Beginners Guide To HACCP

July 15, 2026
Food Safety Fundamentals By Greg Aronoff | Oregon State University Professional and Continuing Education If you work in food and beverage, or are thinking about a career in it, you will hear the acronym HACCP within your first week. You might hear it pronounced "hassup" by people who know what they are doing, or "H-A-C-C-P" by people who just learned what it stands for.

What Does A Food Safety Manager Do?

July 15, 2026
Food Safety Careers By Greg Aronoff | Oregon State University Professional and Continuing Education Ask ten people what a food safety manager does and you will get ten vague answers involving clipboards and inspections. The job title sounds straightforward enough, but the reality is considerably more interesting, and more varied, than most people expect.

How To Prepare For A Food Safety Audit

July 15, 2026
Food Safety Careers By Greg Aronoff | Oregon State University Professional and Continuing Education The word "audit" makes a lot of food safety professionals nervous. Even experienced ones. There is something about the combination of clipboards, checklists, and someone walking your facility looking for problems that tends to raise the blood pressure. If you have never been through a food safety.

Food Safety Certification vs Training

July 15, 2026
Food Safety Careers By Greg Aronoff | Oregon State University Professional and Continuing Education If you have started looking into food safety education, you have probably run into both terms: certification and training. They often get used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing, and understanding the difference can save you a significant amount of time, money, and frustration.

Can You Break Into Food Safety Without a Food Science Degree? (Here Is What Actually Matters)

July 15, 2026
Food Safety Careers By Greg Aronoff | Oregon State University Professional and Continuing Education If you have spent any time searching for food safety or quality assurance jobs, you have probably noticed something a little contradictory: the job postings say "degree preferred," but the people already doing those jobs often got there a different way.

How the Turfgrass Program Expanded Its Reach Through PACE

March 16, 2026
From Ten Students to 150 Professionals If you looked only at undergraduate enrollment numbers, you might underestimate the reach of Oregon State University’s turfgrass program. In a typical year, the number of undergraduate students focusing specifically on turf management hovers around ten. Ten students.

How OSU’s Community Health Worker Training Program Scaled Impact Through Partnership With PACE

March 16, 2026
From Access Barrier to Workforce Engine When the CHW program at Oregon State University was first conceived, it was not built to generate revenue, expand course portfolios, or experiment with delivery formats. It was built to solve a workforce problem.

How the College of Education Utilized PACE Partnership to Launch a New Literacy Credential

March 16, 2026
From Pilot Course to Statewide Endorsement What does it take to turn a promising faculty idea into a statewide teaching credential? At Oregon State University’s College of Education, the answer began with a single course. What followed was a multi-year effort involving curriculum design, state policy alignment, faculty leadership, and a strategic partnership with Oregon State Professional and.

From Good to Great: The Art of Effortless Professional Writing

March 6, 2026
What separates writing that merely works from writing that truly excels? The answer isn't about vocabulary or perfect grammar, it's about something more subtle and far more powerful.ƒ We've all been there, reading an instruction manual that makes us want to throw the wrench across the room, or slogging through an email thread that could have been resolved three replies ago. Both situations have.

The Power of Precision: Technical Writing is Essential for Grants, Contracts, and SOPs

October 28, 2025
When many professionals hear the term “technical writing,” they default to picturing complex manuals full of dense jargon and complicated diagrams. However, the true essence of technical writing is not about complexity—it’s about radical clarity. It’s the disciplined art of filtering out noise so that readers can instantly grasp the essential message. This skill set is invaluable in high-stakes.

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