HU APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA BEACH

Hampton, VA - President William R. Harvey announced James L. Antonick as the director of the College of Virginia Beach, the Virginia Beach campus located at the Town Center, which is scheduled to open September 2003.

The state-of-the-art College of Virginia Beach, located in the city's newly constructed Town Center, will offer undergraduate degrees in nursing and hotel/resort management and graduate degrees in education as well as education certification programs, addressing the employment needs of the community.

"We will be ideally situated to positively impact the educational and economic development needs of Virginia Beach and the entire Hampton Roads region," said Antonick.

Antonick comes to Hampton University with over 25 years of higher education experience, most recently as the director of the James L. Antonick Old Dominion University Virginia Beach Higher Education Center and as an instructor of International Trade in the College of Business and Public Administration at ODU.

Antonick has also served as trade representative during the Baliles and Wilder administrations for the Virginia Department of World Trade and the Virginia Department of Economic Development.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for Virginia Beach Visions. Being active in the community, Antonick has been a member of the Economic Affairs Council for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce; chairman, Southeast Regional Cooperative Education Conference and is a founding member of the Tidewater Information Systems Educators.

Antonick received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master of Science in counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has twice received the Governor's Award for Excellence in International Market Planning from the Commonwealth of Virginia.

For more information about the College of Virginia Beach and its programs or for registration information contact James Antonick at 757-727-5097, james.antonick@hamptonu.edu or visit www.hamptonu.edu/covb.