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Thirty instructional weeks may be all you need to gain behind-the-scenes entry into the $511 billion food industry. That's how quickly you can earn a Professional Culinary Arts diploma with the Accelerated Training System from Kitchen Academy. Here, the kitchen is your hi-tech classroom, boasting custom-designed, stainless steel professional dual-student workstations, equipment, and sleek LCD screens. Ingredients, of course, are quality assured. With a 16 to 1 student to instructor ratio, you will get the most from your interaction with distinguished professional chefs from California, New York and Paris culinary schools. This sharpens your culinary instincts - and chopping blade - for an entry-level position in culinary or hospitality industries. The program is focused as much on connecting you to your future career prospects as it is on making you a top chef: Prior graduates have taken six-week working externships at renowned kitchens including Wolfgang Puck Catering, The Renaissance Hotel and Opus.

Abilene Christian University's Superintendency Certificate is designed to prepare future school leaders for the essential position of superintendent of K-12 schools. The program is for practicing administrators and/or those with masters' degrees and principal certificates who wish to work toward Superintendent Certification. The Certificate has been built on national standards and the online format allows working professionals to fit required course work into their work schedule and complete their certification requirements without ever leaving home.

The Certificate has been designed to help students seeking superintendency:
• Understand the responsibilities of a superintendent from the perspectives of political dynamics and their connections to the policy process
• Evaluate educational facilities related to planning, financing, design, construction and maintenance.
• Evaluate the financing of public education to effectively produce student learning.
• Understand the foundations and contemporary issues in K-12 curriculum and assessment from the perspective of a superintendent.