Justice Ginsburg, during her time at the American Civil Liberties Union and the organization’s Women’s Rights Project, was pivotal in expanding economic opportunity for women and helped to cement her legacy as a trailblazer for gender equality. LEARN MORE

Engaging Our Communities

Patapsco state park

BTU partner highlight: Friends of Patapsco Valley State Park

Since 2012, TU students have helped this state park receive a Maryland Heritage Areas grant to create a mobile interpretive park center and develop an all-inclusive playground. LEARN MORE

Towson's Center for the Arts

Reflecting on community partnerships amid ongoing pandemic

The pandemic has changed what partnership engagement looks like. However, there are lessons learned that will help shape the future of partnerships at TU. LEARN MORE

TU News

Office hours: viruses and vaccines

Department of Biological Sciences professor explains some of the science behind viruses like COVID-19. LEARN MORE

TU was ready for Election Day

Take a look at the years of work that went into preparing TU for the 2020 general election and beyond. LEARN MORE

Lemonade from lemons

IWB pivots to hybrid model, safely seeing patients, and getting student-clinicians needed experience. LEARN MORE

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