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Project Management Center

 

Suite 3100
University Center Building C
Tallahassee, FL 32306 Map

Contact: Grad Admissions
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phone number 850/644-5034

 

Mission Statement

The mission of the FSU Project Management Center is to promote the study and practice of project management as a discipline. The Center focuses on research, scholarship, and professional development activities that are of immediate interest and value to practicing project managers.

Mission Overview

Scholars from the Project Management Center will consider closely the needs of practicing project managers and involve them from time to time in their research and scholarship. This collaborative synergy between scholars and project managers will characterize the central mission of the FSU Project Management Center. The long-term goal of the Center will be to establish a Center of Excellence for the study and practice of project management serving Florida State University, the Southeast, and the United States.

Goals of the Center
The Project Management Center currently manages our academic Graduate Certificate program in Project Management described on several of the following and associated pages. 

The faculty affiliated with the Center are actively engaged in instructing courses, developing workshops, and/or conducting research that achieve the goals of the Center.

 

 

Center News

 

Workshop Plans
In 2008, the Center will begin offering workshops. The first two workshops scheduled are Project Time Management and Project Management Fundamentals, both scheduled for July 2008. For more details, click on the respective hyperlink (red text). Additional workshops will follow in the months ahead. Workshops offered by the Center will provide an opportunity for all participants to hone their project management skills and for certified PMPs to earn their required Professional Development Units (PDUs) locally.


PMI's R.E.P. Status Earned
The Center has been approved by the PMI as a Registered Educational Provider (R.E.P.) An R.E.P. is an organization approved by PMI to issue PDUs for its training courses. The Center's first approved course is Introduction to Project Management (COM5450).

 

2008 Graduate Certificates
Graduate project management certificates were awarded to three students at the end of of the 2008 Spring semester:

  • Regine Jean-Charles
  • Anabelle Reta
  • Sarah Tweedie

Congratulations to all!

At this juncture, the total number of certificates awarded to students is 33.