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Media Advisory: Embry-Riddle Hosts 2009 Annual Leadership Institute

Public Event Features Keynote Speaker Brian France, NASCAR Chairman and CEO

Daytona Beach, Fla., March 23, 2009 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will host the 2009 Annual Leadership Institute, an intensive day-long program of lectures and workshops to help participants build leadership, business, and personal skills. The program, organized by Leadership Enhancement Program scholars from Embry-Riddle, Bethune-Cookman University, and the University of Central Florida, will feature keynote speaker Brian France, NASCAR CEO and chairman. Free and open to business professionals, educators, and student leaders, the program will cover a wide variety of topics, including conflict resolution, team-building, diversity issues, politics in the workplace, grant-writing, and stress management.

WHO
"Leadership: Soaring to New Heights,” sponsored by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Bethune-Cookman University, and the University of Central Florida.

WHEN
Saturday, April 4, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is required. Register at http://www.erau.edu/leadership.

WHERE
Willie Miller Instructional Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach.

DETAILS
Attendees will have the opportunity to experience Embry-Riddle’s Wright Flyer Simulator, which simulates the Wright brothers’ historic flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., just over 100 years ago. A campus tour, raffles, and breakfast and lunch are also included.

For more information and general inquiries, please contact Embry-Riddle’s Office of Diversity Initiatives at (386) 226-7004 or e-mail oaklece3@erau.edu.

The Leadership Enhancement Program is a consortium program directed by the Offices of Diversity Initiatives at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of Central Florida, and the Human Resources Office of Bethune-Cookman University. The program was created to foster and develop leadership potential and skills in women and ethnic/racial minorities at all levels of these universities.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering, educating more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs. Doctoral programs in aviation and in engineering physics are pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the University to offer programs at the doctoral level. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.