Mary Lindenstein Walshok

Dr. Mary Lindenstein Walshok RNO1kl (born 1942) is an American educational sociologist.

Education

Career

She is currently employed as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Public Programs and the Dean of Extended Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology. The Department of Extended Studies, also called UCSD Extension, provides education and training to adults who are not enrolled as SDSU students, reaching about 80,000 adults each year.[1] She has been associated with UCSD since 1972.[2]

Walshok was a co-founder of CONNECT and is credited with emphasizing its bottom-up organizational structure.[3] Much of her work focuses on the development of regional innovation clusters, drawing from her experience and connections within San Diego, particularly "how globalization and rapid changes in technology are affecting the social dynamics and economic challenges of regions across America."[1]

Publications

She has written chapters in several books and articles on education and the world of work. She has also written two books, Blue Collar Women, published by Anchor/Doubleday and Knowledge Without Boundaries: What America's Research Universities Can Do for the Economy, the Workplace, and the Community, published by Jossey-Bass in 1995.

In 2010, she co-authored Closing America's Job Gap, a business-management book about the disparity between the wealth of new jobs created by tech and the lack of trained people to fill them. It was published in 2011 by WBusiness Books, with copyright given to University of California Regents.

Awards

In May 2002, she was decorated with the rank of Knighthood, First Class, of the Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, "in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of entrepreneurship in Sweden".[4] She has earlier received a Kellogg Foundation national fellowship.

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References
  1. "SD 500: Mary Walshok". San Diego Business Journal. March 23, 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  2. "Mary Lindenstein Walshok - UC San Diego Extension". University of California, San Diego. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
  3. Kim, Sang-Tae; Jeong, Moon-Gi (2014). "Discovering the genesis and role of an intermediate organization in an industrial cluster: focusing on CONNECT of San Diego". International Review of Public Administration. 19 (2): 143–159. doi:10.1080/12294659.2014.915474.
  4. "Knighthood Awarded to Mary Lindenstein Walshok". Business Wire. May 1, 2002. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
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