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Looking for a powerful event planning partner?

We can help you plan, develop, coordinate and manage a full range of educational programmatic activities. OPD program planning consultants work regularly with professional associations, and leaders from business, industry, and government to examine educational and training needs and develop powerful solutions. As a member of the NC State University Extension family, we are uniquely positioned to draw on vast intellectual and technical resources of this university, as well as those of other educational institutions, professional groups, and consulting firms.

We help our clients provide quality lifelong learning opportunities tailored to meet the educational needs of the individuals, businesses, industries, government agencies and professional groups we serve. Our extensive array of events management experience includes short courses, seminars, workshops, conferences and in-house training programs on a wide variety of topics.

Benefits include...

Comprehensive Program Administration

• Banquet and meeting facility space contracting, technology support, event logistics, and catering liaison services allow you to concentrate on program outcomes
• Sophisticated registration management and payment processing options*
• Credentialing administration options including continuing education credits (CEU’s) Professional Development Hours (PDH’S), AIA Learning Units (LU’s), and other credits
• Custom program evaluation services that provide our clients with invaluable statistical and qualitative results

Integrated Marketing Services

• Environmental scanning, needs assessment and market analysis services to research and validate new program ideas
• Marketing and services that maximize the impact of every promotional dollar, including direct mail, targeted e-mail, and broadcast fax
• Boost your course enrollments by leveraging the power of over 75,000 targetable contacts in our database

Complete Program Staffing

• Cost effective instructor or talent selection and contracting from the NC State University community and beyond

*As a matter of convenience to you, OPD has the ability to pay invoices for a program in advance and return any residual funds directly to our partners.

Why partner with us?

If you contract with OPD, you can focus on program content while letting us take care of the details and setup. OPD’s services are “a la carte;” you can pick and choose among our services. The fees we charge are based on services provided.

Become part of NC State University’s “Continuing Education hub” by listing your courses on OPD’s web site and benefit from thousands of site visitors per day.

OPD currently helps clients manage programs in the following topic areas:

• Accounting
• Agriculture
• Communications
• Construction
• Education
• Engineering
• Environmental
• Management
• Parks and Recreation
• Spanish / ESL
• Substance Abuse Professional Training
• Taxation
• Test Preparation
• Textiles
• General Interest

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