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Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 225-234
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. His areas of expertise include labor economics, community colleges, econometrics, education policy, developmental education, assessment, educational equity, higher education and workforce preparation, school-to-work transition, and online learning.
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Along with Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins, he wrote Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Other books include Defending the Community College Equity Agenda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
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Rita Colwell is distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and chairman and chief science officer, CosmosID, Inc. Her interests are focused on genomics, biodiversity, and molecular microbial systematics and ecology.
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He is currently an institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research, a senior affiliate at the Urban Institute, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has also been a faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy.
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Employment and Training Administration. Her strong private-sector experience includes serving as senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships, LLC, an international consulting firm specializing in helping Fortune 500 corporations build strategic partnerships with government agencies in support of workforce development.
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From July 2003 to June 2007, he also served as deputy dean at the Sloan School. His research concerns changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs.
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Parker served as department chair of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies at Lansing Community College in Michigan, where skilled workers were in extremely high demand. GM had committed to building two new assembly plants in the area and needed workers in robotics and automation.
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, where in addition to his roles in building bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Germany, he has led GACC Midwest's Skills Initiative to expand the German dualeducation model of workforce development in the Midwest and throughout the United States. This has included supporting the creation and ongoing implementation of the Michigan Advanced Technician Training (MAT2)
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Prior to joining GACC Midwest in 2006, he spent more than a decade in various roles of international trade and economic development.
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