Upcoming Lectures
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Professional Lecture Series
The Professional Lecture Series Presentations have been merged with Audio Seminars during the months of November, March, and May. This special seminar format has been developed to provide for more CPE hours over the course of the year, without the need for an extensive two-day conference in the spring. We hope you enjoy this new format.
- September 21, 2010 - "Healthcare Finance - What's Happening" 21.8 KB PDF) This Lecture will be held in the Senate Room of the Jayhawk Tower in Downtown Topeka.
Mike Kongs is the Director of Financial Management for Stormont Vail Healthcare.
Professional Development Seminars
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These 4 to 8 hour CPE Seminars present real-world issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Each merges an audio seminar presentation with presentations by practioners in the field and/or professors in a university environment that study and teach on areas of the issue at focus. The seminar format has been developed to provide for more CPE hours over the course of the year, without the need for an extensive and expensive two-day conference in the spring. We hope you enjoy this new format.
- November 10, 2010 - "Managing With Limited Resources in a Team Environment." // This special 5-hour Seminar will be held in Topeka, Kansas. (21.8 KB PDF) Our featured speakers include Andy Tompkins, President of the Board of Regents. Andy will be speaking over the lunch hour, so those that are not attending the full Seminar are welcome to join us over lunch.
- May 19, 2010 - "Ethics in the Workplace." // This special 8-hour Seminar will be held in Topeka, Kansas. (21.8 KB PDF) Our featured speakers included Barbara Carswell, First Vice President and Regional Coordinator since 1997 for Capitol Federal; Andrew Allison, PH.D, Executive Director of the Kansas Health Policy Authority; and Ted Clark, Director of the Anti-Fraud Division of the Kansas Insurance Department. The Audio Seminar entitled, "Those Faint Signals: Learning to Catch Ethical Slippage Before It's Too Late" will begin at 1:00.
- March 3, 2010 - "Fraud - Identifying it, Understanding it, Eliminating it." // This special 8-hour Seminar will be held in Lawrence, Kansas. (21.8 KB PDF)
- October 7, 2009 - "Internal Controls" // This 5-hour Seminar will provide both theory and real-world examples of issues and problems that develop when Internal Controls are weak or not supported by Management.(21.8 KB PDF)
- September 2, 2009 - "The Effect of Current Government Policies on Personal Finance" 21.8 KB PDF)This 4 CPE Seminar merges a special two-hour Lecture with the September Audio Seminar on grants management.
Andy Tompkins became president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents on June 1, 2010. Prior to coming to the Board of Regents, Dr. Tompkins served in a variety of roles in education in Kansas. At the university level, he has been a college dean, a department chair, and an associate professor of educational leadership. His state service includes nine years as Commissioner of Education for the state of Kansas. He has also served as a high school English teacher, high school principal, and district superintendent. He has been recognized for his accomplishments which include selection as the Kansas Superintendent of the Year in 1992, induction into the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in 2001, recipient of the Governor’s Award presented by the Kansas State High School Activities Association in 2002, and recipient of the Leadership Kansas Alumnus of the Year Award in 2002. He also received the University of Kansas College of Education Distinguished Service Award in 2004 and the Emporia State University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005.
Topeka's Annual Professional Development Conference
This conference will not be held this program year. Instead, the Chapter is organizing several half or full-day Seminars to provide more hours of CPE, but at a lower cost. Please see our section under Professional Development Seminars for additional information.
