Midwestern Regional Forum 2008
Awards Luncheon Speaker
Jane Oates:
Jane Oates is the executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and senior policy advisor to Governor Jon S. Corzine. Prior to joining Corzine in March, 2006, she was the senior policy advisor on higher education, national service, adult literacy, education research, and workforce issues to Senator Edward M. Kennedy for the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP).
While in the Senate, Oates was chief staff to the Democratic members of the HELP Committee for two reauthorizations of the Higher Education Act, the reauthorization of the Office of Educational Research, the creation and implementation of the Workforce Investment Act, and The Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act.
