Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Andrea Hetling, Ph.D.

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Andrea Hetling, Ph.D.

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Gender and Family Policy

housing

Qualitative Research

Statistical Research Methods

Social Policy

Inequality and Disparities

Professor & Associate Director

Hetling, Ph.D.

Andrea

Andrea Hetling is a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She is also the newly appointed Associate Director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Dr. Hetling’s research interests focus on how public programs and policies can support economic well-being and financial stability among vulnerable populations, including families living in poverty and survivors of intimate partner violence. In 2019, Andrea was selected as one of only five Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Network Scholars and awarded a five-year grant by the US Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Before getting her Ph.D., Andrea worked as a program administrator at a domestic violence agency, focusing on advocacy and development issues. As a strong believer in the public impact of applied policy research, Andrea regularly connects her research projects with her teaching and mentoring and to her service to the greater community.

Telephone

848.932.2963

ahetling@rutgers.edu

Twitter Handle

https://twitter.com/andreahetling?lang=en

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-hetling-a46397b9/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership

Michele Evermore

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Michele Evermore

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Unemployment Insurance Modernization

Visiting Non-resident Scholar

Evermore

Michele

Michele Evermore is a Visiting Non-resident Scholar at the Heldrich Center. She is also a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation, where she focuses on policy for improving the nation’ social insurance programs. One of the nation’s leading authorities on unemployment insurance (UI), Michele most recently served as deputy director for policy in the newly formed Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization in the U.S. Department of Labor. In that role, she spearheaded efforts to improve the delivery of UI benefits in a timely and accurate manner and ensure equitable access for underserved communities. She represented those efforts to Congress and the press through technical assistance, on-the-record interviews, and Congressional testimony.

Michele worked for the National Employment Law Project from 2018 to 2021, focused on building a more inclusive and sufficient unemployment insurance system. Her work led to the successful passage and implementation of historic protections for unemployed workers, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past, she has worked to promote worker rights as a legislative advocate for labor unions, including the Service Employees International Union District 1199 New England and National Nurses United. She also worked for the Obama administration’s Department of Labor as a senior legislative officer. Prior to that, she worked in Congress for a decade, primarily for then-Senator Tom Harkin, and also for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. In those roles, she worked to advance worker protections, labor organizing rights, and improving retirement security in a variety of private pension plan designs, as well as Social Security.

Michele has testified before Congress several times and is frequently quoted in major news outlets outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Good Morning America, NPR, Marketplace, Associated Press, Reuters, and USA Today, as well as many large regional newspapers, radio shows, and television news. She holds a M.S. in labor studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.A. in interpersonal rhetoric and communication from Iowa State University.

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Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Anton House, Ph.D.

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Anton House, Ph.D.

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Black Economy

Racial Uplift and New Negro Movements

Migration

Urbanization

Visiting Non-resident Scholar

House

Anton

Dr. Anton D. House obtained a Doctoral of Philosophy in United States History from Howard University in 2019. He also holds a Masters of the Arts degree in U.S. History from Howard and a Bachelor of the Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin- Parkside in History. Dr. House’s research centers on late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States History. Among his research areas of interest are the Black Economy, Racial Uplift and New Negro Movements, African American Benevolent, Fraternal, and Mutual Aid Societies, migration, and urbanization. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Heldrich Center.

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Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Ronald Quincy, Ph.D.

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Ronald Quincy, Ph.D.

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Nonprofit Sector Leadership and Governance

Fundraising

Institutional Branding and Grantsmanship

Organizational Strategy

Human Capital, Performance, and Executive Coaching

International Civil Society Organizations

International Affairs

Senior Fellow for Diversity Studies

Quincy

Ronald

Dr. Quincy earned his Ph.D. from the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University. He served as a member of the Governor of Michigan’s Cabinet, Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Director of the Michigan State Office of Human Resources Policy and Special Projects. His other previous positions include the following: Associate Vice President, Assistant to the President, of Harvard University; Chief Operating Officer of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; Executive Director/President of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.; President of the White House Fellows Association and Chairman, White House Fellows Foundation; Senior Management Consultant, Towers Perrin (the world’s 11th largest management consulting firm); and Foreign Policy Advisor, U.S. State Department, Africa Bureau.

Telephone

848.932.2801

ronald.quincy@rutgers.edu

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

William M. Rodgers III, Ph.D.

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William M. Rodgers III, Ph.D.

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Economics of Social Issues

Labor Economics

Professor & Chief Economist

Rodgers III, Ph.D. (currently on leave of absence through 2024)

William

William M. Rodgers III is currently on a leave of absence from his positions as Professor and Chief Economist at the Heldrich Center. During his leave, he is serving as Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Director of the bank's Institute for Economic Equity.

In spring 2006, he joined the graduate faculty at Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations. He is also a senior research affiliate of the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan. Prior coming to Rutgers, he served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000-2001, appointed to that position by Alexis Herman, U.S. Secretary of Labor. He was also the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. Most recently, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Since coming to Rutgers, Rodgers has served on Montgomery Township's planning board. At the state level, he served on Acting Governor Codey's pensions benefits review task force.

His research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. In recent years, he has focused his research on the impact of the 1990s economic expansion and now the current job loss recovery on the earnings and employment of Americans. Recently, he and co-author Richard Freeman (Harvard University) published a series of articles titled, "Jobless Recovery: Whatever Happened to the Great American Jobs Machine?" He has published articles in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, the Review of Black Political Economy, and Family Economics and Nutrition Review.

His most recent book, The Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, published by Edgar Elgar was selected by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association, as an "Oustanding Academic Book" for 2006.

His most recent research on the logisitics chain is funded by the National Science Foundation. He recently completed a study of the state of New Jersey's minorities for the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission and the Fund for New Jersey, and wrote a piece for the National Urban League's State of Black America on why African Americans need to show greater interests in macroeconomic policy.

Rodgers' expertise is frequently called upon by journalists for articles in The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, Business Week, and other publications. He has been a guest on CNBC and CNNfn and many radio talk shows. His policy work includes testifying before the New Jersey Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee, New Jersey State Labor Committee, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, the Joint Sub-Committee Studying the Status and Needs of African American Males in Virginia, and serving as a consultant for the state of Virginia, the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, and the AFL-CIO.

Rodgers serves on numerous boards. He is Immediate-Past President of the National Economic Association, and a former co-chair of the Programs and Planning Committee of the United Way of Greater Williamsburg. In October 2004, he joined the Board of the United Way of Somerset County, and in spring 2007, Rodgers became vice-chairman of the Board. He is currently a member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession, and runs the Association's mentoring program that seeks to increase the numbers of minorities that obtain economic doctorates. Rodgers is a member of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality Advisory Board. In spring 2007, President Marc Morial appointed Rodgers to the League's Council of Economic Advisors. He has served on the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Council of Academic Advisors, and the Economic Policy Institute's Research Advisory Board. He continues his service on the board of the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Center.

wrodgers@ejb.rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rodgers-31a0b7a/

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Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership

Hal Salzman, Ph.D

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Hal Salzman, Ph.D

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Globalization of Innovation

technology design

Labor Market

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Workplace Restructuring

Professor & Senior Faculty Fellow

Salzman, Ph.D

Hal

Hal Salzman is a Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research focuses on labor markets, workplace restructuring, skill requirements, and globalization of innovation, engineering and technology design. Recently he has been writing on the science and technology policy implications of his research. Dr. Salzman is currently examining the science and engineering education and labor supply in research supported by the Sloan Foundation.

An ongoing project is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study of employment and sustainability of rural communities exposed to dramatic economic, social, and climate changes. This study of industry, workers, and Native villages in the Arctic examines workforce development opportunities and more general economic viability of several communities in Alaska’s North Slope, Bristol Bay, and Bering Sea regions.

Dr. Salzman has conducted a number of studies of the IT industry, on both software design and work practices and on labor force issues in the IT industry. Past research also includes Principal Investigator of a NSF-funded project on globalization, innovation, and human capital, Salzman is continuing his research on “collaborative advantage” in globalization, engineering, and technology entrepreneurship (research funded by the National Science Foundation and Kauffman Foundation, with Leonard Lynn of Case Western Reserve University and conducted with colleagues in the U.S., Germany, Japan, China, India, and Latin America).

Dr. Salzman’s publications include Software By Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace (Oxford University Press) and articles on issues of technology, skills, and the workplace, including “Making the Grade” (in Nature), “Collaborative Advantage” (in Issues in Science and Technology), and forthcoming, Technology Entrepreneurs in the Emerging Economies: The New Shape of Global Innovation.

Click here for a list of Dr. Salzman's publications.

Recent Publications

Douglas, Daniel, & Salzman, Hal. (2019). “Math counts: Major and gender differences in college mathematics coursework.” Journal of Higher Education.

Freeman, Richard B., & Salzman, H. (2019). U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy. University of Chicago Press/National Bureau of Economic Research.

Salzman, Hal, & Benderly, Beryl Lieff. (2019). "STEM performance and supply: Assessing the evidence for education policy." Journal of Science Education and Technology, 28(1), 9-25.

Telephone

848.932.1037

HSalzman@rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hal-salzman-288a2643/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Carl E. Van Horn, Ph.D.

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Carl E. Van Horn, Ph.D.

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Dislocated Workers

long-term unemployment

Older Workers

Research Design

workforce policy

Director & Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

Van Horn, Ph.D.

Carl

Carl Van Horn is Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the founding Director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Since 2013, he has been a Visiting, Non-Resident, Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is also Senior Advisor for Strategy and Planning in the Office of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

Van Horn is the author or editor of 17 books and over 150 scholarly articles and reports on American public policy and the American labor market including Working Scared (Or not at All, (2014); Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century (2015); and Investing in America’s Workforce (2018).

Van Horn has held several senior positions in government at the state and federal levels, including: Director of Policy for the State of New Jersey; Chair of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; Member of the Boards of NJ Transit and the Commission on Science and Technology; and, Senior Economist, Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

President Clinton appointed Van Horn to a Presidential Emergency Board to mediate labor-management disputes in the railroad industry. He is the neutral Trustee of the United Mine Workers Health Fund and a member of the New Brunswick Cultural Center Board.

Van Horn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in Honors Political Science and Sociology and earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science/public policy from the Ohio State University.

Telephone

848.932.1153

vanhorn@rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-van-horn-230999b6/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership