John H. Bishop Research Materials
Collection Number: /4353
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
John H. Bishop Research Materials,
Collection Number:
/4353
Creator:
Bishop, John H.
Quantity:
13 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Language:
Collection material in English
John H. Bishop is a member of the Department of Human Resource Studies at the New
York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is also
Executive Director of the Educational Excellence Alliance, a consortium of 300 high
schools in 5 Northeastern states that are studying ways to improve school climate
and student engagement. He received his Bachelors Degree from Oberlin College in
1962. After two years in the Peace Corps in Northern Nigeria, he studied Economics
at the University of Michigan, obtaining a Masters in 1967 and a PhD in 1974.
Professor Bishop has published numerous articles on education reform, the impact of
the quality of education on the productivity of individuals and nations, the impact
of the hiring, training and promotion policies of business on incentives for
students to study and schools to set high standards, the determinants of and payoffs
to employer training and the effectiveness of institutions which match workers and
jobs.
Prior to coming to Cornell in 1986, John was director of the Center for Research on
Youth Employability and Associate Director: Research at the National Center for
Research in Vocational Education. He has served on numerous advisory committees: the
Job Training Partnership Experiment Advisory Committee, the Advisory Panel for the
Office of Technology Assessment's study Training in the Workplace, Advisory
Committee on Federal Workforce Quality Assessment, and Education Committee of the
Competitiveness Policy Council. He chaired the Admissions and Incentives
Subcommittee of the SUNY Task Group on Public Education and Co-chaired the Goal 5
Technical Planning Subgroup on International Workforce Skills of the National
Education Goals Panel. He has testified before Congressional Committees numerous
times--most recently on February 2, 1995 before the Senate Subcommittee on
Education, Arts and Humanities chaired by Senator Jeffords.
(Biography taken from Cornell University web page:
https://works.bepress.com/john_bishop/. Accessed October 04, 2018.)
Names:
Bishop, John H.
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
John H. Bishop Research Materials #/4353. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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