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UNCG’s Amoako-Gyampah Receives $76, 479 Grant to Train Supply Chain Managers
GREENSBORO, NC – Dr. Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah, head of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Research in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received a grant to develop an academic program to train managers and executives in the field of supply chain, logistics and transportation management (SCLTM).
The $76,479, one-year grant, was awarded by the Piedmont Triad Partnership under its Transformation and Innovation Grant Programs. That grant is funded through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Workforce Innovation in Regional Development (WIRED) grant.
UNCG is one of three recipients of the Piedmont Triad Partnership’s Transformation Grant.
The grant will fund student recruitment and development of a new program at the Bryan School aimed at training managers and executives from non-SCLTM fields who have been laid off, or who are at risk of being laid off.
“The worry is that supply chain and logistics managers are retiring without senior-level managers to take their place,” says Amoako-Gyampah. “Developing a professional program to train managers in the field of SCLTM will help fill a need in the Piedmont Triad Region as it transitions into the new economy.”
While the program at the Bryan School will be open to students with no background in SCLTM, current SCLTM employees who want to upgrade their knowledge and skills will also be welcome, says Amoako-Gyampah. The first students are expected to enroll for the 2009 fall semester.
Students in the program will complete the equivalent of a nine credit-hour program online after which they will be complete a six credit-hour mentorship/internship program. Executives from Triad companies such as Epes Transport, Liberty Hardware, Syngenta, Tyco Electronics and Volvo Parts North America, will serve as program mentors.
The Bryan School is the largest of UNCG’s six professional schools with 450 graduate students and 2,200 undergraduates. It is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and is among the top 10 percent of business schools nationwide that have earned accreditation at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both business and accounting.
For more information, contact the Bryan School of Business and Economics at (336) 334-5338 or visit bryanschool.uncg.edu. ###