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Team Pennsylvania Developing world-class workforce
	Martha Harris, chief executive officer of the Team Pennsylvania Human Resources Investment Council, described how Pennsylvania is building a workforce with the knowledge and skills needed for success during a meeting of key Penn State leaders. Harris discussed the Human Resources Investment Council’s customer-driven approach to workforce programs with associate deans, campus executive officers and other University administrators preparing a follow-up strategic plan to address Pennsylvania’s workforce education needs. In the group photo above, Harris (third from left) is shown with some of the University administrators who attended the session, from left: Donald W. Leslie, associate dean for undergraduate study, College of Arts and Architecture; Dr. Patricia A. Book, associate vice president for outreach and executive director, Division of Continuing Education; and Dr. James H. Ryan, vice president for Outreach and Cooperative Extension. Gov. Tom Ridge established the Human Resources Investment Council in 1998. The council is taking more than 100 federal job-training programs and 37 state-administered workforce education programs and aligning and integrating them “to ensure our ultimate customers, the taxpayers, get what they deserve for their $600 million investment,” Harris said.