BIOGRAPHIES

September 27–28, 2009

David Allen
Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer, University of Colorado

David N. Allen became the University of Colorado’s assistant vice president for
technology transfer in February 2002. In June 2003 he was promoted to
associate vice president. As AVP he has responsibility for intellectual property
and technology licensing matters across the three CU campuses. Dr. Allen’s
primary objective is to continue the momentum that has led to a turnaround of the CU technology
transfer operation so it becomes one of the top technology transfer operations in the U.S.

Previously, Dr. Allen was the assistant vice president for technology partnerships at Ohio State
University. In this role, he had responsibility for the Offices for Technology Licensing, Technology
Partnerships and Business and Industry Contracts. Before coming to Ohio State in 1997, Dr. Allen was
assistant vice president for technology and economic development at Ohio University, Athens. From
1991 to 1997, he managed two OU technology development programs: the Innovation Center Program
and the Technology Transfer Office. Additional duties were assumed from July 1992 to October 1995
when he was the director of Ohio University's Edison Biotechnology Institute.

Prior to working at Ohio University, he was a public policy and business administration professor at
Pennsylvania State University, University Park. While at Penn State he was a consultant to a seed
venture capital firm. He earned a PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, in political economy in
1980.

L. Steven Dempsey
Associate Vice President for Public Service and Outreach,
University of Georgia

Steve Dempsey is the associate vice president for public service and
outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA). Dempsey helps guide the
office’s Community and Economic Development Initiative, which includes the
Archway Partnership Project, Poverty and the Economy Initiative, the UGARF
Poverty Grants Program, and the Intellectual Capital Partnership Program
(ICAPP) partnership with the University System of Georgia (USG). He also
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coordinates strategic planning, performance measures development, director and institution reviews,
public service faculty promotion, the Hill awards, Staff Award for Excellence, and the Public Service and
Outreach annual meeting and awards program.

In his previous position as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Community and Area Development
(ICAD), Dempsey’s work in community economic development focused on the development and
implementation of the creative group problem-solving laboratory and participatory policy design at
UGA. He also provided management consultation to state and local government, recreation service
delivery agencies, growth-management related issues, and facilitator training.

Dempsey earned a B.S. degree from Montclair State College, an M.S. degree from Western Kentucky
University, and an Ed.D. from The University of Georgia.

Emily DeRocco
Senior Vice President, National Association of Manufacturers; President,
Manufacturing Institute

Emily DeRocco is president of The Manufacturing Institute and its new National
Center for the American Workforce and Senior Vice President of the National
Association of Manufacturers. Elected by The Manufacturing Institute’s Board
of Trustees on March 5, 2008, she will oversee the education and research arm
of the NAM and the design and operations of the new national center
dedicated to fostering a new generation of manufacturing workers for the 21st
century.
Nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Labor in
2001, DeRocco was responsible for managing a $10 billion investment in the nation’s workforce in her
previous position. She created and implemented regional economic development initiatives in 39
regions across the nation during her tenure, using talent development strategies to drive competitive
advantage for America’s businesses. Her responsibilities included implementation of Trade Adjustment
Assistance for displaced workers, alternative educational pathways for the nation’s youth, the
permanent and temporary foreign labor certification programs for employment-based immigration, the
national apprenticeship program, and workforce development programs nationwide. She created and
led Presidential initiatives to align education, economic development, and workforce development
investments and to increase the capacity of the nation’s community college system.

During her tenure with the Labor Department, DeRocco chaired or vice-chaired numerous boards and
commissions, including the Education and Workforce Committee of the Secretary of Education’s
Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the Education and Workforce Committee of the
Department of Commerce’s Interagency Working Group on Manufacturing, and the President’s
Committee on Economic Adjustment for the Defense Department’s Base Realignment and Adjustment
Commission. She also was active on the National Advisory Board of the Manufacturing Extension
Partnership.

DeRocco has represented the United States and led delegations in international forums including the G-
8 Labor Ministerials, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Western
Hemisphere Competitiveness Forum, U.S.-Canada Policy Forums, and U.S.-EU Dialogues.

DeRocco also brings over 10 years of private sector experience in managing a national non-profit
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organization and prior federal government experience at the Departments of Energy and Interior, the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. DeRocco is a proud
graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown
Law Center.

Art Dunning
Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia

Appointed in May 2000, Dr. Art Dunning serves as the vice president
for public service and outreach and associate provost at the University
of Georgia (UGA). He is responsible for developing and communicating
a vision for public service and outreach that is consistent with the
needs of a changing society, while ensuring the vision is integrated into
the University’s research and instruction missions. Dunning provides
leadership to the broad array of public service and outreach programs
and activities at the University and to the seven units on campus that report directly to him.

Prior to coming to the University of Georgia, Dunning spent a total of nine years with the Board
of Regents of the University System of Georgia in three capacities: vice chancellor for services,
acting executive vice chancellor and finally as the senior vice chancellor for Human and External
Resources. He was responsible for assisting the chancellor in strategic planning and policy
development and for the execution of all policies, rules and regulations of the Board of Regents.
Dunning was also responsible for External Affairs, which included media and public relations
outreach, public service and economic development, and legislative affairs; Legal Affairs, and
Human Resources for the University System. He provided counsel and assistance to campus
president in System policy and operational matters.
Dunning served as the chief executive officer of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in
Education, Inc., a cooperative effort among the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia
Economic Developers Association, and the Georgia Alliance for Public Education. He was
responsible for the leadership necessary to create a strategic plan to ensure quality public
education in Georgia at all levels: K-12, technical and adult education, and the University
System of Georgia.

In addition to Dunning’s experience at the University of Alabama, he lived and worked overseas
for two years. Working for the United States Department of Defense’s Office of Civilian
Personnel in Bangkok, Thailand, Dunning was responsible for anticipating and providing for the
post secondary educational needs of 2,400 Department of Defense dependents through
relationships and agreements with 14 tuition fee and two correspondence schools servicing all
of Thailand.

Dunning’s associations with the Carter Presidential Center and the United Nations have led him
to Africa and Austria. He has participated in various other international activities in such
countries as China, Ghana, Czechoslovakia, England, France and Brazil.

Dunning holds three degrees from the University of Alabama, including a doctorate in higher
education. He also studied at Vanderbilt University.
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 Hiram Fitzgerald
Associate Provost, University Outreach and Engagement,
Michigan State University
Hiram Fitzgerald (Ph.D., University of Denver, 1967) is University Distinguished
Professor of Psychology (Developmental) and Associate Provost for University
Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. He is chairperson of
the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Committee on Engagement, is a
member of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities’ CEO Task
Force on Engagement, is president of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, and was a member
of the Carnegie Foundation Classification Work Team for Community Engagement. He has been actively
involved with national efforts to define and measure the scholarship of engagement, create institutional
alignment, develop effective models of community-university partnerships, and establish standards of
practice for such partnerships. Fitzgerald also is Co-Director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study of
Family Risk over the Life Course, is a member of the Early Head Start National Research Consortium and
the Father and Risk-Resilience Work Groups, serves on the advisory committee of the University of
Colorado, Denver National Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Head Start Research. He has
authored or co-authored over 460 scholarly publications, including 171 peer reviewed journal articles,
72 chapters, and 73 books across the major areas of his research interests. He is Senior Editor of “Crisis
in Youth Mental Health (4 volumes)” (Praeger Press), and the forthcoming “Child Development and
Mental Health: Ethno Racial Perspectives (10 volumes)” (Praeger Press). He is editor of the Infant
Mental Health Journal and Associate Editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and
Engagement.

Timothy V. Franklin
Director, Office of Economic and Workforce Development,
Penn State University

Dr. Franklin is responsible for developing relationships with state and

federal government agencies, economic and workforce development
organizations, other postsecondary education institutions, as well as
businesses and industries, to match Penn State resources, expertise and
intellectual assets with economic development, workforce education and
training needs. The Office of Economic and Workforce Development also
provides leadership to the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program,
Workforce Development Initiatives, Small Business Development Center, and the Pennsylvania Plastics
Initiative.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Franklin served for nearly seven years as Director of University Outreach
Programs, Southside Virginia for Virginia Tech. As part of the university's "Southside Initiative," he was
founding Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research CIALR), a unique
regional stewarding institution that serves as a catalyst for the revitalization of Southside Virginia's
economy through technology commercialization, applied university-led research, outreach, advanced
learning, and advanced networking and technology.

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Under Franklin's leadership, the project was recently recognized with the C. Peter Magrath/W. K. Kellogg
Foundation Engagement Award for the South Region. Sponsored by the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the award recognizes community-university partnerships that use
university scholarship and programs to address a community challenge. As South Region winner, Virginia
Tech's Southside Initiative competed with four other finalists at the 2007 Outreach Scholarship
Conference and won the national Engagement Award at the 2007 NASULGC Conference.

Franklin also served for eight years as Associate Vice President for Government Relations and Planning
at Indiana State University.

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine appointed Dr. Franklin to the Southern Technology Council of the Southern
Growth Policies Board, a regional think tank affiliated with the Southern Governors Association. Franklin
also served on the Strategic Planning Advisory Committee of the State Council for Higher Education in
Virginia and was a member of the 2007 Institute for Emerging Issues eNC) Transforming Higher
Education Task Force. He also is involved with the National Association of State Universities and Land-
Grant Colleges and the University Economic Development Association.

Franklin has made numerous invited presentations on economic development and strategic planning at
national conferences. He earned his bachelor's degree from Springfield College, his master's degree
from the University of Southern California, and his doctoral degree in educational research and
evaluation from Virginia Tech. He and his wife, Nancy, have 3 children.

Amy Glasmeier
Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

Amy Glasmeier is Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and professor of geography and
regional planning there. She serves as an adviser and researcher for the
Appalachian Regional Commission, and from 2005 to 2007 she was
reappointed as the John Whisman Scholar of the Commission. She has worked with numerous federal
agencies, and international development organizations in constructing development policies to alleviate
poverty and promote economic opportunity. She is currently developing a series of reports for the Ford
Foundation on the utilization of energy as a catalyst for community economic, business, and workforce
development in low-wealth communities. The project examines the potential to rapidly deploy energy
efficiency and renewable-energy investments to achieve economic security for families and business.

William Kittredge
Director, National Programs and Performance Evaluation,
Economic Development Administration

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William P. Kittredge is the Director of National Programs and Performance Evaluation. He has served in
this position since its creation in 2006. Dr. Kittredge’s responsibilities include administration of the
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms program, the Research program, and National Technical
Assistance program. He is responsible for the development and implementation of performance
measures and metrics for all EDA programs. The office also provides IMPLAN and ARC- GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) analysis for EDA.

Dr. Kittredge is an internationally recognized program evaluation and performance measurement

authority. Dr. Kittredge has been engaged in strategic planning, program evaluation and performance
management since the inception of the Oregon Benchmarks and has served as project director for its
1996 update. He served as the senior analyst and project manager for the Pew Trust funded
Government Performance Project from 1997-2000. His former students and interns mentored in his
office now occupy senior positions at OMB, GAO, World Bank, Grant Thornton, CitiFinancial, and many
local governments.

Dr. Kittredge’s research has been published in academic journals, including Public Administration Review
and Municipal Finance Journal, and in the popular press, including USA Today. He is the author of two
books addressing local government budgeting and financial condition analysis. His commentary has
been broadcast by National Public Radio and Bloomberg News. He receives frequent invitations to
lecture and to speak at conferences, and participates as a peer reviewer in his areas of expertise.

Prior to seeking an advanced degree, he served in local elected office. His decade long local and regional
government service included an appointment to the Washington Public Power Supply System
Participants’ Review Board and a tour as Special Regional Resource to the House Bonneville Power
Administration Task Force.

Dr. Kittredge began his public service career following a successful 15 year private sector career that
included the founding and subsequent sale of two small businesses.

Dr. Kittredge received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at
Syracuse University. He received his M.S. (Public Policy) from the University of Oregon, where he was
admitted by exception without an undergraduate degree.

His voluntary public service includes teaching Practical Economics at the high school level through Junior
Achievement. The Veterans Administration awarded certificates recognizing his over 600 volunteer
hours counseling Vietnam era veterans.

A native of Cape Cod, he enjoys white water rafting, scuba diving, and sea kayaking.

Neal Noyes
Director, Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and
Community Revitalization Commission

Neal Noyes was appointed in 2006 by Governor Kaine to his current position as
Executive Director of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community
Revitalization Commission. The Tobacco Commission was established in 1999 as
a non-general fund agency of the

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Commonwealth with the legislative mandate to indemnify tobacco growers and quota holders for losses
sustained as a consequence of the elimination of quotas, and to undertake the financing of revitalization
initiatives designed to restore the economic vitality of political subdivisions that were dependent on
tobacco production. As Executive Director, Mr. Noyes reports directly to the Commonwealth Secretary
of Commerce and Trade and to the Chairman of a thirty-on member Board of Directors comprised of
cabinet level officials, state legislators, active tobacco producers and citizen members.

Prior his appointment to the Tobacco Commission and beginning in 1983, Mr. Noyes served as U.S.
Department of Commerce Economic Development Representative to Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and
the District of Columbia. Neal also worked at the Philadelphia Regional Office of the U.S. Economic
Development Administration for several years in senior staff positions before relocating to Virginia.

Mr. Noyes was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana in 1973 and
a Master of Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976. While at Temple, Neal
worked as a Graduate Assistant and H.B. Earhart Foundation Fellow at the Center for the Study of
Federalism.

Neal resides with wife Nancy in Chesterfield County.

Ed Paisley
Vice President for Editorial, Center for American Progress

Ed Paisley is Vice President for Editorial at American Progress. He is a 20-year

veteran of business and finance journalism who joined American Progress
after successfully launching the specialist Wall Street print and web
publication The Deal as its managing editor. At The Deal, he was also
responsible for the publication’s award-winning coverage of technology
finance and international finance.  

Before moving to New York to launch The Deal in 1999, Paisley spent a
decade in East Asia as an editor and journalist covering business, finance, and politics for the Far Eastern
Economic Review, a Dow Jones & Co. publication, and Institutional Investor magazine.
Paisley served as the editor of Institutional Investor’s Asia edition for five years, winning an Overseas
Press Club award for his coverage of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997. From
1989 to 1994, he worked as a print and broadcast journalist for the Far Eastern Economic Review based
in Hong Kong and Seoul and traveling throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia. Prior to that, he worked
as a correspondent for American Banker newspaper in Washington D.C. covering domestic and
international financial regulation. 

Paisley earned a master’s degree in East Asian history from Georgetown University in 1984 and a
bachelor’s degree in American Studies from George Mason University in 1982. He also spent a year as a
resident docent at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, where he studied Chinese art history.

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Irene Petrick
Professor of Practice of Information Sciences and Technology; Faculty Administrative Fellow in the Office
of Economic and Workforce Development, Penn State

Irene J. Petrick is a Professor of Practice who has been in the College of Information Sciences and
Technology since 2003. Prior to joining IST, she spent three years as an assistant professor of Industrial
Engineering. In addition to her professorial activities, she has over 25 years of experience in technology
planning, management and product development in both the academic and industrial settings. She is
author or co-author on more than 100 publications and presentations.

Dr. Petrick specializes in innovation, technology forecasting, roadmapping, and systems management.
Recently she has been focusing on global collaboration and supply network effectiveness. While
remaining a full-time faculty member, Petrick has received the Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship
(2005), has been a Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Faculty Intern on global assignment in India
(Summer 2008), Directed the Enterprise Informatics and Integration Center (2007 to 5/2009) and most
recently is working as a Faculty Administrative Fellow with Penn State’s Office of Economic and
Workforce Development for 2009.

Since she joined academia in 2000, Dr. Petrick has been supported by a variety of sponsors in projects
valued at over $5 million, including IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Metal Powders Industry Federation, U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S. Marine Corps, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, the PA
Department of Environmental Protection and the PA Department of Commerce. She is also actively
engaged with companies in their roadmapping and technology strategy activities, including work with
ten Fortune 100 companies, the U.S. military, and a wide variety of small to medium sized enterprises.

Theodore J. Settle
Director, Office of Economic Development, Virginia Tech

Dr. Settle's career covers both academia and industry. Ted directed Tech's
Continuing Education from 1992-2002. At the NCR Corporation in Dayton, Ohio,
he directed the NCR Management College for ten years. Ted also worked with
the Illinois Board of Higher Education as assistant director for Academic and
Health Affairs. Over the course of his career, he designed and implemented training and organizational
development plans, evaluation practices, and personnel policies for various companies and
organizations. He has delivered in excess of 70 papers, presentations, and speeches at venues ranging
from professional organization conferences to United States Congressional hearings.

The University Continuing Education Association honored Ted with the creation of an award in his name.
The new award will be called the "Ted Settle Award for Distinguished Service to the Outreach and
Engagement Community of Practice."

Settle started the "Community of Practice on Outreach and Engagement" within the University
Continuing Education Association to convene individuals interested in exploring and considering the
applicability of the concepts of outreach and engagement to their institutional environments. It grew
from zero to 170 members in less than 2 years. Settle has also held numerous other leadership positions
in the Association, including serving on the Board of Directors.

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Ted earned his B.S. in mathematics from Iowa State University, his M.B.A. from Harvard University, and
his Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Michigan.

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 Craig Weidemann
Vice President for Outreach, Penn State University

Dr. Craig D. Weidemann was named Penn State's vice president for outreach in
2003. In this position he oversees the University's outreach initiatives and is
responsible for Continuing Education, Penn State Online, the World Campus,
Penn State Public Broadcasting, Economic and Workforce Development, and
Cooperative Extension.

Penn State Outreach is the largest unified outreach organization in American higher education. Each
year Penn State touches one out of every two households in the Commonwealth, serving more than 95
million participants, viewers, and listeners at more than 125 locations, and from all 50 states and 80
countries.

Dr. Weidemann has been recognized for his leadership and contributions in higher education with the
Julius M. Nolte Award from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA). In 2006 he was
selected by the University of Georgia's College of Education Awards Committee to receive the
Professional Achievement Alumni Award.

Dr. Weidemann has served two terms on the Commission on Lifelong Learning of the American Council
on Education. In 2004 he was appointed to the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board by Governor
Rendell. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania College of
Technology.

Dr. Weidemann has held a number of national leadership positions with UCEA, including serving on the
board of directors and chairing the National Task Force on Displaced Professionals and the Division of
Business, Industry, and Labor. He is secretary of the Council on Engagement and Outreach of the
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and serves on the
Committee on Engagement of the CIC (the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the
University of Chicago). Dr. Weidemann also serves as the treasurer of the National Outreach Scholarship
Conference Partnership.

Prior to his appointment at Penn State, Dr. Weidemann was the vice provost and executive assistant to
the president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In that position he led several
outreach initiatives, including the Deutsche Banc/Alex. Brown Center for Science and Technology
Entrepreneurship and the UMBC President's Advisory Council on Business Outreach. He provided the
leadership for the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program, a nationally recognized academic program for
minority students in the sciences, and was responsible for supervising the UMBC's Division I athletic
program in the America East Conference. During his tenure as vice provost at UMBC, Dr. Weidemann
served on the Greater Baltimore Technology Council and the Information Technology Task Force of the
Governor's Workforce Investment Board; he was chair of the Baltimore County Technology Council for
three years.

Dr. Weidemann has also served as associate vice president for research and dean of the College of
Graduate and Extended Education at Towson University, where he led the campus graduate program,
research agenda, and academic outreach initiative. And he has held administrative positions at Johns
Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Weidemann serves on the board of directors of Special Olympics Pennsylvania and has held a
number of other leadership positions with nonprofit organizations. He has written and presented on

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various topics, including adult learning and memory, board management, strategic partnerships,
workforce issues, continuing education, and managerial issues in higher education. He has taught
courses on education, leadership, and management at several universities.

Dr. Weidemann earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at Illinois State University and his doctorate
in educational psychology at the University of Georgia.

Dr. James Zuiches

Vice Chancellor for Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development,
North Carolina State University

Dr. Zuiches leads and coordinates all extension, engagement and economic
development programs of the university, including the Cooperative Extension
Service, Industrial Extension Service, Small Business and Technology
Development Center, non-credit programs of the Jane S. McKimmon Center for
Extension and Continuing Education, the Economic Development Partnership,
and the General H. Hugh Shelton Initiative for Leadership Development. Prior to
joining NC State, Zuiches served as dean of the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics at Washington State University, 1995-2003, and concurrently as director of Cooperative
Extension and the Agricultural Research Center for four years and professor in the Department of
Community and Rural Sociology. He had previously served as director of the Agricultural Research
Center (the State Agricultural Experiment Station), 1986-1994, and associate dean of the college.

As a W. K. Kellogg Foundation program officer in 1994-95, Zuiches funded many community and rural
development projects. The Kellogg Foundation and other foundations are funding his current project to
create the National Coalition for Rural Entrepreneurship and increase support for job creation and
economic growth in rural areas. Prior to his appointment at Washington State, Zuiches served at Cornell
University (1982-86), the National Science Foundation (1979-82), and Michigan State University (1971-
79). His research specializations include demography, rural sociology and research administration. He
has more than 70 publications, including edited books, professional journal articles, book chapters,
bulletins and editorials. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and his B.A. in philosophy and sociology from the University of Portland, Portland, OR.

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