For small business leaders, a confidential peer group can be a powerful tool for innovation, and for helping with opportunities and challenges. The Small Business Development Center's Executive Roundtables provide just such an environment for you, the business leader, to discuss issues relating to your business, lessen entrepreneurial isolation, and help you stay current on the changing business environment. This free Open House will answer yo...

Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness = Improving Student Learning October 28–30, 2011 Rio All-Suite Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev. Virtually every study that has examined the role of the classroom teacher in the process of educating students has come to the same conclusion: an effective teacher enhances student learning more than any other aspect of schooling that can be controlled by the school. But that doesn’t mean blaming teachers for low...

Minority Leadership Training (MLT) Regional Seminars are designed to foster, promote, and enhance ethnic minority involvement in local, state, regional, and national Association policymaking and leadership. Six seminars (one per region) are held each year. Each state president is encouraged to select a 6-member team of ethnic-minority members/leaders to attend. Funding for state team members is provided by the NEA Human and Civil Rights Depart...

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Registration 9:00-10:00 “Seven Myths about Academic Freedom and Tenure,” Greg Scholtz, Director of Programs in Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance 10:00-11:00 “Faculty Handbooks and Shared Governance,” Puri Martinez, Vice Chair of the Assembly of State Conferences 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:15 “Government Relations,” Brian Turner, Secretary 12:15-1:15 Lunch “A Faculty Agenda...

Government agencies are facing increasing demand for citizen services across multiple channels (including self-service) while budget pressures are limiting their resources. Adding to the challenge are citizen service mandates such as the recent executive order to streamline service delivery. Join Pegasystems and InformationWeek Government for this interactive webcast that explores emerging best practices for delivering timely, efficient and l...

Jump start your career. Energize your Future. Acquire skills needed in a changing world. The New York Times Knowledge Network and Fairleigh Dickinson University have come together to offer online certificates in several emerging careers: Business, Technology and Communications Global Leadership Cybercrime and Computer Forensics Global Security, Safety and Terrorism Studies United States Homeland Security Studies Global Healthcare and Human Ser...

Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy?What exactly is a Simplified Acquisition and why do they matter? How do you pursue these opportunities and are you familiar with how agencies advertise them? Were you aware procurements conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) actually favor small businesses?During FY2010, over twenty federal agencies issued more than 620,000 Simplified Acquisition contract actions tot...

A Meeting of the Best Cybersecurity Minds in Maryland. October 21-22, 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center Be a part of history in the making at the first-ever Maryland Cyber Challenge & Conference™ (MDC3), October 21-22, 2011, a one-of-a-kind non-profit event bringing together Maryland's best minds to advance the critical field of cybersecurity across the public, private and academic sectors. Founded by SAIC, the University of Ma...

For more info or to register, please contact Vaune Marino at 410-535-3861 govconectx@hughes.net www.govconectx.net NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. NRL has served the Navy and the nation for 80 years and continues to meet the complex technological challenges of today's world NRL conducts a broadly-based multidiscipli...