{"id":174370,"date":"2019-10-28T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgianewsdesk.com\/news\/story\/174370\/the-us-president-appoints-education-pioneer-george-mentz-jd-mba-to-white-house-commission-on-presidential-scholars.html"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:39:09","slug":"the-us-president-appoints-education-pioneer-george-mentz-jd-mba-to-white-house-commission-on-presidential-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/story\/174370\/the-us-president-appoints-education-pioneer-george-mentz-jd-mba-to-white-house-commission-on-presidential-scholars.html","title":{"rendered":"The US President Appoints Education Pioneer George Mentz JD MBA to White House Commission on Presidential Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"font\">The US President has appointed George Mentz, a Louisiana Lawyer, to the&nbsp;White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. Counselor Mentz has been one of the most prolific authors and professors in the last 20 years teaching and developing over<span class=\"font\">&nbsp;<\/span>300 courses for colleges, law schools and accredited educational bodies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">Mentz is one of the first people in the USA to ever earn a&nbsp;Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD), an MBA,&nbsp;and an international law graduate certificate with various licenses in law and finance from FINRA\/NASD.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">Mentz is the author of over 50 success related books and audio books and is the&nbsp;winner of an IBA Book Award for Self Help. Mentz is a&nbsp;historian&nbsp;of human performance and metaphysics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">George Mentz&nbsp;was a pioneer in credentialing standards as&nbsp;the first education lawyer to negotiate legal deals with accreditation agencies and integrate and accept&nbsp;accredited business school exams and courses&nbsp;as a path to board certification and professional designations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">George Mentz&nbsp;is an economics analyst at Newsmax and has been a brain trust member and dream team member of various media expert teams including with the famous National Underwriter group. Mentz is also an adjunct Faculty for graduate LLM wealth management courses at Texas A&amp;M Law School.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"font\">Mentz is the son of the late Judge Henry Mentz of the US Federal Courts in New Orleans and the late Ann Lamantia Mentz.<span class=\"font\">&nbsp;<\/span>Mentz has won several awards for teaching and charitable service, and is a proud Sicilian Hispanic with a&nbsp; European background and member of various ethnic &amp; cultural societies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">Mentz is originally from Louisiana and an LSU classmate of Steve Scalise. Mentz has been a Colorado resident for over a decade. Further, Mentz had met the current US president when he was in New Orleans in 1988 at the Bush Convention and had been a fan ever since.&nbsp; Counselor Mentz graduated from law school after attending Loyola Law School in New Orleans and William &amp; Mary Law School international law programs, and Mentz also holds an MBA from Loyola Business School along with a CILS Graduate <span class=\"colour\">Certificate in International Legal Studies<\/span>. Mentz was chairman of the Tax &amp; Estate Planning Law Review while in graduate school.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">After volunteering for various administrations without recognition, Mentz earned this present appointment from the US President. Mentz had offered free advisory services as a lawyer and economist writing for the Department of Labor during the Bush and Obama years helping the most vulnerable in the USA find quality job information. &#8220;My wife and children and I are extremely grateful for this honor and dignity, and we are thankful for this wonderful time of peace, jobs, and prosperity.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"font\">Mentz is the General Counsel of the Academy&rsquo;s Board of Standards. Mentz said, &ldquo;As an Education executive and e-learning pioneer, we have been integrating the highest certification standards from: business schools, online learning, and VIP Training programs for over 15 years.&rdquo; We now also accredit MOOCs as a certification path.<span class=\"font\">&nbsp;<\/span>&ldquo;We are active in over 40 countries working with great companies such as&nbsp;Informa&nbsp;Training and Events. Mentz&rsquo;s companies&nbsp;<span class=\"font\">&nbsp;<\/span>accredit educational programs, training, and online programs to offer professional certifications. We are the first in the world to accept education and exams from: the greatest accreditation agencies in the world including over one thousand&nbsp;ACBSP and AACSB business schools&nbsp;worldwide.&rdquo; These same principles can also be used for technical certification.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"font\">As Robert Frank wrote in the Wall Street Journal, the&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/financialcertified.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academy&rsquo;s Certifying Board of Standards<\/a> requires courses which all include assessment to earn a certification or designation and author Jason Zweig quoted George Mentz&rsquo;s double accreditation standards where courses are reuired in 2010 which were simultaneously noted in the Wall Street Journal designation guide and also in the&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/gafm.org\/FINRA.html\" target=\"_blank\">FINRA guides<\/a>. However, to be certified, if you already have a qualifying degree, you will not need to take further exams if you have already taken 20-30 exams in an accredited businessschool program. People who have earned a degree after completing various exams at an accredited university or business school may apply directly for&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/gafm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Certification<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">Mentz and his educational efforts have been seen in television, radio, press, podcasts and more in places like India, China, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, and more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"highlight\"><span class=\"colour\"><span class=\"font\"><span class=\"size\">New York Gazette&reg; &#8211; <em>Building the World&rsquo;s Thought Leaders&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"highlight\"><span class=\"colour\"><span class=\"font\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkgazette.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.NewYorkGazette.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"highlight\"><span class=\"colour\"><span class=\"font\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gmentz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.GMENTZ.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"caps\"><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> Release News<br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Andrew Braithwaite<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.universalpressrelease.com\/?pr=the-us-president-appoints-education-pioneer-george-mentz-jd-mba-to-white-house-commission-on-presidential-scholars'>Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +44 (0) 161 818 6487<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/release-news.com\/welcome\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/release-news.com\/welcome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getnews.info\/press_stat.php?pr=the-us-president-appoints-education-pioneer-george-mentz-jd-mba-to-white-house-commission-on-presidential-scholars\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US President has appointed George Mentz, a Louisiana Lawyer, to the&nbsp;White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. 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