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STEPHEN CRAWFORD

Research Professor

George Washington Institute of Public Policy

George Washington University

805 21st Street, NW (Suite 625)

Washington, DC 20052

crawford@gwu.edu; 202-994-5365 (o)/301-801-3377 (m)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Columbia University, Economic & Political Sociology, 1985

Master of Government Administration (Public Finance), Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. (Government), Cornell University

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, 2009 - 2014

Fulbright Research Award, for research in France and England, 1987-1988

Fulbright/Hayes Group Study Abroad Award (Sri Lanka), 1988

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1986

Distinction, Ph.D. comprehensive exam, Columbia University, 1978

Council for European Studies Fellowship, 1974

Inter-University Consortium for Political Research Summer Fellowship, 1973

President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1972-1973

Public Finance Fellowship, Wharton Business School, U. of PA, 1968-69

EMPLOYMENT

George Washington University: Research Professor, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, 2011 – present.

Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED): VP for Policy & Research and Senior Fellow, 2009-11.

Brookings Institution: Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, 2007-09. Oversaw Great Lakes Economic Initiative and “Restoring Prosperity to Ohio.

National Governors Association: Director, Social, Economic & Workforce Programs, NGA Center for Best Practices, 2002-07. Staffed Gov. Napolitano’s year-long Chair’s Initiative, Innovation America, when she was NGA’s chair.

National Policy Association: Vice President, Treasurer, and Board Secretary, 2000-02. Board included John Sweeney (AFL-CIO), Sandra Feldman (AFT), Frank Carlucci (Carlyle & former Defense Secretary), former SEC Chr. Rod Hills, former Labor Secretary John Dunlop.

State of Maryland: Executive Director, Governors Workforce Investment Board, 1997-2000. Board included business, labor, and education leaders and the state’s secretaries of economic development, education, higher education and labor.

University of Maryland: Executive Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland; Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer, School of Public Policy. Also taught in the University Honors Program and Journalism School, 1990-1996.

Albert Einstein Institution (Cambridge, MA): Executive Director, 1988-90. The Chairman of the Board was Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling.

Bates College: Instructor-Assistant Professor, 1980-87. Taught economic, political, and organizational sociology.

Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia U.: Research Associate, 1976-1978.

Center for Policy Research, Columbia University: part-time Research Assistant, 1972-74, while Ph.D. student.

University of Pennsylvania: Assistant Dean of Men, 1969-71.

BOOK

Technical Workers in an Advanced Society (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“One Point of View: Lifelong Learning and Skill Building,” essay in a forthcoming report by AARP’s Public Policy Institute.

Creative Solutions to Credentialing Chaos,” in Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers, a collaborative project of the Federal Reserve System, the John Heldrich Center at Rutgers U., the Ray Marshall Center at the U. of Texas-Austin (Upjohn Institute Press, 2018).

“Fixing the Credentialing Chaos: A National Tool and State Application,” with Ken Sauer, a chapter in Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers (Upjohn Institute Press, 2016).

"State Strategies for Leveraging Employer Investments in Postsecondary

Education," with Robert Sheets, a published white paper for the National

Commission on Financing Twenty-First Century Higher Education, 2016.

“Creating and Communicating Critical Information about Workforce Credentials,” with Robert Sheets, a chapter in Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century, edited by Carl E. Van Horn, Todd Greene, and Tammy Edwards (Upjohn Institute Press, 2015)

“How Risk-Based Loans would Help Students Achieve Better Outcome,” with Robert Sheets, Suffolk Law Review.

“Managing Risk, Reaping Reward: The Case for a Comprehensive Income-Based Student Loan System,” with Robert Sheets, a chapter in Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability, edited by Andrew Kelly and Sara Goldrick-Rab (Harvard Education Press, 2014).

“Creating Institutional Space for Business Model Innovation,” with Robert Sheets, Continuing Higher Education Review 77: (Fall, 2013).

“Harnessing the Power of Information Technology: Open Business Models in Higher Education,” with Robert Sheets, EDUCAUSE Review 47:2, March/April, 2012, pp. 34-48.

Rethinking Higher Education Business Models: Steps Toward a Disruptive Innovation Approach to Understanding and Improving Higher Education Outcomes, with Robert Sheets and Louis Soares, Center for American Progress Policy Brief, Mar. 28, 2012.

Improving the Poverty Measure by Taking Assets into Account, an op-ed co-authored with Shawn Fremstad, web-published by , Sept. 2010.

The Financial Security of Households with Children, an Assets & Opportunities Program Special Report, co-authored with Kasey Wiedrich, and Leigh Tivol, CFED, May 2010.

Toward a New Business Model for the United States Postal Service, a report commissioned by the United States Postal Service and published on their website, Nov. 2009.

The State's Role in Aligning Workforce and Economic Development, an Issue Brief, co-authored with Martin Simon and Mark Troppe, NGA Center for Best Practices, 2005.

"Engineers in France," a chapter in Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective, edited by Peter Meiksins & Chris Smith, Verso, 1996.

"Changing Technology & National Career Structures," Science, Technology & Human Values 16:2, 1991.

Technical Workers in an Advanced Society, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Parts of this book have been translated into French & German.

“Profession, carrier et citoyenneté: les ingénieurs en France et aux Etats-Unis, co-authored with Alan Silver & Robert Zussman, France-USA: Les Crises du Travail et de la Production, edited by Pierre Bouvier & Olivier Kourchid; Meridiens Klincksieck (Paris), 1988.

“Ingénieurs français et la déqualification,” pp. 199-217, Sociologie du Travail, 1:87, 1987

“Locating Technical Workers in the Class Structure,” co-authored with Peter Whalley, Politics and Society 13:3, 1984.

Légitimé de l’autorité chez les ingénieurs,” Culture Technique, No. 12, 1984.

PUBLICATIONS SUPERVISED AND EDITED

Weathering the Storm: Have IDAs Helped Low-Income Homebuyers Avoid Foreclosure? Ida Rademacher, Kasey Wiedrich, Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe and Megan Gallagher (CFED and The Urban Institute, 2010).

Upside Down: America’s $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget, Beadsie Woo, Ida Rademacher, & Jillien Meier (CFED and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2010).

Turning up the Heat: How Venture Capital Can Help Fuel the Economic Transformation of the Great Lakes Region, Frank Samuel, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, 2009.

Toward a New Frontier: Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border, Chris Sands (Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and Hudson Institute, 2008).

The Vital Connection: Reclaiming Great Lakes Economic Leadership, John Austin et al, (Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, 2008).

Innovation America: A Final Report (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2008)

Investing in Innovation, Mary Jo Waits et al. (NGA Center for Best Practices and the Pew Center on the States, 2008).

A Compact for Post-Secondary Education, C. Hayter (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2008).

Cluster-Based Strategies for Growing State Economies, Stuart Rosenfeld (NGA Center for Best Practices and Council on Competitiveness, 2007).

State Policies to Help Youth Transition Out of Foster Care, Courtney Smith et al. (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2007).

State Sector Strategies: Regional Solutions to Worker and Employer Needs, Martin Simon et al. (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2006).

Improving Access to Benefits for Low-Income Families, Linda Hoffman (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2006).

The Wait is Over, the Work Begins: Implementing the New TANF Legislation, Susan Golonka et al. (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2006).

Improving Prisoner Reentry Through Strategic Policy Innovations, Thomas McClellan (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2005).

A Governor’s Guide to Strengthening State Entrepreneurship Policy, Phil Psilos et al, NGA Center for Best Practices, 2004.

REVIEWS, BLOGS and TALKS

Available upon request. They range from lectures at the University of Paris and Maison des Sciences de l’homme to research presentations at the conferences of the Federal Reserve Bank and APPAM, ASA, SSTI, IEDC, MEP, AAU, CUSU, NLC, APLU, AACC, AAC&U, LERA, etc, to keynote speeches for chambers and nonprofits, to peer reviews for scholarly journals, most recently Economic Development Quarterly (Dec., 2010 and April, 2018). A recent paper, “Managing Risk, Reaping Reward: Redesigning Federal Student Loan Policy to Improve Performance in Higher Education,” co-authored with Robert Sheets, was presented at the American Enterprise Institute’s conference on student financial aid policy, The Trillion-Dollar Question, June 24, 2013. A paper entitled “Creating and Communicating Critical Information about Workforce Credentials,” co-authored with Robert Sheets, was presented Oct. 16, 2014 at a conference at Rutgers University sponsored by the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and the Atlanta and Kansas City regional Federal Reserve Banks.

VISITING SCHOLAR

• University of Paris X, Paris, France, 1992.

• Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, England, 1987-1988.

• Laboratoire d’Economie et Sociologie du Travail, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1987.

• University of Maryland, Department of Sociology, 1978-80.

• Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique, CNRS, Paris, 1977-1978.

GRANTS

• National Science Foundation

• Ford Foundation

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

• National Institutes of Standards and Technology

• Lumina Foundation (several grants, including two at present)

POLITICAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE

Member, Board of Directors, American National Standards Institute and its Audit Committee.

Member, Board of Directors, WORKCRED, Inc.

Presidential Nominee for appointment to the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors, 2012-16; nominated five times, unanimously approved by Senate committee three times, not confirmed by full Senate due to holds placed by votes by one or more senators on one of the others in a “package” of nominees.

Obama-Biden Transition Team: Agency Review Team Leader responsible for reviewing the U.S. Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission, 2008-09

Graduate of Leadership Frederick Country and Leadership Maryland

Candidate for Congress: Won Democratic primary election in 1996; lost general election to Republican incumbent, obtaining 44% in district in which President Clinton won 37% that year.

Elected Member: Frederick County (MD) Board of Education, 1998-01

Special Advisor: Maryland Higher Education Commission, 1999-00

Former member: Frederick Community College Community Education Council; Frederick County Substance Abuse Advisory Council, Frederick County Chamber of Commerce, Carroll Creek Rotary Club, and board of the Frederick County chapter of American Red Cross

MILITARY EXPERIENCE: U.S. Army: Private - 1st Lieutenant, 1964-69

• Basic Training, Ft. Dix, NJ; Advanced Individual Training, Ft. Knox, KY

• Infantry Officer’s Candidate School, Ft. Benning, GA

• Airborne and Ranger Schools, Ft. Benning, GA

• Parachuting Instructor, Ft. Benning, GA

• Special Warfare School, Ft. Bragg, NC

• Battalion Advisor with U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam to the 9th Infantry Division of ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam)

• Special Forces reserve unit, Philadelphia, PA

• Awards: Six, including Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, and Cross of Gallantry-Gold Star (awarded by the former Republic of Vietnam)

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