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About CNS-ASU
Carl Van Horn
Research Team Leader, RTTA 1, Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Professor of Public Policy
Carl Van Horn is a widely recognized expert on workforce, human
resources, and employment policy issues with extensive experience in
public and private sector policymaking. Van Horn is the founding director
of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development—one of the nation’s
leading academic centers on workforce policy and practice. Van Horn is a
Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning
and Public Policy. He is the elected chairperson of the Bloustein School Faculty
Council. On the Rutgers faculty since 1978, he is a member of the university’s
graduate faculties of planning and public policy, management and labor
relations, education, and political science. He has written more than 75
articles and 12 books and is frequently sought by national media for his
views on labor, workforce, and economic issues. His most recent book is
entitled A Nation At Work, published by Rutgers University Press in
2003.
Van Horn has also held several senior level policymaking positions in
the government and at universities. He has been the Director of Policy for the State
of New Jersey, senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the
U.S. Congress, and chairperson of the Public Policy Department at Rutgers.
He is also the
founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Business-Higher Education Forum
of New Jersey and his past Board memberships include the New Jersey Commission on
Science and Technology, New Jersey Transit, the Amtrak Reform Commission
of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Special Arbitration
Committee on Labor Protection for Amtrak Employees. He was appointed by
President Clinton to a Presidential Emergency Board to mediate a new
contract between labor and management in the railroad industry. He has
served as Neutral Trustee for the United Mine Workers combined health
funds since 1998. In 2002, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey appointed
him to the Review, Implementation and Steering Committee on higher
education restructuring and as co-chair of its Executive Advisory Committee.
Van Horn has been a member of the New Brunswick Cultural Center Board of
Directors since 2002. He has advised and consulted with numerous public
and private organizations on human resource, training, education, and
management issues.
Email:
vanhorn@rci.rutgers.edu
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