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AMi begins Continuing Education Requirement

North Richland Hills, Texas, February 26, 2018 ­- The Automotive Management Institute (AMi), the industry's leading management professional designation provider announced new continuing education requirements to maintain its professional designations. AMi will provide designation graduates holding one of its many professional designations until Dec. 31, 2018 to complete six credit hours of AMi-approved training to maintain a "current designation status." After 2018, anyone holding an AMi professional designation must complete a minimum of six credit hours of approved training within the 12-month calendar year.

Graduates not meeting the continuing education requirement will lose permission to claim designation status."Ongoing advancements in customer service, marketing, leadership, and management compels AMi to require continuing education requirements to maintain the relevance of its professional credentials," said AMi Chairman, Sheri Hamilton. Individuals not meeting the annual C.E. requirements will no longer be listed on the orgainzation's verification of credential holders website and will be required to stop using AMi designations as a current credential. "The AMi core belief refers to learning as the only source of a sustainable competitive advantage. To be true to this belief and to promote the need to learn continually, it only made sense to develop this requirement," said Jeff Peevy, AMi president.

AMi graduates may fullfil the annual six credit hours contining education requirement by taking AMi-approved live instructor-led classes, AMi hosted online courses and through its new "Alternate Methods of Learning Program" that provides credit through approved articles, videos, and podcast. For more information on the "Alternate Methods of Learning" is available at: https://www.amionline.org/press-news/ami-begins-approving-articles-2c-videos-and-podcasts-for-credit

A full description of the new AMi C.E. requirement is available at: https://www.amionline.org/Files/Documents/AMI%20Continuing%20Education%20Requirement%20Guidelines.pdf

About the Automotive Management Institute

AMi was established in 1989 to answer the demand for continuing education and industry-accepted recognition programs tailored specifically for the business needs of the automotive service and repair industry. To date, AMi programs have attracted more than 250,000 enrollments throughout North America. AMi is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational foundation, to which tax-deductible contributions may be made. For more information about the Institute, its curriculum or methods of donations, please contact AMi at (817) 514-2929, email at [email protected], or visit the AMI website at http://www.AMionline.org.