The Summer 2010 edition of West Virginia University’s Alumni Magazine featured a piece about WVU’s influential network of alumni in Washington, DC, including Widmeyer Communications’ Chairman and CEO, Scott Widmeyer. Widmeyer stressed the importance of networking in one of the country’s most competitive job markets [...]
Scott Widmeyer, chairman and CEO of Widmeyer Communications, was recently interviewed about growth areas for the firm. Widmeyer noted that the firm watches trends in government spending and has positioned the Public Affairs group to continue to move forward agendas on key issues areas such as energy, environment and the economy.
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Jason Smith, Widmeyer’s principal who oversees the PreK-12 education portfolio, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Stop Bullying Now! campaign, was recently quoted in an AOL Politics Daily story on the first-of-its-kind anti-bullying summit. The summit brought together government and non-government stakeholders in the education field to discuss how to address [...]
Nancy Farmer, president and CEO of the Tuition Plan Consortium (TPC), explained the guaranteed financial benefits of the prepaid tuition 529 option on KRLD News Radio, a CBS Affiliate in Dallas, Texas on August 16th. Farmer shared that the Consortium was formed because “it’s really important to private colleges and universities that they are accessible [...]
Sterling K. Speirn, president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a Widmeyer client, penned an op-ed that was published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on Saturday, August 7. In the op-ed, Speirn focuses on the need for foundations, charities and others involved in philanthropy to promote racial equity in our communities and throughout the [...]
High school students were challenged to design an eco-friendly dashboard of the future for a contest called DASH+. This contest was part of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition and was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Connie Bezanson of the Department of Energy’s Vehicles Technology Program met with the winning team during [...]
New York Times’ columnist, Tom Friedman, quoted Marc Tucker, the National Center on Education and the Economy president, in his August 3rd column, “Broadway and the Mosque.” On creativity and thinking, Tucker once explained to Friedman, “…if you spend your whole life in one silo, you will never have either the knowledge or mental agility to do the synthesis, connect the dots, which is usually where the next great breakthrough is found.”
On Friday, July 30th, Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Computer Science Education Act, a key legislative initiative that is part of a continuing effort to address the growing crisis in K-12 computer science education. The legislation will bolster computer science education programs across the country, and help ensure that the education pipeline will produce [...]
Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a Widmeyer client, aggressively promotes innovative education reform agendas in Tennessee, one of two states selected as grant winner in the first phase of the Race to the Top competition. Widmeyer has been helping providing SCORE, founded by Senator Bill Frist, with communications and research counsel for the [...]
Inez M. Tenenbaum, Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, had a letter to the editor published in the New York Times on Saturday, July 24th, responding to a news article about temporary swimming pools coming to Manhattan. Tenenbaum offered a few Pool Safely safety steps, while reminding New York pool-goers and visitors to [...]
