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Peter von Allmen, professor of economics and business at Moravian College, will spend the upcoming academic year at Lafayette as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow.
The ACE Fellows Program prepares senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities by enabling participants to immerse themselves in the culture, policies, and decision-making processes of another institution. Fellows spend an extended period of time on another campus, working directly with presidents and other senior leaders to observe how they address strategic planning, resource allocation, development, policy, and other issues and challenges. The program condenses years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single year.
Von Allmen will shadow President Dan Weiss to learn about the work of the College, attending meetings and College functions to observe how Lafayette is organized and how the decision process works throughout the institution. He also will contribute to Lafayette’s new strategic plan.
“I am delighted that Peter von Allmen will join us in the coming year and look forward to the contribution of his expertise in the economics of sports to assist with athletics-related components of the new strategic plan,” says Weiss.
Each ACE Fellow also works on a focus project to benefit his or her home institution. Citing Moravian’s large number of relatively new faculty, von Allmen will focus on the time allocation challenge of junior faculty as they attempt to balance scholarship, teaching, service to the institution, and other commitments.
“I am thrilled to be coming to Lafayette,” says von Allmen. “I was already very familiar with Lafayette as a neighboring institution. I knew Lafayette has a great reputation for excellence in teaching, faculty research, and development of outstanding graduates. The additional information I learned while doing my own research before I was formally accepted into the ACE program convinced me that the leadership at Lafayette was doing a lot of things right to move the institution in a positive direction.
“After I was accepted and interviewed with President Weiss, I was even more interested in coming to Lafayette. He has a great sense of the institution, its place in higher education, its strengths, and the challenges that face Lafayette and other top liberal arts colleges in the United States. I am really looking forward to getting started; it should be a great year.”
A member of the Moravian faculty since 1990, von Allmen brings extensive experience in administration to Lafayette. He served as chair of economics and business for six years and chair of Moravian’s planning and budget committee for one year. He also has served on the new classroom building task force, faculty review committee, honors committee, information technology board, strategic planning committee, college advisory on planning and priorities, interdisciplinary majors committee, health care benefits review task force, January term committee, and faculty research and development committee.
He is co-author of the books The Economics of Sports, Economics, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics. He has published in the areas of family labor supply, competitive balance and league structure, compensation schemes in professional sports, and post-secondary pedagogy. Von Allmen has made 17 national conference presentations and served as a referee for Journal of Sports Economics and Journal of Economic Education.
He received his B.A. from College of Wooster and his Ph.D. from Temple University.
Founded in 1918, ACE is the nation’s unifying voice for higher education and serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives. By fostering greater collaboration and new partnerships within and outside higher education, ACE helps colleges and universities anticipate and address the challenges of the 21st century and contribute to a stronger nation and a better world. It’s members and associates are approximately 1,800 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education-related associations, organizations, and corporations.