March 14, 2011, Washington, DC...Global Academy Online, (the Academy), announced today the release of new
curriculum for its non profit foundation, the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise leading to certification in Applied Ethics The Academy is also simultaneously offering a new 10 month, 30 credit hour private label Applied
Ethics Masters exclusively to its domestic and international partner colleges and universities.
The Academy's
non profit foundation, CEFE, the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise, is a 15 year veteran of online cyber-based training
in entrepreneurship and ethics while managing three online specialty schools plus an Academy created tuition free university. The Academy's ongoing outreach through CEFE to the public through webinars, forums and development of reforms for higher education has provided the organization a unique platform for assisting the
public and institutions on five continents.
The growing global economic quagmire in the past two years and the
national and local media claims of moral bankruptcy has placed CEFE among the leading advocates for the application of ethics
and ethical entrepreneurship. Its programs and training are offered inside schools and among the public and private sector
institutional leaders.
"The Applied Ethics certification is a tough, rigorous, and demanding course that
stretches trainees to come away with a year's worth of work in a ten week total immersion training program", states
LaFonda Oliver-Bowen, a CEFE Fellow and Sr. Vice President with the Academy. She goes onto say, "It is taught by practitioner
experts and when a trainee successfully navigates this program, they will know that they are credible and certified applied
ethicists." This program, she offers, will prepare trainees to be appointed CEFE Fellows and capable of training others
in CEFE's proprietary Four-Point Community Character & Ethics Program, a program for educators and community leaders.
"There is no question among leaders in business, the non-profits,
and the public sector that a growing need for ethics professionals exists", states Oliver-Bowen. She points out that
graduates of the masters program will be capable of delivering training in their own workplace or in their community and design
applied ethics curriculum models and training protocols for their organizations, communities and local schools.
The genesis for the programs notes Oliver-Bowen comes from the research and study undertaken by Dr. Fred DiUlus, the CEO and Founder of both Global Academy Online and the non profit Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise. In the late 80's
and throughout the 90's Dr. DiUlus, taught Eastern European industrialists applied ethics and American ethical business
practices. As a result of this and other teaching experiences and research in Africa, South America and Asia, DiUlus developed
an international curriculum applicable on every continent.
More concerned with applying ethical practices across
multiple disciplinary lines from Business to Education and fields beyond, DiUlus directed the growth and development of the
applications through Global Academy Online and CEFE. In the late 90's, he created the fundamentals and system for delivering
the first universal applied ethics online curriculum for both training certification and collegiate degree programs. "The result", states Ms. Oliver-Bowen "was
the birth of the first online certification program in Applied Ethics and the first international and universal Applied Ethics
university curriculum."
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