Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers

Contributors

303 CONTRIBUTORS Anthony P. Carnevale currently serves as director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Between 1996 and 2006, Dr. Carnevale served as vice president for public leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). While at ETS, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education. Before joining ETS, Dr. Carnevale was director of human resource and employment studies at the Committee for Economic Development (CED), the nation’s oldest business-sponsored policy research organization. While at CED, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to chair the National Commission on Employment Policy. Dr. Carnevale founded and was president of the Institute for Workplace Learning (IWL) from 1983 to 1993. Prior to founding IWL, he served as director of political and government affairs for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest union in the AFL-CIO. Before joining AFSCME, he was a senior staff member in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Dr. Carnevale was appointed as the Majority Staff Director on the Public Financing Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations. Dr. Carnevale received his BA from Colby College and his PhD in public finance economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Maryann P. Feldman is the S. K. Heninger Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of innovation, the commercialization of academic research, and the factors that promote technological change and economic growth. A large part of 304 CoNtrIButors her work concerns the geography of innovation—investigating the reasons why innovation clusters spatially and the mechanisms that support and sustain industrial clusters. Allan Freyer is a public policy analyst at the N.C. Budget & Tax Center with a portfolio of policy research and advocacy work focusing on economic development, workforce development, and labor market issues. He has more than a decade of experience in federal, state, and local economic development policy, including service as a policy advisor to three members of the United States Congress and as an independent economic development consultant to nonprofits, universities, and state and local government agencies. Allan is also currently a third-year doctoral student in city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where his research agenda focuses on the role of innovative and traditional economic development practices in strengthening community bargaining position in the face of globally mobile capital. Allan has a Bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Duke University and a Masters in city and regional planning from UNC-Chapel Hill. Thomas Gais is director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York. Gais has conducted research and written on federalism, program implementation, social policy, higher education and economic development, faith-based service delivery, state and local fiscal issues, performance management, campaign finance reforms, and interest groups. Selected recent publications include “The Social Safety Net, Health Care, and the Great Recession,” in The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance (2012); “Stretched Net: The Retrenchment of State and Local Social Welfare Spending,” Publius (2009); and “Federalism and the Executive Branch,” in The Executive Branch (Oxford, 2005). Gais is currently writing a book on the U.S. safety net and the federal system. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. James Jacobs is the president of Macomb Community College. Prior to his appointment, he concurrently served as director for the Center for Workforce Development and Policy at the college, and as associate director, Community College Research Center (CCRC), Teachers Contributors 305 College, Columbia University. Jacobs earned his PhD from Princeton University and has more than forty years of experience at Macomb. He has taught social science, political science, and economics. He specializes in the areas of workforce skills and technology, economic development, worker retraining, and community college workforce development, and is widely published in these areas of expertise. In addition, Jacobs has conducted research, developed programs, and consulted on workforce development and community college issues at the national, state, and local levels. He is a past president of the National Council for Workforce Education, a national postsecondary organization of occupational education and workforce development specialists, and a member of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board of the...