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- Battle Cries of the Inane - The Virginian-Pilot May 20, 2012
- Saturday's high school roundup: HRA takes state boys lacrosse crown - Daily Press May 20, 2012
- Road project funding close to running dry in Virginia - The Virginian-Pilot May 20, 2012
- Economically, tall ships are a tall order - The Virginian-Pilot May 20, 2012
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Apr 18
Virginia Business Incubation Association Invitation
The Virginia Business Incubation A
ssociation invites you to the 2012 roundtable discussions. These meetings, held across the Commonwealth, will look at the knowledge gained at the VBIA conference on “Economic Gardening: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Economic Development.” Participants will engage in a discussion about the tools and techniques used in Economic Gardening to grow second stage companies. In addition, VBIA will ask everyone to discuss the tools and techniques they believe are readily available to them to identify and assist second stage growth companies. Attendees will be provided take away materials they can use to assist their locality and region. Sign Up Today
Apr 11
Online Education
Post submitted by Jennifer Jenkins, Online University Project
The Online University Project primarily seeks to empower through knowledge. This is accomplished through providing high quality, insightful articles which foster one’s intellectual curiosity.
Over time, the institution of education has continually evolved. What was once a closed and selective system that barred certain individuals from access to education has evolved into something pervasive and accessible to all. With the rise of technology and the internet, we aim to seize this as an opportunity to provide resources for all. Here at Online University, we are embracing this monumental wave of educational freedom.
We strongly believe in providing access to premium educational materials across a wide range of academic disciplines. The internet has become the new classroom. Online University presents highly valuable, informative articles that allow readers to further their understanding and explore a myriad of concepts. An educated world is a better world, we want to diligently see to it that education is paramount.
Be part of the education revolution: http://www.onlineuniversity.net/
Apr 09
Dana Dickens, President & CEO of HRP on Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud
Dana Dickens, President & CEO of the Hampton Roads Partnership was interviewed on Chesapeake’s tv program Thinking Out Loud. Dana spoke towards the region’s impressive performance in comparison to the rest of the country, our reliance on military spending, and the booming entrepreneur community growing in Hampton Roads.
See Dana’s interview here:
Apr 06
Commonwealth’s Jobless Rate Down
The rate of unemployment has dropped from 6.3% at this time last year to 5.7% this past month, meaning Virginia had one of the eight lowest rates in the entire United States. An article in the Richmond-Times Dispatch says that the unemployment rate has not been this low in the Commonwealth since December of 2008.
The Richmond-Times Dispatch artic
le quoted Christine Chmura, President and Chief Economist, Chmura Economics and Analytics, who said that, “the good news is we are seeing enough jobs being created in Virginia to compensate for the number of the people who are coming back into the labor force.”
Please follow this link to read the complete Richmond Times-Dispatch article.
Apr 04
Layoffs in Hampton Roads
Over 300 jobs will be lost in Hampton Roads thanks to recently declared layoffs by major defense contractors, according to an article in HRMilitary. Lockheed Martin has notified the Commonwealth that they will be letting go of 150 employees, 92 in Norfolk and Suffolk, in addition to 65 in Hampton, while Luke and Associates will most likely layoff 182 at Langley Air Force Base.
Craig Quigley, Executive Director of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance, insists that these job losses are not an ominous precursor to others yet to come, but rather the expected result of the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) closure. “These actions represent arriving at something of an equilibrium from the disestablishment of Joint Forces Command. When that organization ended in August 2011, no existing contracts were cancelled. Rather, they were allowed to run their course and some of them are now ending. One of four things will happen as contracts expire: the work will be re-competed, the work will be done in-house, the work will be transferred elsewhere,
or the work will no longer be done.”
An article on the job losses in The Virginian-Pilot said that 1,200 military personnel and civilians, and about 700 private contractors work in Joint Staff Hampton Roads. For those seeking new work during these job losses, a transition center, funded by a DoD grant, was set up in Suffolk a year ago.
Read the complete HRMilitary article here.
Read the complete Virginian-Pilot article here.
Click here to visit the JFCOM Transition Center website.
Jan 25
ODU gets down to business
Inventors and entrepreneurs struggle to launch their ideas.
By Philip Newswanger for Inside Business, originally posted on January 13, 2012
They are flummoxed by a morass of red tape and nervous investors, who, in this weary economic climate, want an immediate return.
Old Dominion University may have an answer, or at least is offering solutions to the problem of transforming ideas into profits.
The idea, according to two ODU officials, is to marry the pursuit of knowledge, a mission of universities, with the management of knowledge, a private sector endeavor.
Tom Osha, president and CEO of Innovation Research Park at ODU, and Jerry Robertson, executive director of the university’s Gateway initiative, recently highlighted this connection between a university and inventors and entrepreneurs in Hampton.
The Jan. 5 event, called “Working with ODU in the Aerospace Center,” was sponsored by Innovate!Hampton Roads, an initiative launched by the Hampton Roads Partnership to drive jobs and the regional economy.
Osha said technology is getting more, not less, expensive, so companies must change how they do business.
ODU has an economic development role, Osha said, but it must become
Jan 14
Educator Urges Hard Work, Creativity
Story by Rachel Judy for Regent University, posted January 12, 2012; photo by Alex Perry
As the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)—one of the nation’s top-ranked schools for undergraduate education—Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III understands the importance of innovation and education. Drawing upon his own experiences as a scholar and educator, Hrabowski spoke to a crowd of approximately 400 about this topic at Regent University’s Thursday, Jan. 12, Executive Leadership Series (ELS) luncheon.
Held each month, ELS brings together businessmen and women in Hampton Roads to hear from business and leadership experts such as Hrabowski.
Hrabowski’s remarks centered on the need for American society to encourage education coupled with hard work—the result being innovation and progress. He began with a story about his own mother’s introduction to literature as a teenager and spoke of how it changed her life. “The more she read, the better a reader she became, and the better reader she became, the more she enjoyed it,” he said.
Academically, the United States is up against nations such as China and India—known for producing a significant number of scholars in science and technology, he explained, and it is up to the United States to encourage its students to take their knowledge and education to the next level.
Jan 11
Government Contracting Spring 2012
When: February 7 to April 10, 2012, 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Where: Tidewater Community College, Regional Workforce Development Center, 7000 College Drive, Suffolk, VA
About the Seminar: Contracting with the federal government, especially in the emerging Homeland Security and Defense industries, has many business opportunities… if you know the tricks of the trade. Only at the Government Contracting Business Management 2012 can you learn from top executives about what it takes to succeed in this growing field.
This is the fastest, smartest way to get the edge you need – perfect for transitioning military service members and civil servants, budding entrepreneurs, defense contractors or anyone planning to build a new career in government contracting.
What You Will Learn:
- Strategic Planning
- Marketing
- Proposal Development Process
- Contract Performance
- Contract Administration and Contract Accounting
- Government Customer Expectations
- How to Subcontract with Prime Contractors
- Profitability and Administration
- Employee Relations
- Small Business Resources