Dear Members and Friends of the Harvard Club of New Jersey,

 

We would like to invite you to join us at our Annual Dinner and contribute to our J-Term Winternship for Harvard College students residing in New Jersey.  Our goal is to raise $12,000 to support eight Winternships.  The dinner details are below:

 

Harvard Club of New Jersey

Cordially Invites You to the:

119th Annual Dinner

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 6:30 pm

Basking Ridge Country Club

185 Madisonville Road

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

 

TWO Honored Guests and Speakers:

 

 

Jeh Johnson

Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017)

General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2009-2012)

General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1998-2001)

Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1989-1991)

 

Jeh Johnson is a 2021 recipient of The American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as “[a]n American statesman [who] has devoted his career to the public interest.” In public life, he served as Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017), General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2009-2012), General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1998-2001) and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1989-1991). In private law practice Secretary Johnson has been an experienced litigator and trial lawyer, and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

 

As head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Johnson was responsible for counterterrorism; cybersecurity; border, port, aviation and maritime security; enforcement and administration of immigration laws; response to national disasters; detection and prevention of nuclear, chemical and biological threats; and the protection of critical infrastructure and the nation’s leadership. Secretary Johnson is credited with building a more effective, cohesive Department of Homeland Security and with raising morale. He served as the public face of the U.S. government’s homeland security mission, engaging with the press on numerous occasions and testifying before Congress 26 times. Secretary Johnson managed 230,000 employees in 22 different components and agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secret Service.

 

 

 

William (Bill) Hughes

Harvard College AB

MIT Sloan School of Management SM

President and CEO, Education Design Lab

Title of Presentation:

Designing Learning to Work: The Shift to a Skills-Based Talent Economy 


Bill Hughes is the President and CEO of the Education Design Lab based in Washington, DC. The objective of the Education Design Lab is to co-design and build equitable, learner-centered approaches with colleges, universities, employers, foundations, and regions. Prior to joining the Lab, Bill was the founder and CEO of JobReady, formed in 2019 in partnership with the National Education Foundation, with the goal to reach the next million job seekers with world-class career skills training. He launched JobReady as a business of Open4 Learning, an ed tech-focused venture development and advisory firm. Previously, Hughes was chief strategy officer at Learning Objects, where he led its growth strategy, resulting in an acquisition by Cengage in 2015 and the migration of Cengage’s Ed2Go to the Learning Objects platform. Before that, he was vice president of Global Strategy and Business Development at Pearson, leading innovation, partnerships, and new ventures in postsecondary education. While there, he co-founded Intellus Learning (acquired by Macmillan), launched Pearson Writer (2015 product of the year), and oversaw the transformation of Pearson’s learning products into its flagship MyLab platform. Over the past 25 years, Hughes has held leadership positions at Sapient, Mercer, and the Cambridge Innovation Center. In addition, he was a member of the board of trustees of Kaplan University (now Purdue University Global). He currently serves as a board member of Berkshire Bank (NYSE: BHLB) and FineTune Learning. 

 

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We are pleased that this year’s Annual Dinner will be held at the Basking Ridge Country Club in an outdoor tent.  The cocktail hour (cash bar) will start at 6:30 pm, dinner will start at 7:30PM. There will be two guest lectures followed by a discussion with the audience.

The Annual Dinner is HCNJ’s primary fundraising event of the year. We hope you can contribute to our HCNJ Winternship Program when you RSVP or when you come to our dinner. Our Winternship Program provides $1,500 stipends for Harvard College students from NJ who work for NJ non-profit organizations during the “J-Term” which is a one-month period between Harvard’s fall and spring semesters. The program is extremely popular with our college students and provides them an opportunity to explore potential careers while giving back to their communities. The Club is proud to have supported six Winternships this past January 2023 and eight Winternships in January 2022. We hope you can give generously to this worthwhile program.


Annual dinner ticket prices are $100 for HCNJ members and their guests, new admits or current undergraduates and their parents; and $110 for non-members and their guests.


J-Term Winternship Support (tax deductible)
          - Sponsor ($1,000)
          - Patron ($500)
          - Benefactor ($250)
          - Friends (Any amount)

 

You can purchase dinner tickets, club membership and donate online at https://hcnj.clubs.harvard.edu/

If you have questions, please contact me at: fabian.chen.hcnj@gmail.com

Please make checks payable to Harvard Club of New Jersey. Ticket fees and donations can also be mailed to:

Fabian Chen

Vice President Harvard Club of NJ

3553 W Chester Pike #129

Newtown Square, PA 19073

 

Ticket sales have closed. We have a great turnout!