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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff ." National Research Council. 1983. Education for Tomorrow's Jobs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/86.
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APPENDIX B 113 Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff COLIN C. BLAYDON became dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in fall 1980. From 1975 until 1983 he was vice provost for academic policy and planning and professor of policy sciences and business administration at Duke University. From 1973 to 1975 he was deputy associate director, Office of Management and Budget. He has conducted wide-ranging research in finance, budgeting, and regulatory economics. He holds A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University and a B.A. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. WILLIAM A. MORRILL has been president of Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton, New Jersey, since 1977. Before that he held posts in the Energy Policy and Planning Office of the White House; the Office of Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Office of Management and Budget; and several defense-related government offices. He has a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University. CHARLES S. BENSON is professor of the economics of education at the University of California at Berkeley, a position he has held since 1964. His research has focused on resource allocations in education, public-sector cost and revenue projections, and productivity analysis in the public sector, and he has considerable consulting experience in the education programs of

APPENDIX B 114 foreign countries. He has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University and a B.A. degree from Princeton University, all in economics. CHARLES E. BRADFORD is director of the organizing department of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, where he also served as director of the apprenticeship, employment and training programs. From 1968 to 1979 he worked with the AFL-CIO's Human Resources Development Institute, becoming executive director in 1975. He has worked extensively to use the resources of organized labor to initiate and operate employment and training programs for veterans, minorities, women, native Americans, and people with handicapping conditions. PAT CHOATE is senior policy analyst for economics at TRW, Inc., Washington, D.C. He has worked in a variety of management and policy positions in federal and state governments. His research involves management, development, economic policy, and public administration. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Oklahoma. PEDRO GARZA is president of SER-Jobs for Progress, Dallas, Texas. He was previously planning division administrator, deputy director for planning and development, and regional director. Before joining SER in 1972, he was a senior planner for the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation in San Antonio, Texas. He holds an M.A. degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a B.A. degree in government from Texas A&M University. JAMES M. HOWELL is vice president and chief economist of the First National Bank of Boston, which he joined in 1970. From 1962 to 1970 he held positions in the federal government in the Department of Commerce, in the Federal Reserve System, and as economic adviser to the government of Chile. He has served as trustee or adviser to a number of organizations, including colleges, community groups, employment and training concerns, and economic development activities. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Tulane University and a B.A. degree from Texas A&M University. JANICE MADDEN is associate professor of regional science at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has worked since 1972. Her research has focused on human resources, regional economic development, and the

APPENDIX B 115 employment of women. She has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Duke University and a B.A. from the University of Denver. PAUL E. PETERSON has just become program director for governmental studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. From 1967 to 1983 he was professor of political science and education and also chairman of the Committee on Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. His research involves urban politics and policies, especially as they relate to race and education. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. GEORGE R. QUARLES is chief administrator of the Office of Occupational and Career Education in the New York City Board of Education. Previously he served as director of the regional opportunity center program at the City University of New York, director of a manpower training skills center, and teacher of vocational education. He has also taught at Rutgers University, the University of the State of New York, and the New School for Social Research. He has an M.A. degree in vocational education from New York University and a B.S. degree in industrial education from the Hampton Institute. WILSON C. RILES is now an education consultant in Sacramento, California. From 1971 to 1983 he was superintendent of public instruction, California State Department of Education, where he worked since 1958. He was a teacher and administrator in the Arizona public schools from 1940 to 1954. He holds an M.A. degree in school administration and a B.A. degree in elementary education from Northern Arizona State College. ISABEL V. SAWHILL is a senior fellow and economist at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously she was director of the National Commission for Employment Policy. She has also held positions at the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and has taught at Goucher College. Her research has focused on employment and training issues and human resources. She holds Ph.D. and B.A. degree in economics from New York University. RICHARD F. SCHUBERT became president of the American Red Cross at the beginning of 1983. From 1961 to 1982—except for a five-year leave of

APPENDIX B 116 absence—he worked for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in a variety of positions, including president and vice-chairman of the board. From 1970 to 1975 he held various posts in the U.S. Department of Labor, including those of solicitor and under secretary. His career has included work with various universities and community and business organizations. He received an LL.B. degree from the Yale University School of Law and a B.A. degree from Eastern Nazarene College. FRANCIS T. TUTTLE has been state director of the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational and Technical Education since 1967. Before taking that position, he held various teaching and administrative posts in vocational education in Oklahoma. He has been a consultant for and evaluated vocational education programs in a number of foreign countries. He received an Ed.D. degree in school administration and an M.Ed. from Oklahoma University and a B.S. degree from Oklahoma A&M College. DAVID A. WISE is Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he has taught and conducted research since 1973. His research focuses primarily on youth unemployment—its patterns, explanations, and possible cures. He has a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. degree from the University of Washington. SUSAN W. SHERMAN served as study director of the Committee on Vocational Education and Economic Development in Depressed Areas. Previously she served as study director of the Panel on Testing of Handicapped People and worked with several other committees of the National Research Council. Her principal professional interests include educational and psychological measurement and policy issues in education and the social sciences. She received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an A.B. degree in psychology from Queens College, Charlotte.

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The ways in which vocational education can be strengthened to contribute most effectively to national education and economic goals are the subject of this book. It discusses changes in the economy and in the nature of jobs that affect the skills needed in the workplace; unemployment conditions, particularly among the young; and the educational implications of these changes and conditions. The book takes a critical look at vocational education, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the system, and makes specific recommendations for its improvement.

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