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A Fond Farewell to Founding Director Brian J. Turner
Posted September 2016
Today, the first day of September, officially marks the retirement of the Transportation Learning Center’s Founding Director, Brian J. Turner.
Read more...A Fond Farewell to Founding Director Brian J. Turner
Posted August 2016
Today, the first day of September, officially marks the retirement of the Transportation Learning Center’s Founding Director, Brian J. Turner. Working with former Transport Workers Union President Sonny Hall, Turner created the Center in 2000 as a nonprofit institution that could bring labor and management together around shared concerns on skills training and safety. Dr. Beverly Scott, then leading an APTA task force on the future of the transit workforce, was recruited by Turner and became an early and enthusiastic management representative on the first Board of Directors.
Read more...High School Students and Recent Graduates Honored at MBTA’s Summer Intern Graduation
Posted August 2016
On Wednesday, August 24, dignitaries from the Massachusetts ‘ Departments of Transportation and Labor and Workforce Development and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), along with local educators, gathered to honor thirty students as they graduated from the MassDOT Summer Intern Transportation Institute. During the seven-week summer program, students—from rising juniors to recent graduates, almost all from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School (MPTVHS)—worked in a range of positions in MBTA and MassDOT offices and shops and participated in weekly professional development training and transportation-related field trips.
Read more...Former Center Associate June Sekera Releases Book Proposing New Theory of Public Economics
Posted August 2016
In her new book The Public Economy in Crisis a Call for a New Public Economics, June Sekera proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance.
Read more...Join Center Program Director John Schiavone for Presentation on Bus Apprenticeship
Posted August 2016
Program Director John Schiavone will discuss the challenges faced nationally by agencies urgently seeking to find qualified replacements for senior technicians who are retiring at alarming rates.
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