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Sharpen Your Skills. Learn New Ones. NMC’s partnership with ed2go allows you to gain an edge in today’s job market. As a partner, NMC is now offering a full catalog of hundreds of Online Courses and Career Training Programs to our community.

ONLINE LEARNING — Get started TODAY!

• Instructor-Facilitated • 24-Hour Access• Online Discussion Areas • 6 Weeks of Instruction

Our instructor-facilitated online courses are informative, fun, convenient and highly interactive. Complete any course entirely from your home or of�ce. Anytime of the day or night.

Features:Courses run for 6 weeks (with a 10-day grace period at the end). Courses are project-oriented and include lessons, quizzes, hands-on assignments, discussion areas, supple-mentary links, and more.

POPULAR COURSES:

• Accounting Fundamentals

• Creating Web Pages

• Medical Terminology: A Word Association Approach

• Introduction to Microsoft Excel

• Project Management Fundamentals

• Grammar Refresher

Discover why millions of students are switching to online learning. With online courses, you can study at your conve-nience in your preferred learning environment. Our courses and programs are highly engaging and relevant and our instructiors are interactive and support you through the curriculum. Choose from our growing catalog of Instructor-Led Courses designed to teach you a new skill or refresh a current one or our Career Training Programs geared to place you into a new career in an in-demand �eld.

Online Courses

Northern Marianas College (www.nmcnet.edu)

For more information, visit the Community Development Institute (CDI) in Building P at the NMC As Terlaje Campus or contact CDI @ (670) 234-5498 ext. 1005/1010/1019/1030.

Online Career Training Progam

www.ed2go.com/nmccdi

• One-on-One Instructor Assistance • 24-Hour Access• All Materials and Books are included

Prepare for employment in some of today’s hottest careers with a comprehensive, affordable, and self-paced online Career Training Program. You can begin these Programs at any time and learn at your own pace.

Features:Receive a certificate upon successful completion.Courses start anytime—begin when you wish.A typical program takes 3-6 months to complete. Extensions are available upon request.

POPULAR PROGRAMS:

• Medical Billing and Coding

• Comp TIAA+ Certification Training

• Building Analyst Quick Start Program

• Medical Transcription

• Travel Agent Training

www.gatlineeducation.com/nmccdi

Northern Marianas College— Community Development Institute (CDI) offers a range of traditional academic and non-traditional certi�cated and short-term personal, career and professional related programs. • CDI is a unique department that offers the community accessible and affordable opportunities

to take classes at Northern Marianas College (NMC) without having to be formally admitted or to seek an academic degree.

• CDI is the venue for specialized academic courses, non-traditional courses, customized train-ing, outreach and extended program services, personal enrichment and community-based learning.

• Specialized trainings and courses can be customized and developed outside of the published schedules to meet the diverse needs of our clients.

• On-site instructions are provided in hotels, workplaces, community centers, and other educa-tionally conducive environments. Classes are arranged and offered on Saipan, Tinian and Rota.

NMC-UCEDD is under the Pacific Basin University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities through the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The NMC UCEDD Program was established in 1993 and continues to serve the population of the CNMI.

The purpose of UCEDD Program is to advise federal, states, and local policy makers on strategies to promote:• Self-determination• Independence• Productivity• Common integration of people with developmental disabilities

C D I PROGRAMS • University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities—UCEDD

• Workforce Development and Certificate Training (WDCT) Program

• Extended Degrees and University Partnerships (EDUP) Program

• Community Services and Personal Enrichment (CSPE) Program

• CNMI Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

• Framingham State University (FSU) Master's Program

• US Army Senior Reserve Officers Training Corps (SROTC)

Our program is one of 63 University Centers for Excel-lence Programs throughout the United States, including Ameri-can Samoa, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and the CNMI.