Certified Financial Planners—A Hot Commodity

With baby boomers on the verge of retirement, financial planners are in high demand. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the rate of employment for personal financial advisors to increase by 32 percent by 2020—that’s more than twice the amount for the average growth of all occupations (14 percent).

“The industry is working toward financial access for all,” said Kathy Oakley, academic director for the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies’ CFP Graduate Certificate Program. “Working with a CFP^® practitioner can help consumers across all income levels feel more confident about achieving their financial goals, especially when the unexpected happens.”

If you’re looking for a career change in finance, Continuing Studies offers a CFP Graduate Certificate Program. Since this program’s start date in 2002, it has become one of Continuing Studies’ most successful programs.

“We offer classroom and online programs taught by instructors who are experienced practitioners,” said Oakley. “We can teach you the knowledge and decision-making skills you need to be eligible to take the CFP^® Exam, and we care about your success.”

Upon successful completion of the Continuing Studies CFP Graduate Certificate Program, students are awarded a Rice University certificate of completion, which fulfills the CFP Board’s education requirement. After completing the education requirement, students can apply to sit for the CFP^® Exam.

If our program piques your interest, head back to school this fall to jumpstart your career as a personal financial planner.

Be sure to join us for one of our upcoming free information sessions on campus or online to learn more.

Author

Rachael Shappard, Marketing Coordinator

The First of Many

As we prepare to send the fall catalog to the printer today, its contents stand in stark contrast to Continuing Studies first course offering. But, one thing has remained the same: our desire to meet the continuing educational needs of the Houston area.
We recently found a brochure from the very first course offered by Continuing Studies in June of 1968. “The Physical Basis of Hydrocarbon Processing at Low Temperatures” may not have appealed to everyone, but certainly set us on the path to providing educational opportunities for the Greater Houston community and beyond. See the entire brochure. (pdf)

The original press release from 1967 announcing the school states, “Rice University will establish an Office of Continuing Studies designed to counter the current problem of professional obsolescence.”

Today, the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies now attracts more than 15,000 enrollments each year to its non-credit and credit programs and is the leading university continuing education program in Houston.

Congratulations, 2013 LINE Students!

The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership is proud to announce the 2013 Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives certificate recipients:

Certificate with Distinction

• Barbara Bends
• Lauren Black
• Sandy Castillo
• Marci Dallas
• Julie Eberly
• Evin Erdowdu
• Jenny Lim Faber
• Kinga Ferguson
• Robert Loiseau
• Adam Martinez
• Ann Schorno
• Stephanie Wong
• Matthew Woodard

Certificate

• Denise Alexander
• Marketa de Rooy
• Lynn Edmundson
• Julie Falcon
• Mary Jane Hancock
• Floresa Hervey
• Terry Hodgson
• Karla Klay
• Steve Mikelman
• Everette Penn
• Cressandra Thibodeaux

These exceptional students were admitted to the 6th co-hort of the LINE program in August of 2012 and committed to 10 months of study to earn their certificates. They participated in class days devoted to fundamental aspects of leadership and organizational management, financial management, talent management, marketing and public relations, fundraising and legal and ethical issues for nonprofits. In addition, each student completed a practicum project that tackled a specific issue for a local organization. This year, twenty-four organizations were served by the students in the LINE program.

We look forward to working with the next group of professionals that are admitted to the LINE program this fall. Applications for the 2013-2014 co-hort are due on July 15, 2013, you can download an application on our website.  If you have any questions, please visit our website at line.rice.edu or contact the Center directly at 713-348-6009.

Raise a Glass!

Mary McIntire and Susie Glasscock
Photo by James Pomerantz

Special thanks to Mel and Susie Glasscock for naming the commons area of the new building the Dean’s Commons in honor of our Dean Mary McIntire. This is a well-deserved honor and highlights their special relationship.

We are so appreciative of the Glasscocks’ ongoing generosity and look forward to meeting in the Dean’s Commons in the near future!

The Whole Span of Life

It is no secret that one of our favorite quotes from Rice’s first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, is “Education does not begin with the university, nor does it end in the university. It is a matter of life, the whole span of life….” In continuing studies, we often think of this quote in terms of education continuing through adulthood. One of our programs, however, is applying this much-loved principle to the pre-university part of life.

The Rice Oral & Written Language Laboratory, or OWL Lab, was recently featured in Rice News. This program, part of School Literacy and Culture, is an ancillary classroom for prekindergar­ten students at Gabriela Mistral Center for Early Childhood. The OWL Lab enables more than 400 children and their teachers to interact with two teacher leaders recognized for their contributions to the field of early literacy  and work together through meaningful curriculum designed to promote children’s development in English speaking, listening and writing skills.

Watch the brief video below to see how the Glasscock School is helping fulfill the Rice vision across the whole span of life.

Author

Bret Newcomb, Marketing Specialist