Sunday, April 03, 2011

WVOX PROGRAM THIS FRIDAY FEATURES FORMER US ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

•Katherine Tobin, formerDeputy Assistant Secretary for Performance Improvement, Office of Management will be my guest on my WVOX radio program this Friday, April 8th from 10 AM to 11 AM (1460 AM or www.wvox.com). E mail me at pfeiner@greenburghny.com with suggested questions you'd like me to ask.
Katherine Tobin comes to the Department of Education having served three years as a governor of the U.S. Postal Service, appointed by the president in 2006. In that role, she provided strategic vision to its executive team, helped direct and control expenditures, review business practices, conduct long-range planning, and set policies on all postal matters. Tobin also chaired the board's Audit & Finance Committee. Tobin has 18 years of experience in education, having served as a college and university administrator, a member of university and college faculties, and a trained social scientist, leading research teams at organizations such as Catalyst, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women in business. She also worked as a manager and social scientist at Hewlett-Packard and IBM and created and ran her own company for four years. Tobin earned a Ph.D. and Master of Arts degree from Stanford University's School of Education. She earned a Master of Arts in teaching from the University of Massachusetts' School of Education, and a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from Skidmore College.

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