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Member Benefits: Education and Publications
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ICSC's School for Professional Development offers
weeklong certificate programs at both the intermediate and advanced levels, focusing on marketing,
management and leasing. The
University of Shopping
Centers provides three-hour elective courses to professionals in all shopping center disciplines.
Other educational programs include
eDistance
Learning and two-day international seminars.
Our publications department gives members the best thinking, the most innovative ideas, the soundest
data and the most effective training tools in the shopping center industry. A full line of more than
75 books, manuals, packets and audiocassettes is available at our
Bookstore.
ICSC's monthly Shopping Centers Today business magazine is a respected and dependable
publication that covers the entire scope of the industry, including development, retailing, marketing,
management, financing, leasing, architecture and government relations. Value Retail News
is an equally comprehensive monthly publication that covers the world of outlet shopping centers.
Both also provide the latest news trends, interviews and analysis. SCT Xtra, a weekly
newsletter, gives members the latest news, while ICSC also provides an online pipeline to
industry-related news through ICSC SmartBrief, EuroBrief, AsiaBrief and the SCT Newswire.
Our Washington, D.C. office fights for ICSC members' concerns on tax policy, the environment, private
property rights and other issues. This office oversees federal relations, state government affairs
and the influential
ICSC Political Action Committee.