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For the past four years, Ed Gamber, associate professor of economics and business, has served on the Wall Street Journal Educational Advisory Board, advising publisher Dow Jones Inc. on programs to encourage professors to use the newspaper in classroom teaching. The board is comprised of about a dozen faculty in economics and business departments around the country.
Gamber has used The Wall Street Journal in his own teaching for the past 18 years.
“It is a great teaching tool,” he says. “By reading The Wall Street Journal every day, students see the real-world relevance of the economic theories they learn in class.”
Gamber also authors a weekly review of three current articles from The Wall Street Journal related to macroeconomics. The review, which includes five related questions for each article that professors can use on quizzes and tests, is emailed to hundreds of subscribers around the country.
Gamber presented “Using The Wall Street Journal in the Classroom” last November at the Academy of Business Disciplines Conference in Ft. Myers, Fla.
He is a frequent mentor to economics and business majors conducting original research, including Shreedhar Sasikumar ’05 (Kerala, India), David Watts ’04 (Endicott, N.Y.), and Craig Livoti ’04 (Scarsdale, N.Y.) this school year.
Coauthor of the Macroeconomicstextbook, Gamber received a National Science Foundation grant to establish a computer laboratory in quantitative economics. He serves on the Board of Editors for Eastern Economic Journal and was principal analyst in the Macro Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office from August 1996-August 1998.
He holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor’s degree from Towson University.