UMT Dean Elected to Project Management Institute Board

ARLINGTON, VA, January 15, 2000 - UMT Academic Dean J. Davidson Frame has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

As a director of the 13-member board, Dr. Frame will help lead the 51,000-member organization until 2003. PMI, based in Broomall, Pa., is the world's premier project management association.

"It's a great honor to be elected to the board," Dr. Frame said. "I look forward to working with other board members to bring project management into the new century."

He had been involved with PMI for many years., Dr. Frame served as PMI's Director of Certification from 1990-1996 and as the Director of Educational Services from 1996 to 1998. He won PMI's Distinguished Service Award (1994) and Person of the Year Award (1995). He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Dr. Frame has been a major player in project management education and training since the late 1970s. He has written six books and more than thirty scholarly articles. His Managing Projects in Organizations (1995) is a business book bestseller. His most recent book, Project Management Competence, was published in July 1999.

Prior to founding UMT, Frame served as a Professor of Management Science at George Washington University (1979-1998), where he was Chairman of the Management Science Department (1988-89), Director of the Program of Science, Technology and Innovation (1981-86), and Director of the International Center for Project Management Excellence (1995-98). He also established a Master of Science in Project Management degree program at GW.