NEW! Business Leadership Fundamentals: Early Career to Executive
Designed for veteran and emerging executives, mid-level managers and aspiring leaders in administrative support positions, Business Leadership Fundamentals courses offer in-depth instruction, real-world insights and proven business strategies to take your business and your career to the next level.
Based on leading-edge research and designed by some of the foremost experts in their fields, courses examine a wide range of issues in targeted subject areas, offering practical tools and leadership strategies that can be used immediately in the workplace.
Each Business Leadership Fundamentals course takes a fresh look at business applications, management practices and leadership development to stimulate ideas, growth and advancement — and improve the bottom line. Learn more»
Take a course. Build a certificate.
Enrich your career.
Choose the best option to meet your immediate professional needs from hundreds of one- and two-day short courses in up-to-the-minute topics, or combine courses to earn a 10-course certificate in Supervisory Management, Human Resources Management or Public Management. Learn more»
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Prepare to join one of the nation's fastest-growing fields! Did you know that job opportunities for trained paralegals are projected to increase by nearly 30 percent between 2004 and 2014? Since 1992, Extended Studies has provided noncredit paralegal education of the highest caliber.
Now, in addition to the Paralegal Studies Certificate, professionals may choose the new Legal Research for Paralegals and Legal Assistants or Legal Writing for Paralegals and Legal Assistants. Learn more»
Top faculty. Innovative ideas.
No matter where you are in your professional life — early career, middle management or executive level — Extended Studies helps you hone your skills with world-renowned faculty, award-winning instructors, and a wide variety of courses packed with innovative ideas you can use — at any level — in the workplace today.
Whether you are studying for a degree, taking online, evening or weekend courses, or looking for professional development and management courses in a specific subject, we’re here to make your educational pursuits affordable, achievable and right on target.
Your education is our business. Email me at fholman@unr.edu, or give me a call. Let us know how you’re doing — and how we can do more!
Sincerely,
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Fred B. Holman, Ph.D.
Vice Provost


