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Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy (1994)

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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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APPENDIX
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff

RICHARD P. NATHAN is professor of political science and public policy and serves as director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and provost of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York in Albany. His previous positions include professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His government service includes associate director for the National Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), assistant director for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and Deputy Undersecretary for Welfare Reform of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. His publications include Turning Promises Into Performance (Columbia University Press, 1993); The Administrative Presidency (MacMillan, 1983); Reagan and the States (Princeton University Press, 1987); and Social Sciences in Government (Basic Books, 1988).

SUE E. BERRYMAN is an education specialist with The World Bank in Washington, D.C., where she provides technical expertise for the Bank's human capital work in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former countries of the Soviet Union. Her most recent publication, coauthored with Thomas R. Bailey, is The Double Helix of Education and the Economy. Previously she directed the Institute on Education and the Economy at Teachers College, Columbia University; was a behavioral scientist with The RAND Corporation; was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota; worked as a research associate in the director's division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and taught at the Harvard Business School. She

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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received a magna cum laude B.A. degree from Pomona College, undertook graduate training in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and received a Ph.D. degree from the Social Relations Department at Johns Hopkins University.

BERNARD L. CHARLES is a senior executive with The McKenzie Group. Formerly, he was senior vice president of Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network. Prior to that position, he served as senior program officer for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he directed a multimillion dollar national program to increase the representation of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, women, and persons with disabilities in science, mathematics, and engineering fields. He was formerly dean of Academic Affairs and professor and chair of the Department of Urban Teacher Education for Livingston College, Rutgers University, and was also coordinator of the master plan for City University of New York. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities, including the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He received a B.S. degree from Fisk University and an M.S. degree from Yeshiva University in New York City.

ROBERT C. FORNEY is a retired executive vice president, member of the board of directors, and member of the executive committee of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. During his almost 40-year career with du Pont, he held a wide variety of research, manufacturing, engineering, marketing, and general management positions. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the board of several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Dr. Forney received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering and an M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

RICHARD B. FREEMAN is program director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Program in Labor Studies, professor of economics at Harvard University, and executive program director of the Comparative Labor Market Institutions Program at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. He is currently a member of The Secretaries of Labor and Commerce Commission on The Future of Worker Management Relations. He is also serving as chair of the International Experts's Commission on the Social Costs of Transition in Eastern Europe, a program organized by the Institute for Human Sciences in Austria. Previously, he taught at the University of Chicago and Yale University. His research interests include youth labor market problems, higher education, trade unionism, high-skilled labor markets, economic discrimination, social mobility, income distribution, and equity in the marketplace. He received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University.

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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EVELYN GANZGLASS is policy studies director for employment and social services at the National Governor's Association. She has more than 25 years' experience in developing and implementing new ideas in the fields of work force development, youth, adult literacy, and welfare reform policy. The focus of much of this activity has been on strengthening connections among employment and training, education, economic development, and social service policies and programs. She formerly worked at the U.S. Department of Labor.

W. NORTON GRUBB is professor at the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the role of schooling in labor markets, the flows of students into and through postsecondary education, the interactions among education and training programs, community colleges, and social policy toward children and youth. He is also a site director for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, which has supported some of his research on education and job training programs. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University.

JUDITH M. GUERON is president of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC). Since the creation of MDRC, she has worked to provide policy makers and practioners with reliable evidence on the effectiveness of alternative public policies aimed at improving the well-being of disadvantaged adults and youths. To do this, she has pioneered the use of social experiments to field-test welfare reform and employment and training programs. She was awarded the 1988 Myrdal Prize for Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association. She received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University.

G. PHILLIPS HANNA retired in 1987 from the position of chief of the Labor Branch in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he directed the staff responsible for analyzing and presenting recommendations on the design, operation, management, budget, accomplishment, and effectiveness of government labor programs, including employment and training. While in that position, he received the Rogers W. Jones Award for executive leadership by the American University and the rank of distinguished executive in the Senior Executive Service by the President of the United States. He received an M.A. degree in political science from Princeton University.

JANET S. HANSEN became the study director for the Committee on Postsecondary Education and Training for the Workplace after serving for a year as a committee member. Previously, she was a policy analyst at the College Board, focusing on issues relating to higher education finance, federal and state student assistance programs, and how families pay for col

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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lege, and she served as the Board's director for policy analysis from 1984 to 1991. She also served as Director for Continuing Education and Associate Provost at the Claremont Colleges and as Assistant Dean of the College at Princeton University. She received a Ph.D. degree in public and international affairs from Princeton.

MARY ALLEN JOLLEY is director of the Office of Economic and Community Affairs and assistant to the president of the University of Alabama. She formerly worked as a staff member for the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, developing education policy. She also worked as public affairs director for two national associations and served as vice president for development of a community college in Charleston, South Carolina. In her current position she links the resources of the University of Alabama to economic growth and development guided by the university's strategic plan that has been developed cooperatively with the state and local communities. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Alabama.

ROBERT I. LERMAN is professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics at the American University. He has written widely on poverty and welfare programs, child support issues, youth employment programs and patterns, family formation patterns of young people, young unwed fathers, and on the case for youth apprenticeship programs. He has also worked directly on welfare and employment policy issues for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Lerman received an A.B. degree from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DAVID A. LONGANECKER, who resigned from the committee on May 10, 1993, when he became Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, was until then the executive director of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. In that capacity he also served as executive director of the Department of Higher Education and as an officer of the Governor's cabinet. Prior to his position in Colorado, he was at the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board, first as deputy executive director, then as executive director. His prior positions also include adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota College of Education and principal analyst for postsecondary education and chief of the education and employment unit within the Human Resources Policy Unit of the Congressional Budget Office. He received a Ph.D. degree in administration and policy analysis in higher education from Stanford University.

MICHAEL McPHERSON is professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics at Williams College. His research interests include

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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economics of higher education, policy formation and implementation, and economics and moral philosophy. He is coeditor of the book Economics and Philosophy. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Chicago.

LARRY L. ORR, a senior economist with Abt Associates, Inc., is the project director for the National JTPA Study and is on the editorial board for the report Evaluation and Program Planning. He was formerly director, Office of Income Security Policy Research, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and director, Office of Technical Analysis, U.S. Department of Labor. His research interests include analysis of public policy issues using experimental methods and effects of employment and training programs. He received a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

FRANKLIN D. RAINES is vice chairman of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). In that capacity he is in charge of Fannie Mae's legal, credit policy, finance, and corporate development functions. Prior to joining Fannie Mae he was a general partner in municipal finance at the investment banking firm of Lazard Freres. He received a B.A. degree in government from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

JOAN L. WILLS is director, Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C. She has served on several boards and commissions, including a presidential appointment to the Commission for Employment and Unemployment Statistics. She has been a member of the American Council on Education's Commission on Education Credit and Credentials, the Development Training Institute, the National Job Training Partnership, Youthwork, Inc. and National Child Labor Committee. She is a board member of the Corporation for Enterprise Development and several advisory panels, including the Council of Chief State School Officers, Aspen Institute, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She serves as a senior scholar for the National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce funded by the U.S. Department of Education, housed at the University of Pennsylvania. She received an M.S.W. degree from the Ohio State University.

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF." National Research Council. 1994. Preparing for the Workplace: Charting A Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2123.
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