Bellevue University Receives Award of Excellence for Learning Program with The Home Depot

October 1, 2009 – Bellevue University’s strategic agreement with The Home Depot received the gold award for “Excellence in Academic Partnerships” at this year’s Chief Learning Officer Symposium held in Colorado Springs.
This is the second year in a row that Bellevue University received the Excellence in Academic Partnerships gold award. In 2008, Bellevue University [...]

Human Capital Lab to measure effectiveness of learning programs for unemployed, underemployed

Moving unemployed and underemployed workers into true productivity can create genuine growth for Omaha’s economy and businesses. This is typically done with learning programs geared to workforce development. But most of these programs do not engage statistically-reliable or projectable research to measure their effectiveness.
When the Greater Omaha Chamber formed the Omaha Workforce Funding Collaborative with [...]

Human Capital Lab’s Murnane honored for research

Dr. Jennifer A. Murnane, Senior Research Associate with Bellevue University’s Human Capital Lab and Associate Vice President of the University’s Strategic Initiatives division, will be honored with the Outstanding Student Award this summer during the 100th Annual American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Conference and Expo in Knoxville, Tenn.
Dr. Murnane was selected as the [...]

University teams with Capital Analytics on human capital research

Bellevue University has announced a new strategic alliance with Capital Analytics, a leading research firm on human capital investment, management and ROI. The new strategic alliance supports Bellevue University’s growing body of knowledge in the field of human capital management and measurement.
In late 2007, Bellevue University founded the Human Capital Lab to study and share research about [...]

Mercer named among most influential African Americans

Profiles in Diversity Journal has named U.S. Air Force Retired Maj. Gen. Roosevelt “Ted” Mercer Jr., a member of Bellevue University’s Military Advisory Board, one of the 25 most influential African Americans in business.
Mercer is vice president and director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for ITT’s Space Systems Division in Rochester, N.Y. Prior to joining [...]

Corporate Writing Center partners with UNMC

The Bellevue University Corporate Writing Center has partnered with University of Nebraska Medical Center to offer a workshop aimed at improving researchers’ manuscript and grant-writing skills.
The workshop, “Writing to Persuade,” meets at UNMC every Thursday for six weeks, beginning Jan. 8. Bellevue University Assistant Professor Gloria Lessmann will lead the workshop. Lessmann leads Bellevue University’s Corporate Writing Center initiative, which partners with [...]

Corporate partner Boys Town wins national award

Bellevue University corporate partner Boys Town was awarded the gold CUBIC (Corporate University Best in Class) for “Most Promising Corporate University” at Corporate University Week 2008, held last week in Orlando.
Through this award-winning partnership, Bellevue University customized a Master of Science in Family and Youth Services degree, helping Boys Town employees gain the knowledge necessary [...]

University-sponsored research findings point to need for strategic corporate learning programs

Learning now finds itself at the center of talent management and at the heart of workforce development, retention and planning. These are among the the key findings of the latest research on learning and development from Aberdeen Group and Bellevue University.
In the new benchmark report, “Achieving Real Business Value with Learning and Development,” Aberdeen Group [...]

BU honored for ‘Excellence in Academic Partnerships”

Bellevue University has won the “Excellence in Academic Partnerships” award for its innovative alliance with CACI International. Through this partnership, the university customized a Master of Science degree in Organizational Management designed to prepare CACI employees for the changing roles and demands of management, as well as to become effective leaders.
The M.S. in Organizational Management offers a strong [...]

University shows the “write” stuff

A 2004 survey of 120 American corporations, commissioned by the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, found that one-third of employees in the nation’s “blue-chip” companies wrote poorly. Bellevue University has launched a corporate writing initiative to help companies address this ongoing problem.
Recognizing that writing inefficiencies directly impact a company’s bottom line, the university, through [...]