UWT offers courses for professionals

Professionals seeking to add new skills to their portfolios can get a head-start on one of three certificate programs offered at University of Washington, Tacoma. Beginning next month, professionals can learn advanced techniques and the latest trends in the areas of fundraising, human resources management, and paralegal studies.

Applications are being accepted now for the 2006-07 certificate programs. Single classes start the last week in March. Offered through the KeyBank Professional Development Center at UWT, courses available next month include:

— Professional Philanthropy

— Benefits

— Compensation, Reward Systems and Performance Management

— Business Law

— Litigation Specialties

— Complex Litigation

For full detail of courses and certificate programs, go to http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/pdc , or call the Professional Development Center at (253) 692-4618.

The KeyBank Professional Development Center at UW Tacoma offers a wide range of continuing education courses, seminars and workshops for public- and private-sector professionals and groups. The center is made possible at UWT by a generous gift from KeyBank and the Dimmer Family Foundation.