Met through a variety of programs/planning groups including:

• State of Region reports
• Public Service Week
• American Education Week
• Community Music program (A&L), the Executive Development Center programs (CBPA), and Dental Hygiene opportunities (CoHS).
• Programs for educators, through the DCOE.
• Programs offered through the Office of Community Engagement.
• Other offerings available through colleges and units on campus.
• Partnership with Chrysler Museum for glass-blowing classes
• First partner (with Dominion Power) for Rooftop Solar Power Installation program
• Task Force to explore alignment of continuing education programming

• State of the Region reports by the CBPA and Public Service Week activities.
• American Education Week, hosted by DCOE.
• Community Music program
• Executive Development Center, dental hygiene programs.
• Programs for educators.
• Task Force assessing feasibility of new college to encompass continuing education.
• A variety of programs have expanded to the Richmond area, including Career Switchers (DCOE) and Substance Abuse Certification (CoHS).
• Community engagement. Other examples include: Senator Warner's Women's Conference, and the Climate Change/Sea Level Rise Initiative, the Community Blueprint Project, Education Summit, and others.
• Consultant from Boston University hired to work with colleges and departments on expansion opportunities in continuing education

Additional and refined articulation and program agreements, including:

• Distance Learning and NVCC's Extended Learning Institute partnerships and program offerings.
• Partners in Progress plan, established to identify best practices in articulation and program agreements.

• NVCC/ODU partnership

• Continued enhancement of the Faculty Activity System (FAS).
• Faculty training in each college.

Examples of faculty engaged in community efforts:

• Criminal justice faculty working with courts and police precincts.
• Foreign language faculty offering translation services to external entities.
• Faculty in finance partnering with an engineering group to create Emergent Risk Initiative (ERI).
• Climate Change/Sea Level Rise Initiative.
• Hampton Roads Residential Market Review launched by real estate faculty.
• DCOE faculty and student provided approximately 280,000 service hours to area schools, agencies and wellness facilities during the 2011-12 academic year.

Student involvement in:

• Public Service Week.
• Women's Studies Service Learning Initiative.
• Increase of 236% of internship experiences in nonprofits (from 2008-09 to 2011-12).
• 18% increase in community service (2008-09 to 2011-12).

• Virginia Housing Development Authority $2.5 million grant allocated to the ODU Community Development Corporation for the Community Homeownership Revitalization program.
• Growing popularity of football within the community; rise of football and other athletic programs to Conference USA
• President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll recognized Old Dominion University for second consecutive year. Key highlights of this achievement included 376,234 student service hours and 54,000 faculty/staff service hours over the past year.

• ODU plans to apply for Community Engagement classification in 2014.

• Workforce Housing program
• Conference USA

• CBPA growth of endowed professorships, corporate sponsorship, and college endowments since 2008-09.
• DCOE: Nearly 75% increase in gifts and pledges from 2011 to 2012.

Development:

• Total gifts, pledges, and expectations: increase of 148% from 2008-09 to 2011-12-at $30,500,034.
• Endowment size; growth of 23% from 2008-2009 to 2011-12-at $168.1 million.