New certificate program gives employees tools to tell the Rutgers story better
Thomas Snyder, a business specialist in operations at the Camden Campus Center, signed up last spring for a few pilot workshops being developed for the university’s new communicator certificate program. He didn’t expect to get much out of them.
“I’m a business guy,” Snyder said. “They needed volunteers from Camden, and I was doing someone a favor.”
Snyder recently became the first Rutgers employee to complete the communicator certificate program. “I realize now that communication ties in with just about everything I do – advertising sporting events, emails to promote concerts, costing out events. Also, I talk with parents and students all the time, and even though I’ve been around this place for nearly 20 years – there are still many things about Rutgers I didn’t know.”
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