The Mortgage Banker’s Association (MBA) announced earlier this week that Jonathan L. Kemper, current President and CEO, will be stepping down on December 31, 2008. According to the same MBA statement, during Kempner’s seven years with the MBA, the association doubled its revenues and operating reserve fund.

“This has been an extremely intellectually stimulating and rewarding period in my professional life,” said Kempner. “Navigating the highs and lows of the real estate cycles, with a first rate leadership and wonderful membership, afforded me a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the most important industries in our society. I am very proud for the extraordinary staff I have helped assemble at MBA, as my colleagues’ dedication, intelligence, and expertise make a true difference in the overall quality of life for many Americans. MBA’s mission, I am convinced, will be enhanced with new leadership, and on a personal level I very much look forward to a new position of leadership myself after nearly eight wonderful years at MBA.”

Kieran P. Quinn, MBA Chairman of the Board of Directors had this to say of Kempner, “Jonathan has been an exceptional leader for MBA. He has led a major transformation in our operations, and put in place a first rate staff that is widely acknowledged to be one of the most effective in the Washington association world. He has poured his heart and soul into MBA with the highest degree of professionalism, integrity, and devotion to our members, and always with a personal warmth and sense of humor. The entire MBA family will miss him.”

Quinn also announced that John A. Courson, former MBA Chairman, will become their COO effective August 1, and will assume the position of President of MBA, effective January 1, 2009.

Quinn said that, “John Courson brings tremendous industry knowledge, business savvy, and political skills to MBA. John has worked tirelessly on behalf of our industry for more than 40 years. He has been an advocate ensuring safe and affordable housing for all Americans and for simplifying the mortgage process. We are lucky to have John join MBA and steer our association to represent the real estate finance industry as we continue to build America’s communities.”

Courson, who currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Finance Agency, served as Chairman of MBA in 2003 and as a member of MBA’s Board of Directors, the Residential Board of Governors (RESBOG) and the Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG).]

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The development of India Mr. NK need to take up the challenge to ensure that growth is just a meeting of stakeholders on the growth of multi-national Indian said. Participation in the two-day national conference organized by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) Business School, leader noted that during the Indian MNC can not find growth in itself a problem, Charts real challenge was just to success.

Among the measures proposed by experts, the promotion of competitive international industry has been enhanced regime, measures to strengthen the currency of India and respect international recognized quality standards.

K. Pandia Rajan, director, Ma faith Management Consultants, opened the conference on “multi-national Indian - Blazing New Trails”. A.V. Sivarama Prasad, Vice President (HR), KCP Biotech, R. Ramasubramanian, President, Sundaram brake linings and K. Srinivasan, Director General, Carborundum Universal also spoke.

About 50 delegates visit the meetings organized under the growing phenomenon in India of multinationals and their impact on the management of culture and education.

The last day of the conference will discuss topics such as Business Process Re-engineering of globalization, cross-cultural and professional challenges and solutions, as B are schools to cope with future challenges.

St. John’s University conferred 2,146 undergraduate degrees at three graduation ceremonies held over the weekend.

The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of the university, gave the keynote address at all ceremonies for the 122d commencement exercises.

Addressing the students at the campus in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday, Father Harrington told the students that “the quality of life in society rests upon the quality of education in our grammar and high schools and in our colleges and universities.”

Referring to the rioting in Los Angeles, he said, “Regardless of how we interpret the events of the past month, regardless of where we seek to place the blame, I submit to you that an essential part of any solution must be the renewal of the educational system of our land.” Industry, Health, Banking

At the first ceremony, held in Alumni Hall in the morning, an honorary doctor of commercial science degree was awarded to Michael E. Maher, an alumnus of the university who is chairman of Maher Terminals Inc. in New Jersey, one of the largest independent container terminal operators.

Sister Irene Kraus, president of the Daughters of Charity National Health System in St. Louis, received an honorary doctor of letters degree.

In the ceremony held in the afternoon, also in Alumni Hall, an honorary doctor of commercial science degree was awarded to Richard T. Greene, president of Carver Federal Savings Bank, one of the largest black-owned financial institutions in the nation.

Edward Mercado, director of the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services, received an honorary doctor of laws degree.

On Saturday, a commencement ceremony was held on the Grymes Hill campus of the university in Staten Island. An honorary doctor of civil law degree was awarded to Josephine L. Gambino, president and senior member of the New York Civil Service Commission. Cornell University

Cornell University’s 124th commencement took place yesterday in a cold rain with temperatures in the 30’s, prompting the university’s president, Frank H. T. Rhodes, to cut short his prepared remarks to the 5,900 graduates. University officials said it was the first time in 17 years that it had rained on commencement.

Each of the graduates of Cornell’s 11 schools and colleges at the ceremony, which was still held outdoors on the campus in Ithaca, N.Y., was given a red rose. Mr. Rhodes used the occasion to remind them to “take time to smell the roses.”

Darice Paula Grippo, a vice president in the investment-research division of the Putnam Management Company in Boston, was married yesterday to Robert Leonard Wareham, a senior trust officer with the Old Colony Trust division of the First National Bank of Boston. The Rev. David Drew Rose, a United Church minister, performed the nondenominational ceremony at the Houghton Memorial Chapel at Wellesley College.

The bride, who will retain her name professionally, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Paul Grippo of Orange, Conn. She was graduated from Wellesley College, where she was a Wellesley College Scholar, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Her father, who formerly owned the New London (Conn.) Seaplane Service, is a consultant to the Avco Lycoming Corporation in Stratford, Conn., from which he retired as superintendnent of research and development quality assurance. Her mother was formerly a pilot with Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven, Pa.

Mr. Wareham is a son of Harry Percival Wareham of Chapoquoit Island, West Falmouth, Mass., and the late Mrs. Wareham. He was graduated from the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., Boston University and the National Graduate Trust School of Northwestern University. His previous marriage ended in divorce. His father is retired and was a manufacturer’s representative in F.N. Burt Company, a packaging concern in Rochester.

The Department of Management Studies, University of Madras, organised a workshop on “Quality management system for school education” on Tuesday at the university premises.

Principals and senior teachers from over 40 schools participated in the workshop. Prof. S. Modi, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University delivered the inaugural address.

Introspection needed

“School education forms the base of the education pyramid. We need personal introspection at every level to ensure quality in our education system,” said Mr. Modi.

Stressing the need to spread such projects in several other centres, he said, schools are ladders that connect students to higher portals of education.

Mr. Modi urged the teachers to address various issues such as syllabi and quality control systems within schools.

M.R.Sathyamurthy, Professor and Head of Department of Management Studies, University of Madras spoke on the need to provide students with good infrastructure.

The need to set up a national-level statutory body for censoring advertisements has been stressed by the speakers at a seminar on `Misleading advertisements’ here recently.

They said constitution of a national level body had become necessary in the absence of a legal body vested with exclusive powers to deal with unfair advertisements.

Pointing out that countries like Britain had floated an exclusive statutory body like the `Advertising Standards Authority’ for effective censorship of advertisements, they wanted a similar unit to be constituted in India.

S. Pushpavanam, secretary, Consumer Protection Council, Tamil Nadu, which sponsored the seminar, said advertisements should furnish basic information like quality of the product, its price and performance. He said the Centre should evolve a code for checking any attempt to exploit the consumers.

S. Sundar, Head, Department of Management Studies, Shrimati Indira Gandhi College for Women, said advertisements should contain all relevant information, particularly when a dealer or firm offers special concessions in the form of rebates. Vague terms like `till the stock lasts’ or `conditions apply’ should be avoided and instead the quantum of stock available and the details about terms and conditions should be specifically spelt out.

Ganga Vidhya, a representative from the Advertising Standards Council of India, Mumbai, said the council initiated action based on genuine complaints against unfair advertisements.

The Director, Mudra Communications, Millind Jhadav, spoke on various advertisement techniques followed by ad agencies.

A resolution was adopted urging the Central government to form a legal body to censor advertisements.

A new forum called `Ad-watch’ comprising all those present as members and three co-ordinators, including Ganga Vidhya, was floated on the occasion. The public could contact `Ad-watch’ in connection with any advertisement-related complaints and clarifications.

The forum would contact its members through E-mail and initiate action against unfair advertisements, according to Mr. Pushpavanam.

Januar 17 - Kolkata, Indian - International Accreditation zu sein scheint das Stichwort zwischen mehreren Top-B-indischen Schulen. IIM (Ahmedabad), XLRI, Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai sind und wie die Getriebe bis zum Benchmark sich gegen die Besten der Welt.

Schritt Dieser wird nicht nur weitere Institute der “globalen Ambitionen ausländische und Studenten, sondern wird auch dazu beitragen, binden besser sie mit ihren bekannten internationalen Partnern für das von Anbieten gemeinsamen Programmen von und die Durchführung Studentenaustausch.

In jüngster Zeit IIM-A Bekanntgabe ihrer Entscheidung beantragen die begehrten EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) Akkreditierung

GThe students prefer to study the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), a ranking of the list of Business Schools in India, outdoing IIM, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

This is because IIM-B-initiatives to improve the quality of education, according to a survey of the Economic Times

M2 PRESSWIRE-3. June 2003-TATA Interactive Systems: new customers, products, processes and people for Tata Interactive Systems (C) 1994-2003 M2 Communications Ltd

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), recently chosen by British Airways (BA) as one of only three preferred suppliers of integrated user of e-learning materials for its 50000 employees or less, recent examples of its user built e-learning courses see (on stand E20) on you-learning conference and exhibition in London, the Business Design Centre, Islington, 4 and 5 June.

TIS, which has one of the biggest the world `s for design teams and software development built E-Learning Solutions, has recently won contracts not only the BA, but also an organization with a public support in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

In e-learning exhibition in London, TIS are in a selection of his latest pioneering programs - as its “Simulation Based Learning Objects (SimBLs), produced in collaboration with the University of Phoenix, Arizona, Etats United, which until now for Themes such as nursing and justice and finance, operations, marketing, human resources and the economy.

TIS is also manifest its `a2` process that allows the “intelligent” of the transition - “Legacy” - educational E-Learning. “ A2 process can transform materials, which was developed on XML, in a variety of formats, including Quark, PDF, HTML, Word document, Page Maker and Power Point.

The company has recently expanded its capacity for development of e-learning materials in Britain as its headquarters in Mumbai, India, the appointment of Jackie Barnett that his teaching methods in the United Kingdom lead designer. Barnett joined TIS VEGA Group plc, where he was a consultant on the design, of course.

Sambit Mohapatra, Vice President of TIS in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, said: “More and more organizations are choosing TIS to design and develop e-learning materials for their employees. We develop these materials, so that `s more favourable for our customers - off-shore installations on the client’s site.

“For a buyer” point of view, it `s important to combine the best quality e-learning materials with the development of e-learning,” he added.

Elaine Wilson, BA `s E-Learning Manager, commented:” We are particularly impressed by TIS `commitment to quality - as their possession a number of quality labels internationally recognized and their commitment to” Six Sigma “l ‘ quality improvement techniques. For more important factors in the selection of BA TIS as one of its preferred suppliers TIS `s production capacity of high quality e-learning materials to require, on time and on budget squire, as well as its commitment to catering for the needs of their customers.

“The determinants was` TIS capacity to respond to the challenges of our customers and feedback, which gave us confidence in the ability of `TIS, inexpensive, high quality products.”

Notes to editors:

About Tata Interactive Systems (TIS)

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is one of the biggest `s for design teams and software development built E-Learning solutions. It is part of the Tata Group, India `s great Business House, employs over 330000 people and the balance of approximately two percent of India` s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

TIS `s services include: Building Corporate e-learning solutions learning portals; Course conversion of the product and the extension of the provision of training. It focuses on developing high-end products, with mature systems and processes.

TIS, whose headquarters is fully operational in 1990 and the United Kingdom since 1998, is a spin-Tata `s integration in the computer industry. TIS now employs about 350 people - most of them have their headquarters in India - work with many of the UK `s major companies, in collaboration with commercial publishers of e-learning materials.

TIS clients are blue chip companies including publishers and Abbey National, Barclays Bank, Transco (British Gas), CGNU, BP-Amoco, the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (ICPD), Quisic.com, SkillSoft Inc and Unilever.

TIS offers a personalized service to each of its customers. His long experience in producing high-quality programs, with the size of his company helps to reassure customers that everything and anything they want, e-learning materials effectively and efficiently.

In addition to the implementation of ISO 9001 certification, TIS is the first construction company personalized e-learning solutions to assess the level 5 on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) scale. The institution Software Engineering (SEI), a fund federal funding establishment, Carnegie Mellon University various issues facing the software industry, whose headquarters is this model of quality assurance, in the late 1980. Designed as a method for assessing the software subcontractors of Defence, the JMC has become a model can be used to assess the improvement of internal processes. For more information, s.http: / / www.sei.cmu.edu / sema / pub_ml.html

TIS `s products have won numerous awards, including gold-BIMA Awards by staff Today E-Learning Award in 2001 with a LIT Award in 2002.

About the Tata Group

The Tata group was almost 100 years of Jamshedji Tata help to India `industrial infrastructure. Based Tata Steel of India, chemical and automobile engineering industries. He founded Air India and played a crucial role in defining the information technology (IT) sector in India.

Wipro Technologies, the Global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), has become the first company outside the United States to be conferred the prestigious award for Software Process Achievement (SPA) by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The SPA award was presented to Wipro Technologies on May 7th in an International Conference on Software Engineering held at Portland, Oregon USA. The award is given for achieving a high software process capability and establishing a basis for moving to a very broad improvement program that concerns people and product, rather than just process and issues. Adding another feather to its cap, Wipro is the first Indian company ever to be nominated for this award.

The Computer Society’s Award for Software Process Achievement is given for improvement in an organization’s software process. “Process discipline is the most critical success element of offshore outsourcing,” said Dean Davison, Vice President of Meta Group. To be considered for this award, the improvement must be sustained, measured and significant. Wipro Technologies underwent a thorough evaluation process amongst nominations from different organizations across the globe. The evaluation process included initial short listing of nominees as finalists and then site visit by the evaluation committee.

The IEEE Evaluation committee consisted of Quality Guru’s like Watts Humphrey of Software Engineering Institute (SEI) USA; William Riddle, Solution Architect at TeraQuest Metrics Inc; Prof. Victor Basili, Founder & Member of International Software Engineering Research Network and Prof. Manny Lehman, of Imperial College, an authority on software engineering. The committee visited Wipro Technologies software development center at Bangalore and evaluated Wipro’s Processes and Practices following nomination of Wipro Technologies for the Award.

Complimenting Wipro on the award, the IEEE Evaluation committee said, “Wipro’s well-defined and implemented software process improvement program was appreciated and the breadth & depth of the organisation’s capability achievement and improvement program were lauded as the best that the committee had found since inception of the award nine years ago.”

“We are very excited and receiving this prestigious award is a great honour,” said Sambuddha Deb, Chief Quality Officer, Wipro Technologies. “This recognition from the IEEE Computer Society is yet another feather in Wipro’s cap and validates our vision of making quality a culture within and validates the significant strides we have taken in our quest for quality,” he added.

The committee also recognised that Wipro achieved Capability Maturity Model Level V (An international standard for quality) throughout its 10,000 plus person, international workforce unlike most other organizations reviewed who had achieved this level of capability within only part of their organization. In addition, Maturity Level V for both the P-CMM and CMMI capability maturity models were achieved very quickly, the breadth and speed of which were unprecedented.

With this award Wipro joins a select group of organizations like the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Directorate of Aircraft Management, Test Software and Industrial Automation Branches, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center.