IAMPS 4TH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

IAMPS-Nigeria and CIAP-USA Inducts New Members, as US Partner Varsity Awards Honorary Doctorate Degree on Deserving Nigerians During the 4th Leadership Summit/Induction and Award Presentation Ceremony At Coal City University, Enugu State: By: Ubong John – Uyo The Institute of Arts Management and Professional Studies (IAMPS), Nigeria; a Professional Management Training Institute whose cardinal objective is to promote professional education and effective management system globally in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Arts Management and Professionals, USA; on Saturday, 7 November, 2020 at the Coal City University, Enugu State. Professor Prince Eze C. Nwauba, GFCA, FCEM, FIAP, FAPM, FCIAP the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Institute who also serves as the Registrar-IAMPS and African Representative of Prowess University, USA charges the newly inductees; Associate Membership, Full Membership, and Fellow Membership of CIAP on professionalism and stressed that IAMPS Nigeria has already began the journey of securing approval at the National Assembly as a chartered institution in Nigeria. He further explained that the Institute of Arts Management and Professional Studies (IAMPS) is an established vehicle that will take the dreams and vision of its founders, members and stakeholders to the charter status destination for subsequent transformation, upon final endorsement by the National Assembly, into the Chartered Institute of Arts Management, Nigeria. The Charter will set the professional standard frameworks for regulation and control of every aspect of the arts in Nigeria. Its trainings, both theoretical and practical shall provide administrators, students, researchers, governments, policy decision makers and other stakeholders the springboard for leadership and entrepreneurship in the arts. It will also connect for constructive and beneficial engagements, arts management in global outlook in similar firstly, and superior fashion secondly, as

the sciences. In this regard, IAMPS will innovatively collaborate with tertiary institutions and other professional bodies, for professional training programmes, accreditation purposes, for standardization and uniformity of the Arts Management curricula, he added. He however detailed that the Institute of Arts Management Professionals seeks to advance the course, roles, objectives and quality management of all aspects of the Arts. IAMPS to the shock of Nigerians have already gotten accreditations and certified by some international Arts Management organizations like; European American Joint Accreditation Services (EAJAS), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), World Safety Organization (WSO), Recognition, Accreditation & Charter Council (RACC), Universal Registrars (UR) etc, of which can be confirm in our corporate website at www.iamps.edu.ng. Prof. Nwauba reiterated that upon the national accreditation awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), Corporate Affairs Commission, National Association of Public Health Practitioners Council of Nigeria (NAPHPCON) etc that facilitated her international recognition and accreditations. Professor Amuda-Kannike Abiodun, SAN, FCIAP, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Kwara State University, who is also the IAMPS President in his welcome address, restated that the Institute of Arts Management Professional Studies (IAMPS), Nigeria was established to create focus and competent professional graduates with relevant skills to engage effectively in their respective professional practices. He emphasized that IAMPS’ curriculum is grounded in belief that management functions must support the organization’s mission and the needs of its artists and other stakeholders. Professor Abiodun further stressed that the essential difference between professional and academic credentials is that professional credentials are ‘warrants of competent’ or ‘warrants of expertise’ whereas, academic credentials are ‘certificates of

knowledge’. With professional designations, the certifying body is warranting that the certified worker (trade person or professional), has the essential knowledge and skills of a specified domain necessary for safe and appropriate practice of the trade or profession. With academic credentials, there is no such ‘warrant of competence’, an academic credential means that someone has successfully completed a particular course of study but not the certification of competent to practice a trade or profession. Professional designations are ‘warrants of competence’, it becomes important for certifying bodies to define specifically what certificates must be completed. Professional designations are always built upon practice analysis, which defines what certified individuals need to know or be able to do. Academic credentials are rarely based upon formal and systematic practice analyses. IAMPS is unique in its membership services as being an officially incorporated professional organization to provide assessment of competency to grant membership grades, it has also developed its curricula at different level that meet with the required demand of standards of the profession of Arts Management and Professional Studies. The IAMPS programmed comprehensive curriculum provides the skills students need not only in their first job but also in a job twenty years from now. In addition to shaping leadership abilities, IAMPS curriculum teaches students how to analyze problems and think strategically. The arts industry is constantly evolving, and at IAMPS, we don’t wait for the change to happen first in order to respond to it, we are proactive in becoming a part of change and inspiring innovation in our arts management field. Our current and relevant curriculum is updated on an ongoing basis to reflect essential industry shifts, and is vetted through national stakeholders as well as national arts leaders who provide valuable feedback on the needs of the arts field.

Our students, after the duration of their programme are awarded proficiency certificates as follows: Professional Membership Certificate, Professional Diploma Certificate, Professional Advance Diploma Certificate and Professional Post Graduate Diploma certificate respectively. Also, our students have an opportunity of being chartered in their chosen fields of studies before conversion examination into any of our partner universities. This is made possible through our partnership with several chartered professional bodies here in Nigeria and oversees whom we have merged their professional curricula with that of our partner universities, thereby given the students an opportunity of becoming professionals in their chosen career. This singular development which indeed makes it a dual bet that our graduates will have dual job opportunities; is already an avenue of poverty crushed out in their lives. “I therefore welcome you to the membership of IAMPS, where both academic certification and professional training are available to suitably qualify and experienced candidates in the field of Arts Management and Professional Studies” he concluded. Dr. Ayodele Festus, the Guest Lecturer delivered a paper on the expository message on the Ripples of Covid 19 Global Pandemic and the Need for the Proactiveness in every Sector of the Nigerian Economy, thrilled the audience with commendable key factors toward marching the economy recovery. In the collaboration of the foregoing, Prowess University (PU), Delaware, USA through its country representatives, Professor Apostle Chidi Justice, who is also a Board of Trustee Member of IAMPS alongside other University Dons in Nigeria for on behalf of the Prowess University, Delaware, USA decorated the founder of Liberal Bilingual University, Togo, Dr. Amani Danjuma Peniel; a Professor of Educational Management.

In the list of the Honorary Doctorate Degree Awardees in Public Administration of Prowess University, USA is the Enugu State 2019 Gubernatorial Candidate of the Fresh Party, Barr. Mrs. Nnenna Mary Anozie and over twelve others who were selected and nominated from different fields of endeavour were accordingly awarded respectively such as: Henry Onyeka Onwurah, Olachi Azuoma Chuks-Ronnie, Kanayo Ughamadu, Kogwu Jolly Kingsley, Oyemike Paul Ndi, Uwaga Hope Chukwudi, Okon George Etim, Kunle Awotiku amongst others. . The fourth IAMPS leadership summit also captures the investiture of a great university don; Dr. Rowland Iheanacho the Director of Institute for Continuing Education Programme (ICEP) Imo State University as the Vice President Academics of IAMPS. Also decorated Fellow members are: Dr. Ola Olusegun Oyedele, Rt. Rev Emmanuel Nwachukwu Aniagor, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Comr. Chidi Henry Ilogebe, Hon. John Daniel etc. Professor Amani Danjuma Peniel in his positive reception for and on behalf of other awardees and inductees appreciated the Prowess University Management for finding them fit for such elevated height, while he lauded IAMPS Nigeria for it professionalism conduct and prayed God for sustenance grace to pilot the essence to which led its establishment.