Nearly 100 people, including 80-plus students, as well as instructors, TRSA staff and guests recently gathered at a banquet hall near the University of Maryland campus to mark the 54th commencement program of the Ehrlich-Stempler Executive Management Institute (EMI). The Aug. 9 dinner event included a series of speakers and student-organized skits and jokes. The program emphasized the networking and educational opportunities that TRSA’s four-year institute creates for its graduates as well as faculty.

“It’s been an amazing four years,” said Kevin Bazin, a Year IV student from Canadian Linen in Victoria, British Columbia. He spoke on behalf of the ...