1. Continental Breakfast for Commission Members - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

2. Welcome and Announcements - 10:00 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.
   

   Ed Flippen
   Commission Chairman
   
   Dr. Belle S. Wheelan
   President, Northern Virginia Community College

3. Financing Higher Education in America - 9:40 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

   John Crowley
   Academic School Representative
   Sallie Mae

4. Workforce Panel I - 10:10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

   Dr. Alan G. Merten
   President, George Mason University

   The Honorable Cheri Pierson Yecke
   Deputy Secretary of Education

   Mr. Willie Blanton
   Director, Workforce Investment Act

5. Workforce Panel II - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

   The Honorable Donald W. Upson
   Secretary of Technology

   Dr. Joy Hughes
   Vice President for Information Technology
   George Mason University

   Dr. Rachel D. Fowlkes
   Executive Director
   Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center

6. LUNCH FOR COMMISSION MEMBERS - 12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

   (Note: The Commission will work through lunch)

7. Economic Development and Research Panel - 12:45 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.

   Ms. Anne A. Armstrong
   Virginia Center for Innovation Technology
   

   Mr. Rob McClintock
   Virginia Economic Development Partnership

   Dr. David J. Hudson
   Associate Vice President for Research
   University of Virginia

   Mr. John G. Rocovich, Jr.
   Moss & Rocovich

8. A View From Florida - 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Dr. Kenneth P. Walker President, Edison Community College

9. Concluding Comments and Administrative Matters - 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

   Ed Flippen
   Commission Chairperson

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Posted: October 15, 1999
By The Educational Policy Institute of Virginia Tech
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