Economics at Community Colleges
NSF-sponsored initiative to enhance economic education at community colleges
Webinar with Dean Baker – Lessons of the Economic Crisis for the Principles Course
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Dean Baker, author of the weekly news commentary Beat the Press, and frequent commentator in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio, Join him for a discussion of the implications of the economic crisis for teaching introductory economics. Do economic principles help us understand what happened? Dean will present for 30 minutes and then allow 30 minutes for questions and discussion.
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Dean Baker, author of the weekly news commentary Beat the Press, and frequent commentator in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio, Join him for a discussion of the implications of the economic crisis for teaching introductory economics. Do economic principles help us understand what happened? Dean will present for 30 minutes and then allow 30 minutes for questions and discussion.
Economics at Community Colleges is an initiative to promote the use of innovative economic education resources by community college instructors. The project is co-led by Mark Maier, Glendale Community College (CA) and Cathryn Manduca, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College (MN).
National Meetings
The first-ever community college meeting at the AEA took place January 5, 2012. Summary of the issues discussed and an invitation to join upcoming projects available here (Microsoft Word 71kB Jan15 12) or email mmaier@glendale.eduIn June 2011 a workshop that brought together 20 economic educators to plan regionally-based outreach programs for community college instructors. The economic educators were joined by 8 experts from other disciplines that have already developed national outreach projects targeting community college instructors. To learn more about the workshop, check out the Workshop Agenda and Participants pages.
Regional Meetings
DC/Maryland/Virginia Economics instructors met January 21, 2012 for a conference on "Teaching Economic Principles." Alice Rivlin (former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Director of OMB and first director of the CBO) spoke to the group over lunch. Attendees are forming an ongoing regional group to plan future events. For more information contact Bruce Madariaga or John MinMidwest regional Economic instructors met November 3 – 4, 2011 at the St. Louis Federal Reserve's annual Professor's Conference. Participants had the opportunity to attend sessions demonstrating the use of innovative pedagogical practices from Starting Point:Teaching Economics. For more information on this conference and future plans contact Gail Hafer
As a baseline for future work, four regional surveys were conducted to ascertain the current state of community college economics instruction. Results from these surveys are presented.
Online instructionDo you teach online? Join a newly-started study group on teaching economics online. For more information contact Nelson Altamirano National University La Jolla, CA
Regional study groups:Seattle area: Contact James Peyton,Highline Community College Michigan: Contact Lisa Gloege, Grand Rapids Community College; Upstate New York: Rochelle Ruffer,
Nazareth College
Outreach Across Disciplines
Disciplines outside of Economics have also been working on the challenges and issues facing education at the two-year/community college level. Pages highlighting work done in other disciplines have been compiled with the help of the disciplinary experts who will be attending the workshop.
For more information, contact project co-principal investigator, Mark Maier
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under grant #1043245.
Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
