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Quality Management Workshops

  • 1.  Quality Management Workshops

    Posted 03-06-2001 14:59
    On-Site Quality Improvement Workshops Information


    We are pleased to announce that Cornesky & Associates recently received
    another renewal of a foundation grant to conduct on-site Total Quality
    Management (TQM) / Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) workshops for five
    institutions of higher education. With our consulting fee of $500 per
    participant being covered by the grant, we can offer workshops at your
    institution for travel expenses and the price of the workshop materials. The
    travel expenses are from Greenville, South Carolina. The workshop materials
    are $30 per participant. Each workshop is limited to 20 participants. If you
    are interested in bringing any of these professional development
    opportunities to your institution, please contact us before March 15, 2000.
    Your President / CEO must submit a one page letter proposal that should:
    1. Describe your institution and the student population served
    2. Identify the workshop or workshops and the dates requested
    3. Indicate how the workshop(s) will benefit your institution
    4. Indicate the number of participants (20 maximum per workshop).

    Email proposals are acceptable, however, if your institution is approved, a
    hard copy of the letter must be received before final arrangements can be
    made. A selection committee is scheduled to meet and make the selections on
    March 16, 2001. All workshops must be completed before May 18, 2001.

    The two-day, in-depth workshops that have been approved are either classroom
    oriented or curriculum building oriented. They are described below.

    I. Classroom Oriented
    Turning CQI Into Classroom Practice: A Collaborative Approach

    This workshop introduces faculty to the "systems" approach where the
    classroom is examined from the perspectives of four systems: 1)
    thought-leader, 2) learning, 3) continuous improvement, and 4) reward. The
    workshop also introduces 15 CQI tools and techniques for effective teaching
    and assessment.


    II. Curriculum Oriented

    How to Use Quality Function Deployment to Build a Curriculum that Meets the
    Needs of Your Customers

    This workshop is intended to provide faculty with a flexible but disciplined
    planning and implementation procedure in which the customer's wants and
    needs
    are deployed throughout the curriculum of the academic major. The procedure
    is known as Quality Function Deployment (QFD). It provides a supporting
    system for making sure that customers' wants and needs are sought after and
    heard and then incorporated into the processes and systems of the department
    courses.

    Submit your letter proposal to:
    Dr. Robert A. Cornesky
    Cornesky & Associates
    1003 Ravenswood Drive
    Anderson, South Carolina 29625
    Phone: (864) 231-9780
    FAX: (864) 224-2436
    Email: TQM1BOB@AOL.COM