Members of the Montana Next Generation Workforce System Team with Martin Simon, NGA July 2005, Red Lodge, MT Planning Retreat

 Chris, Martin and Members of the Montana Next Generation Workforce System Team July 2005, Red Lodge, MT Planning Retreat

 SFP ’07 Panel

2006 Sept CTWII Seminar At WorkSource, Mejia Dietche

SFP 07 Panel

4/13/2007 — Chris King of the Ray Marshall Center discussed workforce intermediary financing strategies as a panelist on “Developing Alternative Resources to Pay for Educational Advancement” during the Investing in Workforce Intermediaries Peer Learning Meeting convened by Jobs for the Future in Washington D.C. The meeting focused on community colleges as workforce intermediaries, and explored the work of community colleges in building resources and services for employers and in developing skills for employees to advance their career opportunities. Dr. King’s presentation was based on a forthcoming book chapter (with Tara Smith) on the use of Unemployment Insurance-based training funds.

4/17/2007 — Chris King of the Ray Marshall Center led a discussion of the education, workforce and early education and care policy and program implications of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Report, Tough Choices or Tough Times, for the Heart of Texas Workforce Board at their retreat at the WB Ranch in Whitney, Texas.

Ying Tang worked for the Center as a Social Science Research Associate from 2000 to 2010. Ms. Tang worked on the devolution of child care subsidy policy and management in the post-PRWORA years and worked with national research institutions to create a policy map that shows the gaps between income and budget needs for basic security among low-income families. Ms. Tang also conducted an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of child-support collection strategies. She was active with the United Way Capital Area in designing a community agenda for Success By 6, an early care and education initiative.

Before joining the Center, Ms. Tang worked as a policy analyst for the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission responsible for the statutory review of state agencies, and worked on a research project that created a community profile for the City of San Antonio on health, employment, education, housing, and legal services under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. She had also designed and executed training programs for foreign government officials in the U.S. in the areas of human resources development, public financial management, and public sector reforms.

Ms. Tang was an assistant professor of English at Fuzhou University in China for five years before coming to the U.S. She holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

About the Ray Marshall Center (2006 PowerPoint Presentation)

The Ray Marshall    Center for the Study of Human Resources has been at the forefront of public policy research and development since it was founded at The University of Texas at Austin in 1970. The Center became a research component of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in the fall of 1987.    

Ray Marshall led the center to prominence by focusing its research on the problems of minorities, women, youth, welfare recipients, the unemployed and others having difficulties finding jobs, earning a living wage, and sharing in America’s prosperity.

Today, the Ray Marshall Center continues to expand its national and international    presence in human resource development issues by conducting objective research and by designing innovative and effective service strategies.

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