HiringThing named Bronze Stevie® Honoree in the 2025 American Business Awards Program

BARTONSVILLE, Pa., May 1, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — HiringThing, the premier white label recruiting and onboarding platform, has been named a Bronze Stevie® Award Honoree in the 2025 American Business Awards® for its innovative employee onboarding solution.

HiringThing launched its onboarding software in 2023 to meet a pressing market need. Studies show that 93% of employers believe good onboarding is crucial to employee retention, yet only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization provides an effective onboarding experience. HiringThing’s seamless solution bridges this gap by offering fully customizable, integratable onboarding technology through its open API platform—empowering partners to provide value-added software to their suite or solution.

“Adding onboarding to our products was a natural next step in providing even more value to our partners and their clients,” said Colette Luke, HiringThing’s VP of Product.

The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A.—public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small—are eligible to submit nominations. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year, and winners were determined by more than 300 global professionals during the judging process.

“We’re proud to be recognized for our innovation by The Stevie Awards,” said HiringThing Founder and CEO Joshua Siler. “Our onboarding platform expands the power of our white label recruiting technology, helping organizations create better, longer-lasting hiring outcomes.”

About HiringThing

HiringThing is a modern recruiting and HR workflows platform that delivers seamless people operations. Our partnership model and open API enable technology and service providers to embed a talent platform into their solution. Approachable and adaptable, the platform empowers anyone, anywhere, to strengthen their workforce. For more information, visit hiringthing.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X, or YouTube.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries annually from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

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Recognition places NU among the top institutions in the country for advancing access, affordability, and career outcomes for non-traditional, working, and military-connected learners

SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — National University (NU)—a nonprofit, Veteran-founded institution serving over 50,000 nontraditional, working, and military students annually through its degree programs and 80,000 more through its workforce and professional programs—today announced that it has been recognized with the prestigious Opportunity Colleges and Universities – Higher Access, Higher Earnings classification as part of the newly updated 2025 Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education.

This new classification recognizes NU’s distinctive model—pairing access and affordability with workforce outcomes and growing research capabilities. It also places it among the top U.S. colleges and universities recognized for delivering both high access to underrepresented students and strong post-graduation earnings outcomes—affirming the university’s mission to deliver career-relevant educational opportunities, with a special focus on students who are working, nontraditional or military-affiliated students.

“From the beginning, National University has been an opportunity university—measuring success not by selectivity or exclusiveness, but by the success of our students and their ability to strive, achieve, and build better futures for themselves, their families, and their communities,” said Dr. Mark D. Milliron, president and CEO of National University. “We’re flipping the script on the traditional rankings game by proving that access, academic excellence, and strong career outcomes can—and must—coexist. This recognition is a validation of what we believe at our core: that education can be accessible, affordable, high-quality, and life-changing—all at once.”

National University’s student population reflects the shifting demographics of higher education today. Today, it is one of the largest private, nonprofit universities in the United States designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Approximately 70 percent of National University’s students take the majority of their classes online. Over 80% of undergraduates are transfer students. The vast majority are working. The average age of NU undergraduate students is 33. And 50% of undergraduate students are servicemembers or Veterans.

In addition to joining the top institutions based on Carnegie’s new Professions-focused category, NU stands out among a select group of 479 Opportunity Colleges and Universities nationwide—approximately 16% of all classified institutions—a subset of institutions that demonstrate deliver the highest earning premiums while also enrolling high numbers of students who are from low-income or underrepresented backgrounds.

National University earned a new Institutional Classification as a Professions-focused Undergraduate/Graduate-Doctorate Large institution—an acknowledgment of its growing enrollment, strong research operation, and professional degree offerings across disciplines such as education, health, cybersecurity, business, and human services.

The 2025 Carnegie Student Access and Earnings Classification is the first of its kind, aimed at recognizing institutions that deliver strong access to historically underrepresented populations while also achieving competitive earnings outcomes for graduates. Institutions were selected based on public data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Census Bureau, examining both access (Pell eligibility, racial/ethnic representation) and median post-graduation wages.

Well-known for its distinctive focus on serving working adults, educators and veterans, National University has steadily grown its research enterprise over the past decade with the addition of graduate, doctoral and research programs. Over the past several years, NU has expanded its academic and research enterprise, launching initiatives such as the Cause Research Institute (CRI) to democratize access to research and development opportunities for underrepresented students.

“National University has long focused on designing programs and support systems around the realities facing working adults, military-affiliated students, and others balancing education with career and family,” said Dr. Ruthann Heinrich, Chair, National University Board of Trustees. “This classification highlights the growing relevance of our unique model in a rapidly changing economic landscape.”

The university has also unveiled its Whole Human Education™ model, investing in wraparound student supports like the recently launched Nest co-learning centers, local childcare partnerships, and a revamped Veterans & Military Community Center, designed to remove barriers to college and workforce training.

About National University: About National University: National University, a Veteran-founded nonprofit, has been dedicated to meeting the needs of nontraditional, working, and military students by providing accessible, affordable higher education opportunities since 1971. As San Diego’s largest private nonprofit university, NU offers over 150 online and on campus degree programs, credentials, and certificates with flexible four-week and eight-week classes and one-to-one graduate education models designed to help students reach their goals while balancing busy lives. Since its founding, the NU community has grown to 130,000 learners served per year—50,000 degree-seeking students and 80,000 workforce and professional development students—and 245,000 alumni around the globe, many of whom serve in helping industries such as business, education, health care, cybersecurity, and law and criminal justice. To learn more about National University’s new possibilities in education including next-generation education, value-rich education, and whole human education, visit NU.edu.

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Ashleigh Webb, National University, 760-889-3494, awebb@nu.edu, https://www.nu.edu/

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DENVER, May 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Propulsion Division at Edwards AFB, Calif., has awarded Ursa Major a $28,565,857 firm-fixed price contract for responsive space, hypersonic, and on-orbit propulsion. This new contract will follow-on work completed to mature advanced liquid rocket engines and will culminate in a flight demonstration.

“Under this contract, Ursa Major serves as the lead integrator for a tactical flight demonstrator that will prove the ability to use a storable liquid rocket system for hypersonic applications,” said Dan Jablonsky, CEO of Ursa Major. “Because of their tactical configuration, storable liquid rocket engines, like Ursa Major’s Draper, are uniquely positioned to deliver to the warfighter a hypersonic capability that is manufacturable at scale and at a fraction of the cost of alternatives.”

Ursa Major’s Draper propulsion system combines the long-term storable attributes of solid rocket motors with the active throttle control and extended ranges of liquid systems, providing maneuverability, distance and flexibility needed for hypersonic applications for warfighters. Developed as a tactical, storable variant of the flight-proven and in-production Hadley system, Draper’s design furthers effective simulation of hypersonic threats and addresses critical gaps in America’s hypersonic capabilities. Draper is a 4,000-pound-thrust closed catalyst cycle system that uses non-cryogenic fuels that optimize long-term storability. Ursa Major announced  the successful hotfire of the Draper engine in May 2024 following the announcement  of the development of Draper. Draper has subsequently conducted over 200 hot-fires, and this will be its maiden flight. 

About Ursa Major 
Ursa Major is an aerospace and defense company, providing products and solutions for hypersonic, tactical missile, and space mobility systems. The company applies state-of-the-art digital and additive manufacturing techniques to rapidly produce the most advanced, cost-effective solutions. Ursa Major has category-leading hypersonic, on-orbit, and solid rocket motor propulsion capabilities. Ursa Major’s customers range from commercial space technology providers to enterprise-level aerospace and defense leaders as well as the U.S. government. The company employs the most sought-after engineers from top aerospace programs and universities, united in the core values of disruptive innovation, flying faster, and providing reliable and cost-effective systems. Headquartered in Berthoud, Colorado, with additive manufacturing facilities in Youngstown, Ohio, Ursa Major was named one of the best places to work by Built in Colorado three years in a row.

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