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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2005
Alumni News
Alum talks with students about job
opportunities
La Follette School alumnus Jason Bittner, right, talks with student Jeff Sartin and other students about careers in transportation policy and management. Bittner is a program manager with the Midwest Regional University Transportation Center at the University of Wisconsin's-Madison’s College of Engineering.
Jon P. Skavlem is director of state and local tax services for Virchow Krause and Co., LLP. After graduating from the La Follette School’s precursor, the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration, in December 1977, he worked as a budget analyst and economist for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s Research and Analysis Division. He joined Virchow Krause in 2002. He credits his experiences at the “Center” and his internships as instrumental in establishing his career in state and local tax.
Craig Wieber left U.S. Rep. Mark Green’s office in Washington, D.C., in October 2004 and took a position as an executive budget officer with the Minnesota Department of Finance. He graduated in 2002.
Marlia Moore, a 2004 graduate, is a fiscal analyst with the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Ronald Luskin, a 1979 graduate, was named vice president, director of marketing for Marshall Erdman & Associates, which specializes in the design and construction of medical facilities. Luskin’s graduate studies focused on health-care policy and public information.
Alumni needed to help students with job searches, mentoring
In today’s competitive job market, finding work after graduation has become more difficult and time-consuming.
To help students master different approaches to their job searches, the La Follette School’s Career Development Office is seeking alumni willing to be contacted by students for informational interviews.
This newly expanded list is directly available to students who want to know what kinds of work La Follette graduates do.
Through this list, alumni and students can enjoy mutually beneficial exchanges in a simple, straightforward way.
Through informational interviews, alumni can help students with techniques, provide advice on applications and give encouragement when job prospects fall through. They also can celebrate when students succeed.
This list supplements the
La Follette School’s Alumni
Network that Career Development coordinators have used to connect students with alumni.
To give permission to be
listed, sign up through our Alumni Network, or contact (608) 265-6724, .
Terry Lierman has been elected chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and to the executive committee of the State Democratic Chairs Association for which he represents 11 northeastern states. A 1971 graduate of the La Follette School’s precursor, the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration, Lierman supports the school by serving on its Board of Visitors.
Gordon Hintz, a 2001 graduate, ran unsuccessfully for the Wisconsin Assembly in fall 2004, his first bid for office. Several La Follette School alumni contributed to his campaign and attended fund-raisers in Washington, D.C., and Madison, he reports. “Nothing could have prepared me more to discuss and debate all aspects of the public policy challenges Wisconsin faces than my La Follette School education.” He is a consultant with Public Administration Associates, LLC, specializing in city administrator searches and budget and personnel studies. He is running for the 6th Congressional District Democratic chair.
Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, the prime minister of Bhutan who earned his master’s degree in public affairs from La Follette’s predecessor, the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration, met with the U.S. assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration in October.
Jennifer Strei, who graduated in 2004, is a management analyst with the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
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