WE received this e mail about a staffer at Kingsville. I am posing it not to promote this particular certification but to make the point that certifications are all the rage. Which is what I have been saying in class and on this blog…The trend is to set up certifications like this in niche professions, like purchasing manager. Usually one has to be employed in that profession to even be able to sit for the exam. And so the so called certification becomes a way to exclude outsiders from the profession. For example, it is impossible to be a public school superintendent in Texas without, you guessed it, a superintendent certificate. This assures that the same group that has produced lackluster grads for the last twenty years putting Texas behind various Eastern European countries in math will stay in charge.
Please join me in congratulating XXXX on passing the Certified Texas Purchaser (CTP) test. She has successfully completed the training and testing requirements and will be fully certified once she completes the application. This is quite an accomplishment as XXXX is developing professional skills as a career purchasing agent. She has already set her next goal, Certified Texas Procurement Manager.
Professor Elam 
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