Welcome the New Me!
New Center for Economic Education Director
A new academic year is around the corner and it brings new faces in new places!
Ryan Goss- CEE Director
Starting August 1, Ryan Goss started as the Director of the Center for Economic Education at Haile College of Business. If you know Ryan, then you will know that he has been committed to economic education at the local and national level.
Ryan taught AP economics at Campbell County High School. He has helped develop a strong pipeline of students that have influenced the Center for Economic Education as CEE Fellows. I am excited for the energy Ryan brings to economic education, to student mentorship, and to developing programs that benefit all of us.
Welcome to NKU, Ryan! Follow Ryan on Twitter @CCAPECON
My New Role!
As for me, I am excited to take on the role of Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the Haile College of Business. Our graduate programs has a strong team of program directors that I am excited to work with. If you are interested in graduate school, want the flexibility of online or hybrid education then consider our programs. We have three programs:
Masters of Accountancy (MACC)
Still Committed to Economics Education
On August 1, I also took on the new role of Executive Director of the Journal of Economics Teaching. If you are interested in economic education and instruction, you will want to get involved! We are always looking for paper submissions and new ideas on how to improve economics education.
New Year, New Start!
Good luck with the kickoff to your academic year. Make sure to celebrate each success and surround yourself with those that lift you up!
What excites you for the New Academic Year? As always, if I can help, reach out.
Congratulations on your new job, Abdullah. One question, although it's very early days: do you have any mixed feelings about the fact that there isn't an economics program at Haile?
You know, I am a 'de facto' director of the economics courses at my uni, but we don't have a major in our discipline (nor a masters program either). Though I definitely do not see it this way, I feel many students (of management, marketing, entrepreneurship, etc) see economics as a peripheral subject, not the centre of their attention and not up there in their list of interests. And I can't but think that it'd be different if I were teaching economics to students majoring in economics. I wouldn't need to "sell" them economics and in some sense that's what I do: try to let them discover how big the opportunity costs of their choice of major are :)
Do you share the feeling?
All the very best and keep it on!
Jose
Prof Jose Iparraguirre
Full Professor of Economics
German International University of Applied Sciences in Cairo, Egypt