Dr. Jill Caviglia-Harris and her collaborators were recently awarded two grants totaling approximately $600,000 from the National Science Foundation and the CSWEP-SSRC Women in Economics and Mathematics Research Consortium for the project “Diversifying Economics in the Undergraduate Classroom: Plug and Play Video Modules with Diverse Role Models, Relevant Research, and Active Learning.” This project aims to improve economics education by developing and evaluating a classroom intervention for undergraduate principles of economics courses. The intervention builds on evidence from the STEM education literature that active, engaging instructional techniques, including those using media, improve student performance and provide even greater benefits to students from minoritized groups. The intervention which the team will create and evaluate is a series of “plug and play” modules featuring diverse economists discussing their timely and policy-relevant research. At the core of this intervention is a series of professionally produced videos with accompanying curricular materials. Student impacts will be measured using econometric analysis of pre and post surveys of the student participants and institutional data on their continuation in economics. Collaborators include Jose Fernandez (co-PI), University of Louisville; Jimena González Ramírez (co-PI), Manhattan College; Kim Holder (co-PI), University of West Georgia; Sarah Jacobson (co-PI), Williams College; and Luke Jones (co-PI), Valdosta State University.
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L. (forthcoming) “Opening the Gates: The Increasing Impact of Papers Beyond the Top Five and Other Changes in Economic Publishing,” Southern Economic Journal.
Dr. Memo Diriker recently attended the 2023 Atlantic Marketing Association Conference in Wilmington, NC. The abstract of the paper Dr. Diriker and his co-authors presented at the conference (“Using a Digital Marketing Simulation for Immersive Learning”) received the Best Abstract Award in the Social Media Marketing Track.
Shipper Co-Authors Paper for Rutgers-Oxford Employee Ownership Research Symposium
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CFP Board has completed review of the renewal application of the undergraduate program at Salisbury University titled, B.S., Finance – Financial Planning Track, and approve the renewal registration of our program.
The Financial Planning Track of the finance major, offered by the Economics and Finance Department, is registered with the CFP Board. In September 2002, this track became the first undergraduate degree program in financial planning to attain this distinction in the State of Maryland. Upon track completion, graduates will have met the educational requirement for the CFP® certification – the standard of excellence in financial planning. Completion of our program guarantees eligibility to sit for the CFP® certification exam without need for further transcript reviews.