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David Bills, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor Office: N446 LC College of Education University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Telephone:(319) 335-5366 E-mail: david-bills@uiowa.edu

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David Bills is a sociologist with interests in education and the workplace, labor markets, technological and organizational change, educational demography, and social inequality. He has been at the University of Iowa since 1985, and taught for three years before that at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology and is a faculty affiliate in the Literature, Science, and the Arts program.

Professor Bills is collaborating on a project with the National Center for Education Statistics and MPR Associates on the participation of adults in work-related education. He has served on the Technical Review Panel for the National Household Education Survey. He recently published The Sociology of Education and Work , as well as two edited volumes (one on the sociology of job training and the other a Festschrift for Archibald Haller). He is the editor of The New Modern Times: Factors Reshaping the World of Work (State University of New York Press, 1995.)

Bills served as the Chair of the Educational Policy and Leadership Studies (EPLS) Department from 1994-1999. He was the Iowa Director for the Midwest Sociological Society from 1997-1999 and chaired the Society's Publication Committee from 2003-2004. He serves on the editorial board of The Sociological Quarterly and Sociology of Education. He directed the Honors Program of the American Sociological Association from 1988-1994, is the past chair of the ASA's Committee on Undergraduate Education, and served on the ASA Task Force on Community Colleges. He is a member of the Regional Education Policy Research Consortium of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Professor Bills spent the Fall, 2003 semester at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) to collaborate on a project examining trends in the hiring and training practices of German and U.S. employers over the past twenty years.

Professor Bills directs the EPLS Computer Lab at the University of Iowa. His teaching interests include Educational Sociology, Education and Social Change, Demographic Techniques for Educational Research, Education and the World of Work , Education, Race, and Ethnicity, Gender and Education, and Sociological Perspectives on ducational Policy and Reform.

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