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253 William B. Bonvillian: How Can We Rebuild America’s Working Class

About William B. Bonvillian

William B. Bonvillian

William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in its departments of Science Technology and Society and Political Science. He is also Director, Special Projects, MIT Office of Digital Learning, engaged in a research project on workforce education.

Previously, from 2006-2017, he was Director of MIT’s Washington, D.C. Office, working to support MIT’s strong and historic relations with federal R&D agencies, and its role on national science policy. Prior to that position, he served for seventeen years as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Senate working on science and technology policies and innovation issues.

He has lectured and given speeches before numerous universities and organizations on science, technology, and innovation questions, and is also on the adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is on the National Academies’ Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board’s Standing Committee on the Science Policy Forum, and served for seven years on the Board on Science Education, and on four other Academies’ committees. He chairs the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, and serves on the Board of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and the Advisory Council of the Mystic Seaport Museum. He was the recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Public Service Award in 2007 and was elected a Fellow by the AAAS in 2011.

His book, with Peter Singer, entitled Advanced Manufacturing – The New American Innovation Policies, was released by MIT Press in January 2018. His prior book, with Distinguished Prof. Charles Weiss of Georgetown (ret.), entitled Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Their book Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution was published by MIT Press in 2009, He has written extensively on science and technology policy issues in numerous journals, including Science, Issues in Science and Technology, Nature, Science and Public Policy, Innovations, Journal of Technology Transfer, Environment, and American Interest, and chapters in books published by Brookings, Stanford Univ. Press, University of Edinburgh, and the National Academies.

Early in his career, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation, working on major transportation deregulation legislation. Prior to the Senate, he was a partner at a large national law firm. He received a B.A. from Columbia University with honors, an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School; and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served on the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to a noted Federal Judge in New York.

Where to find William B. Bonvillian

Website: www.bonvillian.org

Workforce Education: A New Roadmap

A roadmap for how we can rebuild America’s working class by transforming workforce education and training.

The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence.

Workforce Education by William B. Bonvillian

Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America’s working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country.

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