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ARLINGTON,
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UMT President, Yanping Chen, MD, PhD, PMP, Designated as A Fellow of the Project
Management Institute
UMT is pleased to announce that its president, Yanping Chen, MD, PhD,
PMP, has been designated by the Project Management Institute (PMI,)
the world's largest association for project managers, as a Fellow of
the Institute. The PMI Fellow Award, which is the most prestigious
award that PMI confers on an individual, was presented during PMI's
annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 20 October 2012 at the Vancouver
Convention Centre, Canada. |
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About the Recipient
Dr. Chen is President
of the University of Management and Technology, an
accredited US-based university that delivers project
management degree programs globally, offering academic
scholarships to promote project management higher learning
through the PMI Education Foundation. She served the
Project Management Institute as a volunteer for twenty
years. In the early and mid-1990s, she was deputy director
of the Project Management Professional Certification
Committee. She was elected to sit on the PMI global
Board of Directors for six years (2005-2010), where
she served as Vice Chair of the Board and headed several
Board committees.
A cardiologist turned
program manager, Dr. Chen served as Director of Planning
for the China manned space flight program and was responsible
for managing more than 200 projects and programs concurrently
during the 1980s. Her group established the groundwork
for China's launch of astronauts into space beginning
in 2003.
Dr. Chen was the first
Chinese citizen to earn the Project Management Professional
(PMP®) credential. Her volunteer involvement with PMI
began in 1992 when she served the PMI Certification
Committee as its Deputy Director. Throughout the 1990s,
she served as PMI's ambassador to promote PMI and its
certification program in China, including the translation
of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide) into Chinese. She was instrumental in
facilitating PMI's collaboration with the Chinese government
to launch the PMP exam in China. She served on the
PMI Registered Education Provider (REP) Advisory Group,
and was elected two terms to serve on PMI's Board of
Directors, in 2005-2010. While on the Board, Dr. Chen
held positions as PMI Officer and PMI Vice Chair of
the Board of Directors, and chaired two task forces
on PMI Core Values and PMI Board Building.
During her career, Dr.
Chen also served as director of four Chinese professional
scientific societies, and received national awards
in space medical research on eight occasions. She served
as an International Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution
from 1991-92, and resident & CEO of Yankee Clipper Group from 1992-98. She has published more than 20 scientific
articles and authored two books, including Principles
of Contracting for Project Management. She earned her
PhD in Public Policy and MA in Science and Technology
Policy from George Washington University, and earned
the MD in China.
Source: https://www.umtweb.edu/ShowNews.aspx?id=104
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ARLINGTON,
Virginia, Dec 21, 2012 |
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UMT Named A "Military-Friendly University" by Military Advanced Education for the 3rd Consecutive Year
UMT is pleased to announce that it has been named as a "Military-Friendly
University" by the Military Advanced Education (MAE) magazine for the 3rd consecutive year.
UMT is listed in the MAE's Annual Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges
and Universities, published in December 2012. |
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ARLINGTON,
Virginia, Oct 10, 2010 |
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UMT President and Academic Dean meet President William J. Clinton
Dr. Yanping Chen, UMT President and PMI Board of Directors, and Dr.
J. Davidson Frame, UMT Academic Dean and PMI Fellow, met President
Clinton in a private reception honoring him as PMI Global Congress
keynote speaker in Washington DC, USA. PMI arranged this private
reception and meeting to celebrate the service and dedication of
Dr. Chen and Dr. Frame to the Project Management Institute and project
management profession. |
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ARLINGTON,
Virginia, May 31, 2010 |
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UMT Enrollments Rank in Top Ten for Air University Associate-to-Bachelor Cooperative
Program
The University of Management
and Technology (UMT) is pleased to disclose that, since
joining Air University’s Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative
(AU-ABC) program in 2007, it has earned a prominent place
on the exclusive, short list of schools allowed to participate.
UMT enrollments of USAF servicemembers currently rank in the top ten among AU-ABC
participant schools, according to data maintained by
the Academic Institution Portal – which allows information
sharing between Academic Institutions and Department
of Defense Systems for Air Force Automated Education
Management System (AFAEMS), Air Force Virtual Education
Center (AFVEC) and Military Spouse Career Advancement
Accounts (MyCAA).
Successful completion
of any of the CCAF AAS degrees guarantees the Airman
or woman 60 semester credit-hours transfer (of which
at least 15 will count as general education) toward
a UMT bachelor's degree.
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 19, 2008 |
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UMT President and 2008 Vice Chair of
PMI Board of Directors, Dr. Yanping Chen, and UMT Academic
Dean, Dr. J. Davidson Frame, met General Colin L. Powell,
USA (RET.) in a private reception honoring General Powell
as PMI Global Congress keynote speaker at Denver, Colorado,
USA. |
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From left, General Colin Powell; PMI Vice Chair Yanping Chen, MD, PhD, PMP; UMT
Academic Dean,
Dr. J. Davidson Frame. |
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 19, 2008 |
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Dr. Yanping Chen, president of the University
of Management and Technology (UMT) and Project Management
Institute (PMI) Vice Chair, attended the Forbes Leadership
Networks Forum in Boston on 19 June 2008. |
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This annual event is attended by executives from the fortune 500 companies as
well as other global business leaders. The main topic
of this year’s forum is innovation.
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 7, 2007 |
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Dr. Yanping Chen has been elected Vice
Chair of the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 2008.
She has been a Director-at-Large on the 15-person PMI
Board of Directors — representing over 250,000 PMI members
in 171 counties — since 2005 and is currently serving
her second term, which is from 2008 to 2010.
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2007 PMI Forum in China (Beijing), 2007 July |
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UMT's president, Dr. Yanping Chen attended the 2007 PMI
China Government forum in Beijing as one of the PMI
Board of Directors.
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美國太空總署 NASA, February 28, 2007 |
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UMT's President, Dr. Yanping Chen participated in the NASA PM Challenge Conference
2007. NASA's ASK OCE (Office of the Chief Engineer) interviewed
Dr. Chen and PMI's President, Greg Balestrero. As a former
China space program expert and a PMI Board of Director,
Dr. Chen raised issues and challeges on how to manage
program and project knowledge internally, externally
and cross-generationally. |
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WASHINGTON DC, Janaury 4, 2007 |
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UMT 's Academic Dean, Dr. J. Davidson Frame was the guest speaker at the Washington
DC Chapter's International Project Management Day celebration.
The International Project Management Day is on 2 November
every year. It's "a day of recognition of project managers and the important contributions they
make in business, government, community and not-for-profit
environments." |
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 17, 2006 |
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UMT earned Specialized and Professional Accreditation for its Project Management
degrees by the Global Accreditation Center (GAC) for the
Project Management Institute® (PMI). GAC is the governing
body for the policies, procedures, and standards for the
accreditation of university degree programs related to
project management.
Other schools that have been accredited by PMI GAC include:
University of Maryland
Boston University
Stevens Institute of Technology
The University of Texas at Dallas
Groupe ESC Lille ISGI
Western Carolina University
University of Quebec
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