Degree Telephone Seminars

Intellectual Disabilities and Employer ADA Obligation ...concentrate, communicate and interact with others, to one degree or another, the intellectual disability accommodation issues facing employees are both extremely complex and challenging. This live audio conference will give the tools to assess if an individual has a covered intellectual disability, and if so, how the employer should determine if the individual is qualified. Finally, it will  more...

Strategies for Successful Mixed Use Development BenefitsThe ideals and reality of mixed use as the preferred urban form are still in their relative infancy as part of the 21st century development vocabulary. Ironically, the ideals behind the tremendous push for this development form reference the urban fabric of our oldest cities. The driving factors behind the attraction to the mixed use model include current trends and attitudes toward a more  more...

The WE in Wellness--5 Skills Every Case Manager Should Know for Effective Case Management ...degree of wellness requires many skills and a repertoire of approaches, some which may be new to case managers and the teams with which they work. The specialty of Case Management has become more and more crucial for the coordination of an individual client's healthcare provided by multidisciplinary teams within and between organizations and systems. As clinical case managers become central to  more...

Municipal Finance Fundamentals ...h a favorable rate of return and yet afford them a higher degree of security. Increasingly, investors are looking to the United States tax-exempt municipal market to obtain those two objectives. As a result, the volume of the municipal market in primary and secondary trading has expanded significantly over the last decade. Many of the new investors in the municipal market have been long-term  more...

Keys to Understanding and Writing Purchasing Contracts ...asers demonstrate their level of professionalism by their degree of sophistication in writing their own contracts. Many purchasers relinquish their responsibility for writing contracts and leave it up to their legal staff to accomplish this critical skill. A few purchasers develop their knowledge, skills and ability writing contracts, and thus distinguish themselves within their organizations  more...