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green careers
journal |Fall 2011
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Developingthrough
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 The National Associationo EnvironmentalProessionals (NAEP)announced its neweducational partnership with American PublicUniversity (APU) at theNAEP 36th AnnualConerence in April 2011. Their shared goal is toprepare and inspireenvironmentalproessionals toadvance theenvironmental feld through relevant,online education.
By Tti Sehig d P ley 
 
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green careers
journal|Fall 2011
education
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ccording to the Environmental BusinessInternational’s Report, the U.S. environmentalindustry has grown rom less than $20 billion in
1970,to$299.5billionin2008.Today,theindustry
employs more than 1.6 million proessionals in green careers. Asindustry proessionals, we all ace similar challenges. Our conversa-tions oten center on limited unding, ineciencies o environmentalregulations, and a host o complex political issues. Nevertheless,we all can agree that the world is changing drastically beore oureyes, and as environmental proessionals, it’s our responsibility toimprove the environment and the lives o its inhabitants. More thanever beore, our proession needs emerging leaders and a bold visionto drive change. As part o that vision, NAEP and APU created aneducational partnership to develop proessionals who will ultimatelyshape the uture o the industry.
As the proessional associationdedicated to the promotion o ethicalpractices, technical competency,proessional standards, and the advance-ment o the environmental proession,NAEP chose APU as its rst highereducation partner. Both organizationsare committed to promoting and deliveringquality and relevant education to NAEPmembers.This relationship is designed to builda strong educational oundation byoering academic degree and certi-cate programs that enhance proessionaldevelopment through online, asynchronouslearning.
Evolution of aBold Partnership
Fm naEP PesidetP ley 
Over the last severalmonths, I havebeen privilegedto lead an eortto partner with
APU and helpdevelop neweducation possibili-ties or members o the Association. Our eortstems rom a strategic planning initiative thatstarted in 2008. At that meeting, we realizedthat while we espoused ourselves as an edu-cational association, we were not providinga means or our members to easily seek andobtain relevant educational opportunities.Our strategic initiative team researched solu-tions or how to remedy this insufciency.
Flash orward to late 2010. I was ap-proached by an APU student asking that shebe given all o the inormation available toorm a student chapter at her university. Iwanted to know where the university waslocated and then things got interesting.APU is a completely online university. Thisstudent was in Ohio, but her ellow studentswere located throughout the nation. Thispresented a dilemma, our normal denitiono a student chapter would need to change.The denition o a student would need toconsider distant learning students presentedby APU. Could we orm an eective stu-dent chapter or this unique situation? (Hint,we eventually did so this month). It sparkedcuriosity in me to learn more about APU.Enter, Dr. Carol Pollio and Tatiana Sehringo APU. They saw the genius o an educa-tional alliance and proposed it to NAEP.The idea o online education was oreignto me. My initial oray into the digital agestarted with computer punch cards (not un,believe me). Ater in-depth research, I discov-ered that APU is a well-respected universityand that the ormat or course oerings isan ideal t or what NAEP hopes to provideour members. As we discussed the potentialpartnership, several positive aspects becamemore apparent to me. First, the online col-laborative method o teaching is similar to theway many environmental proessionals nowmanage their projects. Today, many envi-
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